Scrappage scheme cars: Still on the runway!

Why have all the old cars had their number plates taken off?

And if you were scrapping your car as part of the scappage scheme, why would you put your entire service history in with the car. It's not like it was going off to a new owner.

Also in the photos, those new cars look like they already have number plates on. Meaning they will be losing value as time goes on.
 
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The government could employ a few mechanics out of work, break down the cars and sell on. Make a little money for the government or the local towns around.
 
rypt said:
Most of those cars look good enough to still be in use, what a waste
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All of them were good enough to still be in use - crappy bangers with no MOT were not eligable for the scheme. Only cars with an MOT which you'd owned for over a year could be used, so your stereotypical owned for 6 months banger didnt qualify.
 
[TW]Fox;18254350 said:
All of them were good enough to still be in use - crappy bangers with no MOT were not eligable for the scheme. Only cars with an MOT which you'd owned for over a year could be used, so your stereotypical owned for 6 months banger didnt qualify.
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Mainly to stop people buying a crappy banger a week or two earlier for a couple of hundred quid just to get the two thousand off!

Oh, and to all those thinking that scrappage cars were just crushed, a large majority would have been stripped for parts too. Scrappies and breakers where they ended up arent that stupid! :p

PK!
 
I just find this completely bizarre...
How was it ever seen as a good idea? It can only have done bad things for the country in the long run?
Roads filled with comedy Korean tins, meanwhile, thousands of working, decent condition cars rot away...

The cost of to get rid of these cars must be immense. If the decent cars can't be put back on the road then they should at least be sold for parts.
 
misterPK said:
Mainly to stop people buying a crappy banger a week or two earlier for a couple of hundred quid just to get the two thousand off!PK!
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Devil's advocate: Why would this be a bad thing? Surely a mass of £100 crappy cars with hardly or no MOT being crushed and removed from the road would be more beneficial from an environmental perspective. Rather than removing cars from the road that have been owned for a while, generally looked after and meet MOT standards for emissions and roadworthiness (obviously at the time of testing).
 
AcidHell2 said:
why didn't they cut the a main chassis number and sell to scrap yards. or just declare as a write off which can never be put back on the road. So many useful parts and as I understand it they are just getting scrapped, not recycled or stripped?
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government involved = massive waste, we just threw 18,000 of 6 month old server away... I have seem waste on an epic scale it makes me feel sick and I only work on a small site.
 
Janesy B said:
Devil's advocate: Why would this be a bad thing? Surely a mass of £100 crappy cars with hardly or no MOT being crushed and removed from the road would be more beneficial from an environmental perspective.
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but they are replaced with a new car... that required massive environemental dammage and polution to create, thats (probably) so complicated and hard to fix its life time is much shorter (i assume the last bit I ahve no proof)

isnt the polution caused by a car in its life time about the same as that used to create it? so the longer its kept on the road the better?
 
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