fionajohn Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 i've been looking for a cheap alternator for my car. i was thinking of all the scrapyards down the road and wondered why shetland doesn't have one or morewould it be a good idea for the firm that picks up the scrap cars to offer this service? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shetlandcars Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 i've been looking for a cheap alternator for my car. i was thinking of all the scrapyards down the road and wondered why shetland doesn't have one or morewould it be a good idea for the firm that picks up the scrap cars to offer this service? By the time a car gets scrapped up here its generally quite old and very dead, that and so many people leave them on their own land in order to supply themselves with spare parts and perhaps others. I know we do that. Also I dont think the amenity trust are allowed to offer parts on vehicles they collect. Though im not sure what is stopping them. But yes a scrapyard would be good addition.Few issues that may have stopped it that I can think of is planning permission, cost of insurance and generally the amount of folk that would use the service. In a place as small as Shetland I would think the user base would be too small to support the running costs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dratsy Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 In a place as small as Shetland I would think the user base would be too small to support the running costs. Ha ha running costs, a pikey in a portacabin and a rotweiler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuckleJoannie Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 I was having a Google about this and one suggestion was to use an existing scrap yard to save you having to apply for the neccessary permissions. Might be worth getting in touch with 60 North. http://www.60northrecycling.co.uk/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shetlandpeat Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 Ha ha running costs, a pikey in a portacabin and a rotweiler. Fine example of the underlying racism in Shetland. There are many hurdles with this, not as simple as the above quote. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/1916/contents/made http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2635/contents/made If someone wants to do this, S.I.C. would be your first point of call, also contact the Motor Vehicle Dismantlers Association of Great Britain http://www.mvda.org.uk/contact.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Foord Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 Ha ha running costs, a pikey in a portacabin and a rotweiler. Fine example of the underlying racism in Shetland. It was obviously a joke comment - for Gods sake grow up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 I thought we had one, sort of.... Charlie Barton was advertising to buy scrap cars, and at the same ttime advertising used spare parts for sale. That was some months ago, has he stopped that?? Most garages, especially country ones will have a few wrecks lying around. Something usually non make/model specific like an alternator shouldn't be too difficult to pick up from one of them. Shetland used to have numerous "scrapyards", but relentless brain washing from certain quarters of pseudo-officialdom along with methaphorical arm-twisting and not so veiled comments about "usgly" and "it scares the touries" have pretty much killed them off. There ain't enough demand/money in it to make jumping through all the hoops the council hold up a viable option, and trying to go with an unofficial one just attracts more aggrivation from the same quarters than its worth. Yet one more "business" killed off by OTT red tape and jobsworths. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shetlandpeat Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 Don't forget the contamination of land. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 In a place as small as Shetland I would think the user base would be too small to support the running costs. Ha ha running costs, a pikey in a portacabin and a rotweiler. Should that no be a crofter in an old van body, with an ill natured collie. That would be how I'd do it anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muggins Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 na minn , der mair pikeys as crofters up dis wye Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dratsy Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 In a place as small as Shetland I would think the user base would be too small to support the running costs. Ha ha running costs, a pikey in a portacabin and a rotweiler. Should that no be a crofter in an old van body, with an ill natured collie. That would be how I'd do it anyway. surely du means an ill natured crofter in an old van body with a collie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 ^^ Ahhh....Yup, so days geen dat wye, if dir naethin left ta smok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArabiaTerra Posted March 31, 2012 Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 Ha ha running costs, a pikey in a portacabin and a rotweiler. Fine example of the underlying racism in Shetland. It was obviously a joke comment - for Gods sake grow up!So it's not racist if it's a joke? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dratsy Posted March 31, 2012 Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 A pikey - a rough person of indeterminable address.not a race of people so not racistGet over yourself AT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkusoBruntskerry Posted March 31, 2012 Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 To the original question, I have found that car parts tend to be destroyed by the environment if the vehicle sits for a period of time. I would suggest e-bay, Gumtree or Overtons (scrap yard, give them a phone and ask for bits) in Dyce Aberdeen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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