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[chrisgixer]

If you are seriously up sh!t creak, I do know where there is a silver 3.2 spare   

Guessing you need it next week?

Think taking a jack down there, it would just dig into the soft mud. 

Two quite bright people and not a braincell between you

Use a boot carpet from another car to put under the jack, it will sink a little but you're talking two bolts and a pair of snips/hacksaw on the brake line. Once the car is a bit off the ground use either a spare wheel or an inlet manifold under the trailing arm

That site is a nightmare to be fair. They dump them in a huge half water logged field. Anything on the bottom of the car then becomes inaccessible. They arrange them side on so can't even get a tractor under them to lift them up. If their open.

[tunnie]

Boot carpet, ha! You walk through that scrappy, you can stand on a Mondeo bonnet that's sunk in, just because someone has stepped on it!

The ground is super, super soft. Wellies a must.

[05omegav6]

Fair dos... the only alternative that I can offer is driving it gently down here

[TheBoy]

If I can't free it off in the next couple of hours, a plan B is forming.

[pauls]

Al if you can get the spare one to me i can run it upto tb if needed.

[Andy H]

How is it that the place is still trading?

The scrappies I used to go to all told me that they were being forced to lay concrete to be able to demonstrate that vehicle fluids (oil/antifreeze/acid) weren't able to soak into the soil and contaminate the groundwater.

[05omegav6]

Al if you can get the spare one to me i can run it upto tb if needed.

Currently on crutches

[tunnie]

How is it that the place is still trading?

The scrappies I used to go to all told me that they were being forced to lay concrete to be able to demonstrate that vehicle fluids (oil/antifreeze/acid) weren't able to soak into the soil and contaminate the groundwater.

There is a 'proper' scrap section, concrete formed, weigh bridge and such, with big machines to munch it all up.

Next door is the field where the cars sit, the ground is feked. It's full of car bits, you walk between them there are countless bits of bodywork, oils, fluids, metals, fabrics, you name it.

[TheBoy]

How is it that the place is still trading?

The scrappies I used to go to all told me that they were being forced to lay concrete to be able to demonstrate that vehicle fluids (oil/antifreeze/acid) weren't able to soak into the soil and contaminate the groundwater.

The pikeys that run it (thankfully) mostly ignore 'elf and safety

They have relented slightly in the last year or so, they now blow all airbags and remove fluid reservoirs

[Sir Tigger KC]

You can always guarantee that when going to a scrappy for wheel/brake/suspension parts that the car you need is sat in the mud with two others perched on top!!