Reason I ask, I was driving around yesterday and saw a tow truck hauling a 240D. I managed to stop him and take a look at the car. 82 4 speed, rusty with a bad clutch. New Michelins and Alloys. The driver said it was being hauled to the crusher. I asked him what he will get for it he said by the pound and for this car 3500Lbs it would be $300.00. Pay me $300 its yours. Is this true?? How much does the crusher actually pay any idea?

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72 280SE His Majesty

Locally it's currently .085 cents per pound for vehicles.

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15 VW Passat TDI
00 E420
98 E300 DT
97 E420 Donor Car - NEED PARTS? PM ME!
97 S500
97 E300D
86 Holden Jackaroo Turbo D
86 300SDL
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A car for less than nine cents a pound sounds pretty good. Of course, anything is only worth whatever you'll pay for it. Seems like you could get a lot more than that just parting it out, though.

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OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

Wisconsin's up to 155 a ton (opposed to apparently 170 in Mississippi)


Aluminium rims are .75 per LB

Straight up aluminium is .90 per lb (cleaned aluminium engine block)
I pull batteries, radiators/condensors, rims and transmissions if they're easy enough.

I also stuffed the last car I scrapped with old steel bike parts, and used oil filters (they said just let them drain upright before putting them in the car)

Paid $160, put 2 hours of work into it, and scrapped it for $260 total

I need sleep, have fun
~Nate

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95 Honda Shadow ACE 1100.
1999 Plymouth Neon Expresso. 2.4 swap, 10.5 to 1 comp, big cams. Autocross time attack vehicle!
2012 Escape, 'hunter" (5 sp 4cyl)

Did you end up buying the car??? Tires are worth that, plus you can scrap it yourself for not a whole lot less then that...

~Nate

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95 Honda Shadow ACE 1100.
1999 Plymouth Neon Expresso. 2.4 swap, 10.5 to 1 comp, big cams. Autocross time attack vehicle!
2012 Escape, 'hunter" (5 sp 4cyl)

My 190E was $7 per 100lbs (.70/1lb)Last week I got $6.75 per 100 for the 240D (.675)
I'm going to call around a bit...but when I've got 2 scrapyards only 15 miles away it's easy.

Where I go requires me to take my wheels with me.

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'85 280GE...sold
'96 Impala SS ~ 6-speed 396
'14 Cadillac Vagon. . . . . . . . . . "Life without knowledge is death in disguise." - Hans-Peter Geerdes

No another member is looking at it today. I am useless at parting out stuff. All the pieces will be broken. I really wanted the wheels and tires for my 280SE.

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72 280SE His Majesty

Well, I looked at that car for Mike today. Body extremely rusted out, including floors under both seats. Aluminum front bumper corroding badly where chrome has peeled away. Seller said clutch is burned up. It has about 300K miles on it. Rear tires good but fronts worn on inside due to alignment problem - not completely worn out but not good enough to pay $300 for only 2 really good tires. And Mike lives in a townhouse and sold his 300D, so there's nowhere to keep, and currently no reason to have, a W123 parts-car. I'd be tempted too, but I have too many vehicles already and am trying to keep under the county's radar. Also a 300K-mile parts-car isn't my first choice. Last Fall, there was a wrecked manual 240D, with about half the mileage, in Virginia Beach that I would have prefered.

Happy Motoring, Mark

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In Omaha, NE they are paying $200.00. Makes no difference whether it's a Mercedes-Benz........

I got $71 for my 300TD at the crusher without an engine or tranny.

I've seen ads paying between $50 - $200 (regardless of type of car) including the tow.

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1999 E430
1999 C230 Kompressor
1992 300E (write-off)
1984 190D 2.2 (sold)

its worth the effort to prep it for scrap..

salvage yards give you crap for the car then go make tons of money of it(if its in demand).. then they sell it for scrap value and make even more money...

If I had the room and a barn I would strip cars down to the bare chasis and sell everything off of it. what ever doesn't sell gets scrapped later down the line

I bought a 92? geo storm for $160 (after they tranny dropped it till it wouldnt move, then blew it up :p)

Pulled the radiators and condencor ($20)
Pulled the valve cover, and head ($35)
Scrapped the car ($190)
and then scrapped the aluminium rims ($65)

I was a happy little scrapper
~Nate

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95 Honda Shadow ACE 1100.
1999 Plymouth Neon Expresso. 2.4 swap, 10.5 to 1 comp, big cams. Autocross time attack vehicle!
2012 Escape, 'hunter" (5 sp 4cyl)