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December 27, 2008

Buying Car Salvage

Filed under: Build Your Own — flanok @ 12:46 pm

There is often a difference in buying a supercar or weekend sports car, to that vehicle you need for to get to work and the school run. For a start these cars tend to have done far less mileage that the day to day vehicles and in most cases are garaged and serviced very well.

This also means that when these supercars find themselves in a bump and insurance paid out on the claim, find themselves on the car salvage market, either at auction or from a dealer. In most cases the insurance companies are reluctant to send these vehicles to the crusher or parts only, so they find themselves available for to buy and out back on the road.

This is a great opportunity for someone who may dream of the day they owned a super car, say a Ferrari or Lamborghini, as it may be possible to pick up a low mileage salvage vehicles at a really low price, knowing the car could be worth a fortune when put back together again.
But this does come with a warning, for just as these cars tend to go out to auction complete, there is often a short supply of car parts to complete the salvage project. What parts there are available do tend to be sold at a premium, because of the demand. The internet has made this process easier, with some parts available abroad, say in the USA where there is a larger market.

So the trick is, as soon as a supercar salvage project comes on the market, to go and price up the main parts for the project, using the internet to speed up the process. Using car parts location services like CarSpareFinder will help to keep the cost down and productivity up.
It may take some time for the right salvage project to come along and then some effort to locate the parts before you buy. But if you can get everything right in the correct order, you may find yourself on your way to owning a supercar well below normal price.

Driving More Safely

Filed under: General — flanok @ 11:47 am

As the motoring clubs became insurance companies offering breakdown cover as service, the subject of road safety was moved to charity organisations with similar names or to other organisations such as Brake.

Receiving roads safety news from the AA, RAC or Green Flag did give credibility of any argument and was sure to be transmitted by the news agencies, but it also raised its head to some criticism, that the road safety messages were themed to market their breakdown cover services rather than being and independent source to improving the driving experience on our roads.

If you need facts on road safety then the Brake Briefings will give the latest information, together with a news section that unfortunately seems to only show BBC news.  Green Flag does help with certain campaigns and in the past has helped promote road safety week, which has a different website again.

The latest message was the relationship between young drivers and drink related accidents, of course duly timed to transmit over the Christmas period. It might not be pretty but we do need these independent charities helping deliver messages that may just save lives.

December 21, 2008

About time too!

Filed under: General — flanok @ 4:04 pm

We have been considering adding a real blog to this driving experience site for some time now. Original readers will see remnents of and existing blog, not done correctly that just didn’t work. So we hope this time we will keep going with driving information and a bit of motorsport thrown in.

That’s it for now, see you later

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