most proffitable cars to break?

[Biggss2]

Whatever rental you can pick up for 500quid that didn't make it back to the hire company.. Lol

[K7ERG]

Evos subarus

Audi a4 b5 is also a good breaker and cheap to buy.

I thought about doing this a while back but when I stripped the s6 and s4 not one was buying.

My idea was to buy a car from u pull it. Few £££, Break the car on site and fill van/ trailer with parts. Then ebay, gumteee and forums.

[s2_bo]

You need a lot of space to do this. For storage of parts. And you have to be able to sell things very cheap to get shot of them if they are hanging around. The best thing is work out your running costs then work out how much you would need to make on each car. Depending on how quickly you can brake them.

When I did my s2 and s4 there was not many other people doing it so parts sold quite fast. But that seams to have changed recently as more and more people are breaking over selling. It makes sense from a economical point of view.
When I broke the s8 I bearly broke even on what I paid for it so that was 3 or 4 weeks of unpaid work. S8 parts are cheap and not that sought after. The shell weights just over 300kg and at 500kg/tone for irony alloy its not as good as some people think. It's also a hell of a lot of work stripping the looms. It took me around 30 hours to remove all the looms. And I practically gave them away with the rest of the parts in the end because I had no storage. Very fustrating.

In general it's an easy way to make money IMO.. But living where I do makes it impossible for now.

I guess your best bet is to buy a car or two and see how you go..
Good luck anyhow

[Acidburn]

pete id normally agree but i have done very well on my s2 im breaking,ive only been removing parts on the odd saturday etc the good news is i have time on my side,decent redundancy deal(12 years service)....oh and the mrs could afford to keep us both going
my plan is to try it for 3 months and see how it goes

Trust me, it does not work like that everytime, i've got a s2 avant in bits atm and still got stuff kicking around. I do it when i'm not at work or when mates are around and want to help out or want bits but the novalty (spl) wears off quite quickly. I still have a proper job so at the end of the month I definately have some money coming in as without that things could go wrong quickly.

Another problem is as mentioned, everyone is getting into doing it now as they think there is quick money in it, this has pushed prices down on stuff as i'm sure you've noticed. You're bumper you was selling for £180 when I last saw, if you go back around a year's time that same bumper would have been snapped up at £250+

There are various cars that are worthwhile breaking but it depends on how cheap you get them, how cheap you can post out stuff and how much interest there is in the bits. The cabriolets that people mentioned are not bad, if its a late model then the bumper/fogs, headlights, boot lid, rear bumper and roof would sell reasonably quickly, rest not so much. 10v engine's I think i've only ever sold one and that was from my own car that I started breaking around a year ago and literally weighed in the last of the shell at around 7am this morning and for what I got for the shell was not a lot.

If your lucky and get a unit the same size as mine (can get around 6 or more cars inside) for cheap rate then its worth it for storage at the least, just make sure its secure, mine was broke into when I first got it within a week so we sorted out some better security but with the price of scrap etc i've heard quite a few forum members saying people are trying everything atm, i've had people around asking for metal and battery's etc lately.

I've broke a couple of vw passat b5's now and they do break reasonably depending what they cost in the first place, prices have dropped on them making them reasonable canididates and ukpassats websites quite good for getting interest.

s4 v6's also are worth looking at providing you get it cheap.

Keep us updated with how you get on and good luck with it

[CoupeWannabeS2]

As a slight alternative, what about vehicles other than cars? I sold various motorcycle engine parts from a donor bike engine. It has been fairly profitable, but I dont have any overheads as its more of a hobby.

Motorcycles dont take up much space, so storage is not such an issue. There might also be a market for things like jet ski's, quad bikes, ride on lawn mowers etc.

[willg54]

As a slight alternative, what about vehicles other than cars? I sold various motorcycle engine parts from a donor bike engine. It has been fairly profitable, but I dont have any overheads as its more of a hobby.

Motorcycles dont take up much space, so storage is not such an issue. There might also be a market for things like jet ski's, quad bikes, ride on lawn mowers etc.

on the note of bikes, if you lookout for bikes with good races engines like the yamaha r6, they go for good money! sidecar races etc will snap them up instantly and are hard to get hold of

[Colesy]

it depends on how cheap you get them

I broke a URS4 which I picked up locally very cheap, probably sold £1.5-2k of parts, although this was quite high as it had a lot of options on it. I still have a lot of parts which will probably end up going to the tip. It's been a slow process shifting everything. The engine is fully paid up for as of last week and is now waiting for collection. - it's been 8 months since sale was agreed. I've looked at getting in other cars but when you do the sums the margins are pretty low. Especially if you have to drive 100's of miles to go and get it.

So as Acidburn says, getting them cheap is the main thing.

[niall4313]

I have a bunch of audis here and advertise regularly, I would say 90% of the calls I get are timewasters for whatever reason, I had a guy call me recently looking for a fan belt for an audi 80 . I always thought breakers yards must make a mint, but our local yard has six people full time answering the phones and I often wonder what percentage of those calls actually end in a sale.

[K Simmonds]

Some good advice there from other members.

There's money to be made from just about any vehical so long as the purchase price is low enough.

The following break very well, and are pretty much what I stick to

Audi B3/4 Coupes, any model but late V6's are best.

Audi B2 quattro's, all models.

Corrado's, G60's and VR6's are best.

MK II Golfs, obviously the return is better from GTi's but all model are worth considering.

There are dozens more cars that break well, as has been mentioned late models that there a lot of in current usage are always a safe bet, of course a little depends on what you have to pay for them.

As Acidburn rightly points out the novelty factor soon wares off.

Anyway I was chatting to another member via PM regarding breaking a car so here are the top breaking tips I gave him.

1, Sell the interior first then use the car as a scrap metal skip to bump it's weight up for scrap value. Chuck anything in, cookers, fencing, etc as long as it's mostly metal.

2, The stuff that's worth the most are parts either damaged easily in a bump, so, headlights, wings, bumper, slam, rad etc. Or stuff that breaks or wares out quickly, so, switches, motor, window mechs, clocks, sun-roof mechs etc.

3, Copper is worth so much now that it's worth ripping the loom out and weighing it in by itself, EMR should class it as house hold cable which is around 1600 a Ton at the mo. Just make sure your remove all the connectors. Gypos, burn the insulation off, but you really need a lot of looms before this is worth the hassle and it's not very environmentally friendly. Chuck any old house hold cable you have in with your loom to get the weight up. I got 80 quid for the loom out of that V6 with about the same amount again of sparkys tails from a building job my farther is doing.

4, Don't sling any electrical motor/alternators in with you general metal scrap, weight them in separately, you should get around 2,800 a Ton for them. From bloody great industrial motors, right down to washer motors you'll get the same price. Last time I took a load of stuff in I got 20 quid for a knackered starter, an alternator I didn't trust and two duff electric window motors.

Same applies to battery's, weight them in by themselves. Their worth between 5-15 quid depending on size. Make sure you top them right up with water first:mischeif:. There are limits on how many you can weigh in at one time, check with your scrappy first. I recommend EMR, they have depots all over the country and tend to be the best on price by over 5% on everything other than ferrous metals.

Also original Audi catalytic converters are worth a fair bit so remove them as well. You'll get a better price for cats once you have half a dozen or so.