Hi
I've often seen the question asked about how do you get rid of your donor vehicle shell once you have removed the parts that you want, and i
thought i would share my experience of how i've just got rid of my sierra shell.
I bought a Sierra XR4X4 and removed the bits i wanted, Rear axle, front brakes, steering column, propshaft and wiring harness. I sold off some bits i
didn't want, Gearbox, engine, front driveshafts, interior & dashboard.
I was then left with a shell, with bonnet boot and doors and little else, I borrowed a friends 4 wheel car trailer and took it to the local scrap
metal merchant (J&J Stanley of Salwell), be clear this is not a dismantler and the car was lifted from the trailer straight into the crusher.
The surprising bit is that i got £46 for it, I must confess that i had thrown some other bits of scrap into the boot of the shell off, but even so
it's better than the stories of people having to pay to get rid of their shells.
BTW a scrap merchant pays according to the weight of the scrap and the price fluctuates, also you must remove or cut a big hole in the fuel tank and i
saw a notice in their office that tyres must be removed.
Hope this helps
Frank
You did well with that. A bloke i work with just weighed in a whole van for scrap. He drove it there with his bike in the back weighed it in and
rode his bike home. £40 he got for it so your 46 just for he shell was good.
Its the best way of doing it but you need means of getting it to the scrapper.
I think the scappers get a good price for steel these days cos its mostly going to China. Along with a lot of our manufacturing jobs!
so did you take the uprights off before you put it on the trailer? i was wondering whether to take the wheels and uprights of mine before it goes to the scrappy, it means i need to get a scrappy with a lifter, which i dont think is that easy.
I should think most if not all scrappys have a way of unloading a shell, i've had a forklift straight through the side windows and a grab for
another. Took a completly stripped sd1 shell and got £34 for that.
Dave.
Uprights were removed, as was complete rear beam (I then cut through the trailing arms and unbolted the diff for speed and chucked it inside the
shell)
My 13 year old son and i loaded it onto the trailer by lifting it as high as we could on axle stands, then lifting the front as high as we possibly
could and putting a prop under the trans tunnel. We then reversed the trailer beneath the front of the shell and then lowered it onto a trolley jack,
lifted the rear of the shell and rolled it forward onto the trailer then lowered it and strapped it down. Only tools used were trolley jack, axle
stands, wooden blocks and muscle power.
In terms of the price that i got for it I expected to get about £20 for it and was pleasantly surprised (delighted) by the amount received. I accept
that I have the advantage of access to a large trailer, alternatively you could cut the shell up and take it in sections, but this would be
awkward.
Also i would recommend taking your shells to a proper scrapyard with a weighbridge, they weigh you going in, then coming out and pay according to the
weight that you've offloaded, some smaller yards just take a guess at the weight.
Regards
Frank
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Also i would recommend taking your shells to a proper scrapyard with a weighbridge, they weigh you going in, then coming out and pay according to the weight that you've offloaded, some smaller yards just take a guess at the weight.
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Originally posted by joneh
You could ask to use the toilet whilst you're there and see if you get any extra!
Also make the son do the same. Or just sneak him out the back door and get his weight back too. Or even better, take one of your son's fat
mates.
We sold ours on e-bay after we'd stripped it and got £110 for it. Apparently the guy who bought it only wanted the gearbox for his rally car.
Just a case of being in the right place at the right time I guess. The wheels were sold separately for £50.
The complete car only cost us £125.