Breaking...

What you breaking?

I've not done it myself but have observed that:

• it's much easier to dismantle accident damaged than
  rusty
• it's the bit that killed your car that
  everyone wants
• there's a market for the very rare
  or very common not the inbetweens

Oh dear, GT is way too good to break Duncan.

It may figure out to be over 6K in parts but actually getting all of those parts sold is the tricky bit. Ok all of your rare parts and nice morcels will sell no prob, but you'll be left with all the left overs. Do you really want to ad another scrapped shell to the GT Register??

It'd be a sad day if you broke GT.

Webdunk wrote: Well since the 4000+ views of my ad have generated exactly 0 enquiries then breaking the GT is beginning to look like an option - initial sums suggest well north of £6k is doable - which is about triple the trade-in price anyone is likely to offer...

Nooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

Have you advertised on PH?   

I'll pimp your ad shamelessly when you do.

Webdunk wrote: Been on the market for getting on for 8 weeks fluffy. All of em on PH. PH is in fact the 2nd largest referrer to the Register this month which I suspect relates to one of your posts. Loads of interest - no sponduliks it would appear.

Surely better to keep running it or cutting the price
than breaking it...

Webdunk wrote: http:// www.pistonheads.com/sales/2533479.htm

I'll get pimpin'   

Dunc,
I have to agree with the guys, it's not a wise move to break. It seems a great idea on paper but in reality you will be left with half a car that could take you a lifetime to sell the parts from.
My mate used to do this as a business and unless you've got proper facilities to strip the car and store the parts then rule this out.

It really is far too nice a car to break and I'm sure someone will be along soon with 6+K that you're looking for

Dude man, no don't do it. Apart from the technicalities
of having to get rid of the fluids and stuff, there's the
storage issues someone living in a flat might have. I
know you could use your Dad's, or Rory's place but I've
just trying to put you off really.

I've posted in a couple of places I use over in NI for
you. I know you'd posted on bmw-driver.net, I use a
couple of others in the North too.

wanted-swap/147464-fs-friends-m3-gt.html#post2040643">RMS
Post
NI
BMW Forum

There is another Forum I 'browse but don't post' but it's
full of scummers that attract folk from Falkirk!


I just know even before I hit 'Post Reply' that Google
Chrome is going to shaft my links above...

Pete330 wrote: Christ if you are only going to get 6k breaking,then Who wants to go half with me on the car

Like your thinking Pete... £6k is the pessimistic estimate and leaves a LOT of (standard E36) parts unaccounted for.

Big Stuff wrote: Old Colonel Cars, WLN and Munich Legends to see if any of them would facilitate a commision sale.

I had been wondering about that in the context of 4StarClassics...

It would be a shame to break it.

Out of the other 31 cars on the road, what have they sold for?  Is 8k a fair price for it? 

Andrew Rolland wrote: Out of the other 31 cars on the road, what have they sold for?  Is 8k a fair price for it?

In my opinion, it's undervalued at £8k - sadly that's just my opinion.

Less well kept cars have gone for £6500-£7500 so £8000 doesn't feel in any way outrageous.

As I said, my pessimistic sums suggest £6k+ broken so how much more is a car worth whole than in bits?

2 other GT owners have been in touch letting me know they have agreed insurance valuations north of £11k.

Gary has suggested that the UK is obsessed with age/mileage rather than condition; I reckon that's a factor.