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Do I need the whole car?
blockpower - 22/6/13 at 01:38 PM

I'm just about to embark on my first build. I'm wondering what others did here. I need the obligitary Sierra of course but I don't really want a car on my drive being stripped week by week and of course the problem of getting rid of it with no running gear afterwards. But I want the V5 to get the original licence plate, how does this work with UK breakers etc??

Will they let me have ownership (V5) and just take the parts I need from the yard while the car stays there?? any help would be appreciated.

ReMan - 22/6/13 at 01:46 PM

You will NOT get the original licence plate
At best you will get age related.
If that matters because you want to put a private plate on it, then its valid, else you will get a Q, which is no biggee on a kit.
For the amount of parts you actually use, If I did it again I'd just buy the bits

corrado vr6 - 22/6/13 at 01:58 PM

I bought a donor pack from Mk, now looking back I would have been better off just buying the bits off eBay, especially as said for what you will actually use!

Slimy38 - 22/6/13 at 02:01 PM

I plan to;

1. Buy a donor (Mazda MX5 for me), and declare it SORN once it's on my drive.
2. Strip the parts I need and/or want to sell.
3. Cut out all the chassis identification marks and VIN plates and retain them with the V5.
4. Dispose of the rest of the car as scrap metal rather than as a scrap car.
5. Use the vin plates, the V5 and the scrap metal receipt to get an age related plate and demonstrate the donor is now gone.

I'm planning on using as much of the donor as possible, even down to the instruments and seats (if they will fit). I would expect to be able to use more of an MX5 than a Sierra though.

[Edited on 22/6/13 by Slimy38]

ReMan - 22/6/13 at 02:07 PM

"I would expect to be able to use more of an MX5 than a Sierra though"
Exactly.
Unless your going to use the engine and box, and there wont be much of any sale value left on a Sierra

Bluemoon - 22/6/13 at 02:08 PM

quote:
Originally posted by ReMan
You will NOT get the original licence plate
At best you will get age related.
If that matters because you want to put a private plate on it, then its valid, else you will get a Q, which is no biggee on a kit.
For the amount of parts you actually use, If I did it again I'd just buy the bits


Not sure about the private plate bit for age related, I think it's a non-transferable plate, or at least it has to be the same reg year, worth finding out about if you care about it.

Like above you can do what you like, but you will (probably) end up with a Q plate, read the DVLA rules and the points system you will see most things are possible just depends how you do it, DVLA have started to give age related if they can rather than Q's.

Dan

Jamwat - 2/7/13 at 06:58 AM

my understanding is if its a Q plate then you cannot under any circumstances have a private plate.
However if you have an age related plate then you can change to a private plate.

ReMan - 2/7/13 at 10:44 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Jamwat
my understanding is if its a Q plate then you cannot under any circumstances have a private plate.
However if you have an age related plate then you can change to a private plate.

Correct

daveb666 - 2/7/13 at 11:03 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Jamwat
my understanding is if its a Q plate then you cannot under any circumstances have a private plate.
However if you have an age related plate then you can change to a private plate.


Correct; as long as the private plate does not make the car appear to be newer than it is originally.

ie. if you had car registration D425 XYZ you could not put the plate K17 CAR on to it

(or at least that's the way it is with normal cars)

Not Anumber - 2/7/13 at 01:23 PM

Stripping the donor is part and parcel of building a car. I used 2 donors for the Hawk AC Ace back in the day, an MGB and a Triumph 2500 saloon.

The MGB parts were bought as a donor pack or removed parts and whilst everything was there (mostly suspension) there was much resorting to manuals to work out how some of it went together. The Triumph was picked up as a runner and the time spent stripping it was easy to justify as it gave me the chance to note, photograph and label everything during the dismantling. The shell and parts we didnt use then went back to the scrappy a few days later.