how much hard cash did you make breaking your z rather than selling it complete. thinking of breaking mine to finance new one.

how much hard cash did you make breaking your z rather than selling it complete. thinking of breaking mine to finance new one.

 

How long is a piece of string?

 

It really depends on:

 

What performance parts are on the car?

What is the general condition of the parts?

Are the engine and gearbox in good nic?

How much time are you willing to spend having the car in bits?

Etc, etc, etc.

 

Breaking a car "appears" to be lucrative but in my opinion it is best left to breakers and garages who strip cars for spares. You could end up with a car in a hundred thousand pieces and no sales. Also, there are so many cars being broken at the moment that there is a surplus of second hand parts on the market. This will make it harder for you to sell the parts which will drive your prices down as you need to shift the parts which means you'll end up with less money.

 

My advise is, take off all the performance parts and sell them separately. Return the car to a near stock state and then sell it for a reasonable price. That way you maximise your profits for the least amount of work.

 

HTH

 

Dan

How long is a piece of string?

 

It really depends on:

 

What performance parts are on the car?

What is the general condition of the parts?

Are the engine and gearbox in good nic?

How much time are you willing to spend having the car in bits?

Etc, etc, etc.

 

Breaking a car "appears" to be lucrative but in my opinion it is best left to breakers and garages who strip cars for spares. You could end up with a car in a hundred thousand pieces and no sales. Also, there are so many cars being broken at the moment that there is a surplus of second hand parts on the market. This will make it harder for you to sell the parts which will drive your prices down as you need to shift the parts which means you'll end up with less money.

 

My advise is, take off all the performance parts and sell them separately. Return the car to a near stock state and then sell it for a reasonable price. That way you maximise your profits for the least amount of work.

 

HTH

 

Dan

 

yep already considered all of the above, was looking for peoples actual experiences and wether they think they had made less or more than they thought they would make. Realy just trying to get an approximate value on selling as a breaker, as most of upgrade parts will eventualy end up on new one and trying to replace upgrade bits with standard would cost a fair bit anyway.