Copart Salvage & Breakers
Discussion
Evening all,
Just a small enquiry to the PH massive. I've recently been on the hunt for a cheap SportKA that i'm needing for spares or possibly repair. Now, i've been recommended by a few friends that Copart is quite good when it comes to cheap(ish) salvage cars but i've not heard of them before. I know that there are a few complexities to salvage auctions but i'm not too sure how "genuine" Copart are.
Has anyone here ever dealt or had any experience with them? If so, did the process go smoothly and did all end well?
Here's a link to their site:
http://www.copart.co.uk/c2/home.html
It may be a long shot but thanks in advance.
Just a small enquiry to the PH massive. I've recently been on the hunt for a cheap SportKA that i'm needing for spares or possibly repair. Now, i've been recommended by a few friends that Copart is quite good when it comes to cheap(ish) salvage cars but i've not heard of them before. I know that there are a few complexities to salvage auctions but i'm not too sure how "genuine" Copart are.
Has anyone here ever dealt or had any experience with them? If so, did the process go smoothly and did all end well?
Here's a link to their site:
http://www.copart.co.uk/c2/home.html
It may be a long shot but thanks in advance.
Copart are probably the biggest salvage auction group, I've bought and sold cars through them, without a problem.
What you will have to remember is that they ARE aimed at the trade and you won’t get the fluffy treatment that you'd get from a retail operation.
IIRC it's about £50-60 per year to register as a buyer and you may have to provide proof that you’re a trade buyer IIRC I had to provide invoices / utility bills in the business name as part of the registration process.
You can’t just pop in to have a look around, you need to be registered, you need to wear hi vis and you will be escorted by a member of staff (stops people “doing a mulliner” and filling their pockets with parts) as the sites are so large, this tends to be in a rather dilapidated site car, you simply tell the driver which lanes/ cars you want to view and off you go
If you do buy from them, you’ll be expected to take the car away on a trailer, they don’t like people trying to do any remedial work on site, once you’ve got your paperwork sorted, they fetch the car to you on a fecking huge forklift and drops it onto your trailer / transporter
One last point is that you wont get the V5 immediatly, they tend to post it onto the invoice address with a copy of their invoice in the case of a cat d or x and you wont be able to get one until the cars passed a VIC check in the case of a cat C
Good luck, it can be a fun process
ETA: just noticed your from North Wales, in which case the centre at Sandycroft / Deeside (just round the corner from the GoKart track) may be your nearest, as its the one I've used half a dozen or so times, the process above will apply
What you will have to remember is that they ARE aimed at the trade and you won’t get the fluffy treatment that you'd get from a retail operation.
IIRC it's about £50-60 per year to register as a buyer and you may have to provide proof that you’re a trade buyer IIRC I had to provide invoices / utility bills in the business name as part of the registration process.
You can’t just pop in to have a look around, you need to be registered, you need to wear hi vis and you will be escorted by a member of staff (stops people “doing a mulliner” and filling their pockets with parts) as the sites are so large, this tends to be in a rather dilapidated site car, you simply tell the driver which lanes/ cars you want to view and off you go
If you do buy from them, you’ll be expected to take the car away on a trailer, they don’t like people trying to do any remedial work on site, once you’ve got your paperwork sorted, they fetch the car to you on a fecking huge forklift and drops it onto your trailer / transporter
One last point is that you wont get the V5 immediatly, they tend to post it onto the invoice address with a copy of their invoice in the case of a cat d or x and you wont be able to get one until the cars passed a VIC check in the case of a cat C
Good luck, it can be a fun process
ETA: just noticed your from North Wales, in which case the centre at Sandycroft / Deeside (just round the corner from the GoKart track) may be your nearest, as its the one I've used half a dozen or so times, the process above will apply
Edited by AndrewW-G on Tuesday 25th January 17:47
redtwin said:
I regularly check their site hoping to find something interesting to do up as a project, but if it is trade only (don't recall seeing that on the website) then I have been wasting my time.
T&C's here http://images.copart.com/website/data/graphics/cop...
No doubt if there was something you wanted, one of the trade members on here could help bypass the need to go through the trade application
You don't have to be trade, anyone can register and buy from them. But you have to have a breakers license to buy cat B's.
And I would definitely view the car in person before buying.
I think some yard will sell cat b's ready dismantled and keep the shell but not 100% on that.
And I would definitely view the car in person before buying.
I think some yard will sell cat b's ready dismantled and keep the shell but not 100% on that.
Edited by doggyt on Tuesday 25th January 18:21
my old crashed car went through them deffo worth a viewing and doing some homework on the car your after
mine was quite an expensive fix due to the high cost of the parts, i had the engineers report a buyer wouldnt of had have clue of the actual damage off photos, and the words they provided on the auction
mine was quite an expensive fix due to the high cost of the parts, i had the engineers report a buyer wouldnt of had have clue of the actual damage off photos, and the words they provided on the auction
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