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battrooper
 


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Scraping new vehicles. Why???

Earlier today I found myself in a long queue of trucks trying to tip scrap metal at EMR in Liverpool docks.
As I waiting I noticed three or four car transporter trucks passing us by. All had brand new Jaguars with one or two Discovery 4s on them. All had their factory stickers con the windows so all brand new.
Upon tipping my load of scrap I was on the weighbridge and spotted these transporters in a different part of the yard.
To my complete horror, they were scrapping the cars!
They were been taken off the trucks. A guy fiddled with something under the bonnet, battery I was thinking, then the grab machine bashed in the side panels and drove down the roof. The car was then picked up and stacked along with the others. I could of cried. Why do this to brand new cars?
The place was that busy I had no time for photos or video but I seen a lovely black D4 trashed as I drove off.
Any ideas as to why this would be done???
  
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L319
 


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None type approval conforming vehicles or too many faults to repair.
  
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Compusmentis
 


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Development cars with no vin or not homolgated / CE compliant, so have to be scrapped perhaps...?
 New gearbox & TC, 3 x front wheel bearings, belts changed, new oil pump, new battery, new rear prop, new front prop, new front diff, front arb refurbed, front cv boot kit, egr blank and BAS software patch, full rear suspension / drivelive rebuild, new front arms, LED trailer light fix, split charge.
Never had a 107, 90 or 127, but have had most of the rest! 
 
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OMG Shocked Why take them to EMR they pay Censored prices Whistle

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Quite common for car manufacturers to scrap development cars. I know Lotus used to shred the development cars, they looked ok, but were not quite the same as production cars.
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Well known military resale site had about 10 no G Wagens that were due the same treatment as they were ex diplomat vehicles and were authorised for crushing......least that what I was advised upon my enquiry. Censored
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defector
 


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Decadent west at it's worst.
Every bit would somehow be recycled in a third world country.
  
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I have been told that there is a very expensive scrap yard at Gaydon,
and that wheels were removed with very little test mileage on them then drilled straight through the tyre and wheel
  
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Compusmentis
 


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30 years ago, a lot of LR vehicles went to Peter Hobson near Louth to be broken for parts. I don't imagine that is still the case...
 New gearbox & TC, 3 x front wheel bearings, belts changed, new oil pump, new battery, new rear prop, new front prop, new front diff, front arb refurbed, front cv boot kit, egr blank and BAS software patch, full rear suspension / drivelive rebuild, new front arms, LED trailer light fix, split charge.
Never had a 107, 90 or 127, but have had most of the rest! 
 
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Our very own government have recently scrapped 9 perfectly good Nimrod MRA4's and they never batted an eyelid. Rolling Eyes

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buffalo4 wrote:
I have been told that there is a very expensive scrap yard at Gaydon,
and that wheels were removed with very little test mileage on them then drilled straight through the tyre and wheel


Seen that ...everything involved in testing \ development has to be destroyed Thumbs Up

Whole motors though are unusual unless involved in crash testing \ mules ...if fully furnished there's the possibility they were involved in total flood loss ? Confused
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Wasn't there a car transport ship that capsized recently while full of JLR vehicles? Could it be those cars being scrapped?
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From the title I thought this thread was about new cars getting keyed!
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They are scrapped because they get tax relief on their expenditure, as part of research and development. So they can't sell any of it.
  
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