Best way to get rid of semi non running car

matt100

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So it's finally happened, on the very day I finally found a replacement car after 10 years with my BMW 123d it decided to gently top itself and had the crankshaft pulley shear off just down the road from home (so I managed to limp it back).

Now on one hand it was until this point totally servicable, I used it multiple times a week and despite it's 216k miles I had just had a big service and it just passed its MOT.

So now it's sat on the drive basically stranded and the new car comes on Sunday... So, what to do..

It's got 216k miles, there's a decent sized hole in the drivers seat, the boot only works on the remote and the idrive system has taken to rebooting at least once per trip... however mechanically save for things you can't see about to happen it just had a big check out/new radiator/full fluid change etc. I have no doubt that if I had the pulley sorted it could keep going.

The cheapest of this car for sale in the UK at the moment is £3k with half the miles. I've been offered £400 for scrap which is obviously far quicker.

What would you do? Any other options? Obviously in a decade I've become quite attached to it, I'd sooner not see it in a crusher.
 
Absolutely, bang it on eBay no reserve and see what's offered.

I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.

Whatever you do DON'T put it on Facebook marketplace, unless of course you want to be inundated with idiots and have your time wasted royally!
 
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Scania said:
Absolutely, bang it on eBay no reserveand see what's offered.

I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.

Whatever you do DON'T put it on Facebook marketplace, unless of course you want to be inundated with idiots and have your time wasted royally!
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One of the many times I'm once again glad I never got a facebook account :)
 
Yup sold a car for £400 cash on eBay spares and repairs.

The more detail and honesty you can put into the advert the better, even point all the faults as well, anything you got changed over the years, cal belt etc whack that all in.

It then shows you know the car, people will see that.

You may think you might put people off but it'll do the opposite.

The guy that bought my car told me it was being exported to Africa.

Just make sure they sign the new keeper suppliment on the V5!!
 
I mean, I've been offered £400 for scrap but I'd sooner sell it to someone threatening to fix it or at least properly part it, I suspect the wheels, tyres, brakes and new radiator are worth that much.
 
jaybee said:
Do you have the space / patience to break it for parts? Often this raises quite a bit of cash.
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Neither, nor the tools sadly, I'd like to have a go but not possible.

Well to be honest if I had all that I'd fix it and sell it as running.

In fact thats been the other option, I could have it taken to a local garage I use a lot and then whats a replacement crankshaft pulley? £250/300?
 
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Neither, nor the tools sadly, I'd like to have a go but not possible.

Well to be honest if I had all that I'd fix it and sell it as running.

In fact thats been the other option, I could have it taken to a local garage I use a lot and then whats a replacement crankshaft pulley? £250/300?
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Is it only the pulley or actual internal damage? I'm going to hazard a guess and say the labour cost would be high. The grass is not always greener though. If you know the cars history and everything else is sound, you could get a new seat off ebay yourself for £50, get the car fixed and carry on. Or drop a second hand lower mile engine into it can often work out the same cost as a fix. Loads of options really. For the sake of moving it on quickly, yeah I would ebay it and someone will come and tow it I expect.
 
jaybee said:
Is it only the pulley or actual internal damage? I'm going to hazard a guess and say the labour cost would be high. The grass is not always greener though. If you know the cars history and everything else is sound, you could get a new seat off ebay yourself for £50, get the car fixed and carry on. Or drop a second hand lower mile engine into it can often work out the same cost as a fix. Loads of options really. For the sake of moving it on quickly, yeah I would ebay it and someone will come and tow it I expect.
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Well the pulley is sat on the bottom of the engine bay.. that said it happened a couple of miles from home and it got me home, I don't think there's any damage.

All that said, I'd been planning a replacement forever whilst waiting for this to really die and ironically I had found it on that same day (f31 335d) so I'm certainly not fixing it up. To be honest I'd been getting on fine with all its foibles anyway but I get that's no good for someone buying it.

It's got 216k miles, big things are sort of inevitably going to be going wrong with it fairly regularly.
 
Has the whole pulley come off or the more common rubber outer damper ring delaminated and come off the bit still attached to the crankshaft? Whole pulley off suggests there may be crankshaft nose / keyway damage. Outer damping ring off a trivial fix with a new, possibly cheap, pattern part pulley.
 
Chris Wilson said:
Has the whole pulley come off or the more common rubber outer damper ring delaminated and come off the bit still attached to the crankshaft? Whole pulley off suggests there may be crankshaft nose / keyway damage. Outer damping ring off a trivial fix with a new, possibly cheap, pattern part pulley.
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He's selling it cheap if you want to buy it and flip it.

Maybe this is fate.
 
So it looks like this?

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It's nearly always just the outer ring that comes off rather than the whole thing come off the nose of the crank... Where's the bolt for it, is that in the undertray?
 
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It does look like that yes, no idea on the bolt. As per the first post I'd already decided on my new car (and that I was going to webuyanycar this one for about £1k) on the day this happened so once I stuck my head in the engine bay the next day and saw the belt was totally loose I went looking for a snap in that, then saw (what I would call) a pulley sat on the undertray.

There's not much room to see much else easily so I shut the bonnet and started working out what order this was all about to happen in.
 
Scania said:
Absolutely, bang it on eBay no reserve and see what's offered.

I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.

Whatever you do DON'T put it on Facebook marketplace, unless of course you want to be inundated with idiots and have your time wasted royally!
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Personally I'd set a reserve for the scrap price. If it doesn't sell for more then you've got that as a fall back.
 
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