how much will i get for a disco minus engine? parts sold off etc...

[lightweight-love]

planning on sticking a 200tdi from a disco in my lightweight, either i get just the engine, or a whole vehicle cheap, mot failure, rust bucket etc, if i get whole vehicle how much do you think i could get for a disco minus the engine?
major things that sell?? gearbox etc? might be worth paying a bit more for a donor vehicle with electric seats etc????
also with whats left will scrappie take it?
Cheers for advice guys!

[Mareng]

If you buy a rust-bucket of a Disco and remove a good engine from it, you'll have removed its best selling point as a semi-complete vehicle, so you'd probably be better off taking off the good bits, like the seats, doors, wings, axles etc, and having the rest taken away by the scrap man.

Me and my cousin just did that with his RRC, all that was left was the chassis, body shell, axles, knackered engine and gearbox, and whatever else there was lying around when it was collected. 

[lightweight-love]

yeah thats what i mean't sorry wasnt clear, so any ideas what parts sell? and will scrap heap take left overs for free? or will they charge?

[Range Rover Blues]

Light iron scrap is £150 a tonne at the moment, they won't just takeit away mate you want to be asking them how much they'll pay you ;)

Just for fun ask them if they have a waste licence, many don't 8-[ but you should find loads in the loacl free adds that take scrappers away.

Look on flea bay for owt that sells, and in the wanted for bits people will readilly buy.  Keep a few bits that you might well need but don't hoard for the sake of it, weigh it in.

The LT77 isn't worth much unless it's very good/new, the T-box is worth some if it's good, the diffs about £30, the mirors £10, the doors you can't give away at the moment, the seats if they are leather will sell, grey is worth the most it seems.

P.S> take the ally off and weight that in yourself ;)

[Mareng]

From my cousins Rangie we kept the bits that would be usefull to us as spares, also keeping in mind that its the silly little things that you run out of (did you know that you dont get anti rattle plates with new brake pads now  :roll:)

We have got plenty of space to 'hoard' stuff though, so its not as if its all gonna get in the way, and if we should sell any of it to someone that needs it more than us, then so be it.

I think the scrap man that took the shell paid just £25 for what was left, which is probably fair, seen as I have just sold a complete Metro and a Corsa that had had a front end bump for £45 a piece.

[lightweight-love]

Good to know that, cheers for info guys! im off to prowl for disco's!

[Ja1983]

we weighed in a fiat uno - with a few bits of cack thrown in (old wheel barrow, lawn cuttings etc..) and got £108

fiat uno was the looser in the destruction derby we had prior to weighing it in!

best £30 i ever spent on a car!