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Title: Scrapping Ralf... bits to keep/bits to throw advice
Post by: Webby the Bear on 28 August 2012, 21:58:53
Hey guys, hope you're all well and had a good bank holiday.  :y

I've had advice from you guys about scrapping the car (many thanks for that) and this will be done shortly.

However I got a lot of bits that have come off the car that I don't know what I should keep. The engine is the same 2.5v6 as in my good car so the parts swap over. So far I've kept all the nuts and bolts as I know for a fact they'll come in handy in the future.... already I've fixed my broken brake spreader tool with the minituare ''C'' clip from the cruise control  8)

I've also kept the dispac, ht leads and ICV for spares.

Anything else you reckon? I have the plenum off, the cam shafts out and just waiting to get some time to whip the drivers' head off so everything is accessable. I may keep the MAF as well actually while I think about it.

Anything else yuou reckon? If not the plenum and cam shafts are just being bunged in the boot when it goes.

Oh and the tyres have loadsa tread on so would love to save and possibly sell these if worthwhile but i dont know how that affects me when getting them to pick it up being on bricks lol

not looking to make money..,.... just want to keep hany bits and possibly give someone a nice set of alloys ifneeded  8)

Any advice would be wonderbra!  :y :y :y
Title: Re: Scrapping Ralf... bits to keep/bits to throw advice
Post by: aaronjb on 28 August 2012, 22:01:28
I had a car collected that was sat on it's belly - it was a pain in the arris as nobody had a hiab to come pick it up, so it got dragged up my (block paved) drive on trolley jacks and my giant chassis trolleys.. then dragged up the flatbed.

Keep everything that you can possibly unbolt? ;)
Title: Re: Scrapping Ralf... bits to keep/bits to throw advice
Post by: Elite Pete on 28 August 2012, 22:04:08
Remove the cats and weigh them in separately as they are worth about £60 each at the moment :y

Fuses, bulbs and relays always come in handy as well :)
Title: Re: Scrapping Ralf... bits to keep/bits to throw advice
Post by: Webby the Bear on 28 August 2012, 22:04:33
ok thanks aaron. theres obviously a lot of stuff that i cant keep and is crap.... drive belt, timing belt, water pump etc so tharts all good but its stuff like the plenum im wondering whether to keep or not.

do you reckon theyll take it without the wheels on? lol
Title: Re: Scrapping Ralf... bits to keep/bits to throw advice
Post by: Webby the Bear on 28 August 2012, 22:05:01
Remove the cats and weigh them in separately as they are worth about £60 each at the moment :y

Fuses, bulbs and relays always come in handy as well :)

cheers pete! good thinking!  :y
Title: Re: Scrapping Ralf... bits to keep/bits to throw advice
Post by: aaronjb on 28 August 2012, 22:09:12
If you can find someone with a hiab (crane on a flatbed) then wheels are inconsequential ;) Might take some ringing round, though, nobody round here had one :( Well.. nobody who'd scrap a car without the V5, anyway.

I wouldn't keep 'non mechanical' stuff like the Plenum - when is a plenum ever going to go wrong ;) but mechanical or electrical stuff that you know was good I'd be tempted to keep  :y
Title: Re: Scrapping Ralf... bits to keep/bits to throw advice
Post by: Webby the Bear on 28 August 2012, 22:25:05
brilliant, cheers aaron - ill do some ringing  :y

pure interest..... the tyres are 16" like on my good car. if i kept them, when its time to change tyre would somewhere take them off the old rim and plonk them on my good cars' rims?  :y
Title: Re: Scrapping Ralf... bits to keep/bits to throw advice
Post by: aaronjb on 28 August 2012, 22:26:08
Yeah - KwikFitup etc might say no, but a 'local' tyre place will do it for cash ;) cost me £40 last time..
Title: Re: Scrapping Ralf... bits to keep/bits to throw advice
Post by: Webby the Bear on 28 August 2012, 22:27:01
Yeah - KwikFitup etc might say no, but a 'local' tyre place will do it for cash ;) cost me £40 last time..

cheers mate  :y :y :y
Title: Re: Scrapping Ralf... bits to keep/bits to throw advice
Post by: Webby the Bear on 28 August 2012, 22:33:06
ooooh sorry just a quickie on a quickie  :D :D :D

when you replace tyres do the other numbers have to match up as opposed to just the rim sizes i.e.....

255/55/R16

?

 :y :y :y
Title: Re: Scrapping Ralf... bits to keep/bits to throw advice
Post by: symes on 28 August 2012, 22:53:59
yes it does matter-1st set of numbers is width 2nd is aspect ratio ie hight of sidewall
Title: Re: Scrapping Ralf... bits to keep/bits to throw advice
Post by: Webby the Bear on 28 August 2012, 23:04:01
yes it does matter-1st set of numbers is width 2nd is aspect ratio ie hight of sidewall

ok cool thanks... so they have to be same size. got ya  :y
Title: Re: Scrapping Ralf... bits to keep/bits to throw advice
Post by: albitz on 28 August 2012, 23:24:10
Follow the truck to the scrappy and remove the wheels before they weigh it in. :y
Title: Re: Scrapping Ralf... bits to keep/bits to throw advice
Post by: Webby the Bear on 29 August 2012, 12:31:46
Follow the truck to the scrappy and remove the wheels before they weigh it in. :y

good idea. cheers albus  :y :y :y
Title: Re: Scrapping Ralf... bits to keep/bits to throw advice
Post by: cem_devecioglu on 29 August 2012, 15:18:47
 ::)
here , we would leave nearly nothing ;D
 
all sensors (maf, lambda, throttle position, crank,cam, knock, coolant temperature)
most body parts ( boot, hood, front wings , doors)
head-tail lights (related elecrtonic parts)
engine (crank, pistons, heads , lifters)
injectors
ECU
steering pump
fuel tank, fuel pump
most parts on the front drive train
differential
shaft
 
bumpers
door cards, windows switches , chairs
sunroof motor
roof cover
front panel
rear curtain
mirrors
etc etc ;D
 
you asked ;D :y
Title: Re: Scrapping Ralf... bits to keep/bits to throw advice
Post by: omega3000 on 29 August 2012, 16:13:19
Was going to say the interior has to be worth a few bob with door cards  :-\
Title: Re: Scrapping Ralf... bits to keep/bits to throw advice
Post by: cem_devecioglu on 29 August 2012, 16:20:50
those parts in total will cost x times the price of an omega here.. and the cheapest one costing 4k£ ;D
 
obviously car breakers here are unbelivably rich >:(
Title: Re: Scrapping Ralf... bits to keep/bits to throw advice
Post by: omega3000 on 29 August 2012, 16:25:14
those parts in total will cost x times the price of an omega here.. and the cheapest one costing 4k£ ;D
 
obviously car breakers here are unbelivably rich >:(

Wondered why so few omega's on the road here  ;D all being shipped out to turkey  :-\  ;D not any p/f ones in my breakers and only one f/l  :(
Title: Re: Scrapping Ralf... bits to keep/bits to throw advice
Post by: cem_devecioglu on 29 August 2012, 17:07:13
those parts in total will cost x times the price of an omega here.. and the cheapest one costing 4k£ ;D
 
obviously car breakers here are unbelivably rich >:(

Wondered why so few omega's on the road here ;D all being shipped out to turkey  :-\ ;D not any p/f ones in my breakers and only one f/l  :(

you may have right.. although not in Turkey , close countries in Europe may use them..
Title: Re: Scrapping Ralf... bits to keep/bits to throw advice
Post by: TheBoy on 29 August 2012, 18:19:25
Hmmm, TB ponders a midnight visit to Northampton to strip bits off a car  :-X
Title: Re: Scrapping Ralf... bits to keep/bits to throw advice
Post by: omega3000 on 29 August 2012, 18:26:18
Hmmm, TB ponders a midnight visit to Northampton to strip bits off a car  :-X

Nights are getting darker  :-X




 ;D
Title: Re: Scrapping Ralf... bits to keep/bits to throw advice
Post by: Webby the Bear on 30 August 2012, 17:29:38
haha some very funny replies. ;)

i've checked the size of the tyres and they are all 225/55/R16. However on ralf AND my good car there is a single tyre with a 95 load rating. and the rest are 90. should this ideally be the same as well?

obviously in reality its not affecting driving so i assume not. but just wondered what you girls thought  :-*
Title: Re: Scrapping Ralf... bits to keep/bits to throw advice
Post by: TheBoy on 30 August 2012, 20:35:35
haha some very funny replies. ;)

i've checked the size of the tyres and they are all 225/55/R16. However on ralf AND my good car there is a single tyre with a 95 load rating. and the rest are 90. should this ideally be the same as well?

obviously in reality its not affecting driving so i assume not. but just wondered what you girls thought  :-*
I would say 90 is a bit low for the Omega :o.  What does the manual say?
Title: Re: Scrapping Ralf... bits to keep/bits to throw advice
Post by: Lazydocker on 30 August 2012, 20:42:19
haha some very funny replies. ;)

i've checked the size of the tyres and they are all 225/55/R16. However on ralf AND my good car there is a single tyre with a 95 load rating. and the rest are 90. should this ideally be the same as well?

obviously in reality its not affecting driving so i assume not. but just wondered what you girls thought  :-*
I would say 90 is a bit low for the Omega :o.  What does the manual say?
I look for 94 plus, generally 97 Extra Load (but each to their own) :-\