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Ever wanted to know where the cars went though the scrappage scheme?

3K views 12 replies 11 participants last post by  D4N13L 
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Haha, before they go to Ghana or Nigeria!

We were up at U Pull It today speaking to a few guys, it's amazing what goes on the secret world of scrap! Today 2 Nigerian men (with a **** load of wonga in a bag!) were loading a shipping container full of engines and mechanical parts. Apparently they have massive lists of things needed to make scrap cars road worthy again!
 
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There is no logic, we paid for every one of those even if you didn't want to, would make more sense to strip each one and sell the spare but that'll end up saturating the market for spares and defeating the point of bringing back jobs to uk companies, I reckon teh government should donate a certain amount of cars to breakers yards to boost trade.

I don't see why they won't reissue the V5s and auction off anything that'll sell! Surely that'd generate a bit more cash than the scrap value! A lot of people would be very grateful for some of they cars!
the idea of scrappage was because people were doing that and new car sales were down, jobs lost etc would make literally no sense flooding the market with these after spending £1000 a pop on them to boost sales of new cars.

are we 100 % certain that these cars are all from the scrappage scheme and not car that are removed from the road for no tax ect, i must see at least 10 trucks a week on the a1 with two car on each with a big sticker on the front, no tax ???
taxless cars get crushed pretty sharpish nowadays as no-one wants to pay storage costs, hence why these are all dumped on un-used government property.
 
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Perhaphs the car makers are making (manufacturing) far too many cars than we need, hence the showrooms are full of unsold new cars and car factories and workers are laid off, and if you look at the housing side of things, there aren't many houses for new couples who wants to start a new life in a new home, so the limited supply of afforadable homes, the prices are climbing sky high to the point that no first time buyers are able to affoard them until they reach middle age!!

so our stretegy is wrong, we need to re-train car workers to start building houses, this will drive the house prices low so everyone could then affoard new homes and have garages attached, then perhaps then people can affoard to buy new cars if they have more money in their pocket rather than to pay unafforadable rents and mortgages, this is where the root of the problem is, our ecconomy is driven by housing market!!
 
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