When is enough enough?

[T84]

Hi guys,

Got a 2000 Focus which I've had for 2 years, had loads of problems with it including broken air con, a rotten quarter panel, etc

Today my front suspension appears to have collapsed, as the car now sits 2 inches lower than it did this morning, and makes a grinding noise whilst moving.

Just had LOADS of welding done at the MOT and was told I'll be lucky if it lasts a year due to a poor accident repair to the read quarter from before I bought it.

So obviously I don't want to spend money on a car which I'm never going to recoup it on!

I'm seriously considering selling it for parts, should I?

[STW2010]

Yes

[CraigyMc]

STW2010 said:

Yes

Hell Yes.

[Urban Sports]

Yes, sounds like it's worth feck all anyway, you may get more for it as parts.

[pat_y]

Yes, sounds like a total money pit, get shot asap.

[m3jappa]

sell it on ebay, its amazing the st people buy on there.

I can understand why though in some cases. I have sold a couple of work vans on there, totally fked, had a hard life and not worth anything, or at least imo anyway.

Well there are some people who for a living will buy a load of car/van parts etc and then buy old stters, put said parts on them and make a profit (it appears that way).

I sold those vans for far more than i imagined i would get.

A 2000 focus cant be worth much in parts can it? maybe worth doing an auction for it.

[T84]

Got a job interview tomorrow as well, ARGH.

Suggestions for a cheap banger, or has the scrappage scheme killed that market off?

Will a breaker give me better money than weighing it in?

[Eggman]

It's probably only a broken spring - if so, I reckon £30 and at most two hours of labour charges should fix that. If you are at all handy you could pick up a whole strut for £20 or so at the scrappy and swap it over in an afternoon.

[scdan4]

http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=bu...

500 quid, job done.

been trying to convince my old man to buy it, but he's set his heart on a crv.

[Acheron]

The second i knew i was driving an accident repaired car (espically one that has been described as a 'bad repair'), then that thing would be in more pieces than a jigsaw and on ebay in less than 5 minutes.

[cheadle hulme]

m3jappa said:

sell it on ebay, its amazing the st people buy on there.

I can understand why though in some cases. I have sold a couple of work vans on there, totally fked, had a hard life and not worth anything, or at least imo anyway.

Well there are some people who for a living will buy a load of car/van parts etc and then buy old stters, put said parts on them and make a profit (it appears that way).

I sold those vans for far more than i imagined i would get.

A 2000 focus cant be worth much in parts can it? maybe worth doing an auction for it.

Farmers or other people with land; buy a non runner and break it for spares. They have more space/time than you so its worth more to them. You'd be suprised how little they need to cannibalise to make a profit.