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Post by WDB on Mar 3, 2017 11:26:40 GMT
Checking the expiry date of the E's MoT this morning, I thought I'd put in the details of my old Volvo S60. Some here will remember that I had this car from new in October 2002 to the day I replaced it with a BMW in May 2015.
It no longer has an MoT or even a virtual tax disc. Tax expired in January 2016, the MoT in June, suggesting it was bought at auction by a dealer, who MoT'd it and sold it on in July. The buyer taxed it for six months before - I'd guess - discovering that it really needed a new turbo to be its proper self again, and deciding that £1,500 was too much to spend on a car that was worth half that and wasn't even the known quantity that it was to me.
So it's gone. Should I be sad that it served me so well and is no more, or pleased that I got my full money's worth out of it and moved it on at the right time?
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Post by Alanović on Mar 3, 2017 11:50:08 GMT
Both. And a bit of feeling sorry (but not guilty) for the poor sod who has bought the car and had to scrap it.
I have of late noticed far fewer S60s and S80s of that generation on the roads. I expect they've hit peak extinction point for exactly the reason yours has carked it.
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Post by WDB on Mar 3, 2017 12:38:04 GMT
Yes, certainly some sympathy for the buyer - although I doubt they'd have paid more than about £1,200 for the car and expect they got £400 or so for it as scrap. So as long as the car was usable for most of those six months they didn't lose out too badly.
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Post by Alanović on Mar 3, 2017 12:53:52 GMT
Are scrappers worth that much at the moment? I got diddled for the old SAAB last spring if a scrapper is £400. Maybe it's changed since then.
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Post by WDB on Mar 3, 2017 13:24:51 GMT
Sorry, no idea - that was a bit of a wild guess based on the various online offers I got for the Volvo. I rather assumed the low ones were based on its value as metal rather than motor.
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Post by dixinormus on Mar 3, 2017 20:05:34 GMT
Dream on WdB. Aren't scrapyards paying barely 40 quid a ton or some similarly low rate these days?!
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Post by Ted on Mar 3, 2017 23:07:05 GMT
I don't know what the price is now but we had the scrappie going round our roads with his loudspeaker last week. Not seen them for months. I was putting a new front door and frame in so I was able to flag him down and ask him to pop back in half an hour...which he did. I gave him a load of old scaffolding tower sections that have been cluttering up the yard for a few years plus an old bike and some scrap steel tubing which I won't use.
I asked him if he was a traveller and he said he was. He was happy to chat for a while about his life....he was a nice guy and very interesting. His Transit was full up to the top of the ' greedy boards ' when he left.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2017 0:58:53 GMT
What mileage was it on?
My old S60 54 plate has a valid MOT from Sept. 2016 @150k with no advisories. I traded it in 2013. SV54XSA if you want to look up its MOT history, the fail in 2009 was due to a satnav being in the swept area.
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Post by WDB on Mar 4, 2017 8:09:31 GMT
Mine was somewhere in the 140s, BPG. It passed its June 2015 MoT but was not re-taxed six months later, hence my suspicion that it was the engine rather than an MoT failure that finished it off.
Remarkably, our former Skoda Fabia, one of the first in the UK, now 17 years old and with the slow and thirsty old Skoda MPi engine that was plagued with coolant leaks in the seven years we kept it, is still out there with a fresh MoT. It's not reached 50,000 miles yet, so I can only guess what it's being used for but I'm astonished it's still going at all.
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Post by Alanović on Mar 6, 2017 9:46:15 GMT
Was that your S60 being vandalised with a pressure washer on Top Gear last night, WDB?
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Post by WDB on Mar 6, 2017 10:13:22 GMT
Haven't seen it. Quick scan suggests there was a V70 in it somewhere.
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Post by Alanović on Mar 6, 2017 11:55:39 GMT
Small cameo part for a dark blue S60 getting trashed also, unrelated to the V70 item.
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Post by WDB on Mar 6, 2017 12:23:32 GMT
That would be Nordic Blue; mine was Scarab Green.
Suggests your hypothesis has merit: that a lot have passed the tipping point lately. V70s, being estates, probably have more (perceived) enduring utility, so owners are more likely to keep them going, even if the repair bills are the same as for an S60.
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