nickbos
Member Since: 11 Sep 2018
Location: Cambridgeshire
Posts: 72
  
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As a sideline . . . when the wonky alt was removed, before it went down to the recycling centre I scratched"F****D" above the manufacturers plate - just as some assurance that it won't end back on the "parts market", and someone else doesn't part company with hard-earned cash for it (my indy's view was that it was probably retrieved from a dealer's skip in the first place).
I also took a hammer to the faulty clockspring that came out and smashed it to bits - again to keep it from ending up on eBay. Several there at present, including one that includes "...was removed from my own vehicle". Why would you remove one of these unless it was faulty? Although not functioning fully, my one looked pristine and if I was a scrote I could easily have put it up for sale and made a quick pony.
There's definitely a moral here around parting company with money for secondhand parts. There are parts (system critical?). . . and then there are parts (cosmetic/non-critical?) ?
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 25th Sep 2018 8:03 am |
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