East Coast Salvage

[RLK500]

Anyone have any experience with the above. A colleague at work is contenmplatign making a purchase from them.

TIA

[Martin F]

Be interested to see if there is any feedback on this one, because looking around their yard was enough to put me off.

Lots of cars sat their with flat tyres, dirty, mildew growing on them etc. I think buying from them really would be a case of 'sold-as-seen' (not that it's ever much different)

[JRM Rossi]

There was a bit in the local paper last week try google & braintree&witham times, keep your eyes open & have a good look over the cars

[Martin F]

JRM Rossi said:

There was a bit in the local paper last week try google & braintree&witham times, keep your eyes open & have a good look over the cars

Hmmmm good spot http://www.braintreeandwithamtimes.co.uk/archive/2...

Not really suprised.

[JRM Rossi]

The company name says it all just go with your eyes open ?

[RLK500]

Thanks chaps. Info duly noted and passed on.

[Gallen]

I once wondered in to their "sales yard" and thought I had mistakenly found myself in a closed down scrap yard, with only the dregs left.

[V8mate]

They always seem to want top money for their cars, yet they tend to stock the imperfect/higher mileage end of the market.

Or do people just fall for the 'THE CHEAPEST EX LEASE, COMPANY AND CONTRACT VEHICLES IN THE UK' at face value?

[dockertrigger]

I took these photos a year ago before they opened the new yard by the owners house up the road, As far as I'm aware all this stuff is still there and up for sale, I used to watch them move cars about by folk lift years ago, I wouldn't buy a newspaper of them let alone a car personally.

Much of the stuff has no service history, flat balding tyres, no keys or batteries, they take parts of one car and put them onto another when they sell them, most are high mileage with loads of damage, The gamble is too high for the savings involved.

http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=7869726@N02&q=...

[confused_buyer]

Most of the stuff in the newer yard is ex. lease direct from auction. Basically, anything a bit leggy or goes cheap in the Tuesday auction at Manheim up the road ECS buy. It is picked up Tuesday afternoon, photographed as it is unloaded and on their website by Tuesday evening.

In that sense they are no different to any other dealer but don't expect much prep and pay accordingly.