My partner sent his car for regular servicing recently, and the garage said it's not worth repairing as the underside is corroded. They offered him £150 for scrap.
It was MOTed in October last year and it passed after a few repairs costing £600, so this is quite a shock and also comes at a time when he's still repaying some loans when he was studying to become a teacher.
It's difficult to come up with the funds for another second hand car, as we hoped he could get some cash back for selling this one.
He is a teacher in Scotland, but not sure if the discounts through the EiS union are good or not.
Any thoughts or ideas?
It was MOTed in October last year and it passed after a few repairs costing £600, so this is quite a shock and also comes at a time when he's still repaying some loans when he was studying to become a teacher.
It's difficult to come up with the funds for another second hand car, as we hoped he could get some cash back for selling this one.
He is a teacher in Scotland, but not sure if the discounts through the EiS union are good or not.
Any thoughts or ideas?
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sorted byBangernomics is all about the cost of another 12 months of motoring. It will cost you a lot more to buy another banger so it might be worth keeping the present one running.
I ran a mini for 14 years and 140,000 miles before I gave up on it because of an airbag light. Traded it in for a new banger and got £500 value.
Take it elsewhere for a 2nd opinion and ensure you leave a fair (bad) review wherever you can if it transpired that they were lying.
Presumably it's rust it failed on. Find a backstreet garage who do welding for cash in hand. It shouldn't be more than £70 tops (edited)
You also say that the car went for a service and they told him it wasn't worth repairing?
Either there's some sort of misunderstanding, as the garage would just service the car as instructed or they're a bit dodgy and just trying to make some money without doing any work by just buying the car to sell on at a profit. (edited)
I'd honestly just got to another garage that one sounds really dodgy
Go idependent local. (edited)
The car is still MOT'd until October so no issue until then. If you only took it to this garage for a service, why are they trying to advise you that it needs major repairs and it needs to be scrapped? Either just tell them to service it as requested or take it elsewhere for the service you wanted.
You don't need to worry about any new repairs until the MOT comes around again in October
This was 3 years ago now. I still have the same car. It is running fine. (edited)
Use the car until the next mot comes due, put it through and see what's needed.
Even if the car was next to scrap you could sell it on for more than the scrap value they're offering if it still runs and drives and has an mot