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So my old (52 plate) Civic type R stumbled on it's MOT this year, needs a reasonable amount of welding and has some brake pipe corrosion that could be expensive soon. I've opted to replace it so have a new car bought. The question is, patch up the civic enough to get it through an MOT and sell it on, approx £500 work. Sell it as is to someone looking for a project car (wouldn't get more than £800ish for it I'd imagine)? Or strip for spares and eBay the bits? It's currently at a friend's lockup where they could strip it.
What would the good folk of STW do?
Fix and sell it...very very few of that age that have been bastardised, so if fairly clean then will go with ease.
I’d stick it on eBay as it is, start at £1 no reserve.
You’d get at least £200 from one of those we buy any scrap car things (just did mine made up car, 100k miles, no mot but starts etc and they quoted £900!)
Fixed it up, get it through it’s mot and keep
it for the weekends. You’ll miss your Type R if you get rid of it. Wish I still had mine 🙁
Breaking a car takes way more time and space than you'd think, and you probably won't make as much as you'd think, then you'll have the Shell to dispose of. I wouldn't do that.
fix it up and keep it as a second cars insured for nothing on classic car insurance. Great cars.
Bang through mot with the minimum to get passed and then sell it. Folks want 12 month bangernomics and especially with a bit of fun thrown in. It will sell. If you're local to Derbyshire and can't be arsed I'm almost certain my mate would make you an offer as it is.
I wouldn't break it, way more hassle than it's worth even with space and time to do it. If it's in decent nick body work wise and mechanically sound I'd fix it, but if it's looking a bit rough then I wouldn't bother and would just sell it as is, someone will give you decent money for it.
fix it up and keep it as a second cars insured for nothing on classic car insurance. Great cars.
And chase the rot round ever year till you eventually get fed up of looking at the underside of a car. I can weld and enjoy working on cars and even I would approach with caution it'll end up parked under a tarp looking sorry for its self unless you have a real motivation to keep it going.
Sadly because it's rotten it'll never appreciate like an unrotten example.
it’ll end up parked under a tarp looking sorry for its self
As it is I only really drive at weekends so having a second car just doesn't add up. Like you say, it'd rarely get out.
Mechanically it's sound, bodywork is as you'd expect for a 179k car, it's not rusty, but it's not mint either.
Cheers for the opinions folks, much as if love to keep a fleet, I can just see this getting very rare use and decaying slowly from lack of use. It has been a great car, I'm already missing the fun points of driving it.
Depends on your time vs wealth vs space vs motivation ratio.
In the past I would probably have tidied it up and tried to sell it. These days I want an easy life and I'd probably list it on Gumtree & eBay with the MOT fail sheet. The last MOT failure, jaguar X Type, sold within 2 hours of listing it.
Agree with phil5556. I recently tried selling an old VW Bora (2003, PD engine, one of the better Diesel engines, so some worth). In the end I sold it to one of the online companies (giveacar) that lets you donate the proceeds to charity (so depends on the value of the car and how much you need the cash).