An hour of scrapyard wandering! Tanygroes Car Dismantlers
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2024
- We spent an our walking through the scrapyard (or junkyard) wonderland of Tanygroes Car Dismantlers in West Wales (www.tcdsalvage.co.uk). Would we find Hubnut Gold? We certainly found a Vauxhall Frontera, two Daihatsu Sirions, a Perodua Myvi, an early Citroen Berlingo with roof storage bins, a few Rover 75s, a Volvo 740GLE, Bedford CF camper, Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit and Silver Shadow and Renault Vel Satis and Scenic RX4!
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Taking the Mrs to a scrapyard on a date. And she’s not complaining! 😜
Yes and i for one am extremely jealous!
My Dad used to take my mum around Dai Woodams in Barry when they were dating.
Now that is true love.
What kind of bribe worked 🙏🙏
She's a keeper.
Such a simple pleasure which is getting rarer these days.
Scrapyards tell us so much about the human condition,all that cherished love and attention,now abandoned,interesting,strangely haunting,but ultimately depressing,they always leave me feeling sad and empty somehow.
Yes it is sad, but when spare parts from them go on to help other cars stay on the road that's a silver lining.
Agree - all that glamorous marketing up-front, all that braggadocio, all those tens of thousands of pounds spent, but then at the end, to the people that work in these yards, just another metal box. A great leveller.
I always think the same, they were all once someone's pride and joy, loved and cared for, shiny and new, now scrap. Bit like life really ... I've depressed myself now.
I’ve always thought that. These cars were once brand new in a showroom now they’re sitting in a field about to be stripped and crushed
Everything has its lifespan . Nothing runs forever . I'm intrigued by scrapyards
Just think, 15 years or so ago, someone was very excited at getting a new car. That new car smell, the pristine manual book, setting up the radio to your favourite stations (probably all them crap). And now.....well, just sad really.
Hmmm, my youngest car is 15 years old.
laugh is most of the cars in there, people bought new under the scrappage scheme. Now look where they ended up now, practically sitting beside some of the cars it replaced. Say someone put that 406 in for the scrappage scheme for the 407, which is now sitting beside it.
@@procta2343 exactly, some of these old girls could still run if they had the investment too, sad sight to see
Lady Hubnut’s camerawork was second to none. She’s a keeper!
Yes!!!! The perfect video DOES exist! We all love a scrapyard wander!
You know you’re watching HubNut when an XR2i is quickly binned off with a cry of ‘A SUBARU JUSTY!’
To be fair the Just was _quite_ exceptional.
Particularly in that lovely purple.
Whenever I think of XR2s, my first thought is of panel gaps.
Not a good enough reason to scrap them, but I always just seemed to favour the "lesser" models - particularly with the 'Popular' engines.
*JUSTY* - not "Just".
Sorry about auto "correction" 😤
Oh how I miss a scrapyard, such a pleasure to go around and liberate spares.
Good stuff, it’s like the under £1000 section of auto trader
‘You won’t find a better example!’
When I was very young, I would explore places like this, and make up stories about the people who I imagined owned the cars when they were new. By the time I was 6 I could name the make and model of every kind of western European and American car. Many people feel depressed when going to junkyards. I never did. It’s very much like an outdoor museum (where you can touch everything). Thanks for the video. Cheers.
Every time I see a 3 door HRV I can hear the cinema advert sound saying "joy machine" looked so cool in the 90s.
When you’re watching Mr & Miss Hub Nut wandering around a scrapyard and find it extremely relaxing and fun 😊
Loved climbing around scrapyards when I was a kid, sat behind the wheel pretend driving them all. :) Dad would be trying to source a half decent clutch for a Minx, Marina, Corsair, Victor etc. because they lasted about as long as brake pads do now. :) In reference to the vehicles mentioned, I'm not that old but we were poor (but very happy) :)
I feel sad when you see some cars in a junkyard that don’t belong there 😿
@Paul MR1 too true indeed 😳
The way cars are valued does not take into account how useful they may actually be. Often good cars are thrown away for repairs considered uneconomic because they exceed the value of the car, when in reality the car may be good for many years. My car was only worth £500 pounds 10 years ago, people thought I was crazy spending a 1000 on it, but I still have it today.
@@andrewthompsonuk1 a very valid point. This uneconomic to repair nonsense seems like trying to steer people away from keeping cars running for years. If the thing is paid for and does the job then no one should have to take on monthly payments again if they would rather not.
@Paul MR1 Chinese ended up with most of ours as scrap. CRIME.
I live close to a ELV dismantlers in Nth London, a big company with a massive yard and dozens of trucks. I walk past those trucks when they are lined up to go into the yard and on the back are some very nice condition cars, most around 10 years old. I keep reading the term 'uneconomical to repair', says who, the insurance company's? 75% of these cars have no bodywork damage at all so mechanical faults? As a lover of running old vehicles i do find it sad, indeed wrong, that these vehicles are being scrapped when chances are they could be made good to run again.
Can't believe that I've just watched an hour of Mr & Mrs HubNut wandering around a scrapyard but absolutely loved every minute of it. You just cannot find quality entertainment like this anywhere else. Keep these vids coming and God Bless.
"You can smell the human suffering" One of the best lines I've ever heard perfect delivery 🤣🤣🤣
I really enjoyed watching. So little of these once popular cars remain on the roads. I remember doing a scrapyard exploration in the 1980s and the places was full of Datsun 120Ys and 100As, which I loved, plus loads of Cortinas, Escorts, Vivas and the usual BL stuff.
Scrapyard? That is like a showroom to you.👍
I miss those days when I could walk around the scrap yard. There was a really good one near me called W.J. Furber. Great place. It's a nature reserve now.
Full credit and respect for Ms Hubnut to walk around a cold oily damp scrap yard filming .
I miss the days of the cars in scrapyards being stacked 2 or more high and taking your life in your hands to get the part you want. Lol. 👍👍👍👍👍👍
‘Robert diy’ youtuber does similar videos, he was at “two stack jacks” yard couple days ago, where they still do that
Yes, always good when you needed e.g. a back axle: didn’t need to bother the fork lift chaps!
one local yard to me still stacks them 3 high, Not sure how they still get away with it, He always says use the ladders there to get the parts off.
I did this myself. I needed a heater blower motor for my Hilman Imp. It was on top of two other cars. Sunbury scrapyard.
@@procta2343 Never needed a ladder just climb up.
Thank you for the video, I really enjoyed that, I used to love going through car scrap yards with my Dad when I was younger when looking for car parts for our cars whenever. We needed them.
This vid reminds me of back in the day, going to a scrapyard in Newport to get a starting handle for my 2CV. The 2CV was at the top of a 3 car stack and the bloke told me I had to get it myself. Frightened the life out of me as I climbed from the front through to the boot 😂
You sure know how to spoil Mrs. Hubnut, romantic devil you!
I used to spend most Saturdays in a scrapyard when I got my first car many moons ago, good times.
Longest vid for ages, but what bliss, exploring a scrap yard. Frightening to see so many young cars scrapped.
Much more enjoyable than the title might have you believe, in fact it was pretty much fascinating.
Like minded souls on a date to the scrapyard, how lovely!
Reminds me of many happy days 30 years ago... The thrill of discovery when you found a brand new part that had been fitted just before a failed MOT....
You know it's a big place when one needs a backpack to tour it 😆
Still driving a Daihatsu Sirion from 2005, was my Mum's car, drives beautifully!! Sad to see so many newer cars here in the scrap yard! :)
That Laguna looked like a 1.8 RN (wheeltrims, grey bumpers). I had an R-reg 1.8 RT sport which was a lovely car and wonderful to drive, but it had unfortunately had had a very hard life. Love the 405 estate very much. The interior on the S60 with the red seats is an incredibly rare option.
And VWs are pretty crap to be fair, not as tough as people think they are. Very interesting video!
Very interesting, thanks. Parts of my car have come (cheaply) from a local scrappie that my local garage regularly uses. So I appreciate their role in recycling parts to keep older cars affordably on the road, for those of us not blessed with affluence or who live in remote areas without much in the way of public transport.
Love that ur mrs is as into motors as you have cracked it mate u really have!!
Bleak but the passion still shines through. A bit like Chris Packham posting a 57 min video of him identifying roadkill.
I can listen to you all day talk about cars Ian well said 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
That Rolls would make a great National Banger
I was very surprised to see that neither of those Rollers had been acquired for racing, my understanding being that they're very popular with the banger fraternity. Not many meets in that part of the world I guess, but I'm sure people would travel for a decent shell :)
Always enjoy a good poke around a proper scrappy, but not very many left now. And yes, seeing cars like that 2007 Civic (whose futuristic styling impressed me when they were new) awaiting their date with the baler makes me feel very old. I'd have taken the 740 home for nostalgia reasons (my Mum drove a pre-facelift saloon throughout the early 90s) as she looked to be in decent shape and those redblock engines run forever. Pity about the Vel Satis - they're pretty much worthless right now but a definite future classic I suspect.
always a blast walking through these "old timey" scrapyards
Reminds me of the 70's and 80's where nearly all scrappers were like that Mr HubNut, don't think your quite old enough though 🙂
Yes I remember going round in the mid-eighties and shocked to see so many very presentable SD1s (not the V8s) with broken engines and only 60k on the clock.
Aah, Tanygroes! Quite a few hours spent there in my youth, kept an old Triumph on the road for a few years, as well as a friend’s Avenger amongst others... Happy days!
What a fantastic hour. The throwaway society .
What a cruel man you are when describing the fate of that first little car. The camera holder was sobbing 😭
I was in tears when Hubnut and his Mrs came to the Myvi. I have always wanted one! Especially the ultra rare Wolfrace sporty edition.
I love scrapyard videos. Especially proper yards that let you wander round. Time for tea i think. And a choccy biccy or 5.
Brilliant video and your knowledge of quirky Asian cars is staggering. I've always found scrapyards relaxing, rewarding and therapeutic. Lucky enough to have some big yards close to me, usually get what I need.
Rather chose a good used original part than chance a cheaply made reproduction thats hit + miss whether it fits.
Great video, Mr Ian. That xr2 - with prices what they are now, won't be surprised if someone sticks that up on eBay for 10k as a barn find!
Be interesting to see how long that had been in there, As some yards to like to keep the odd old car like that in for sake of the odd sale.
I love a good scrappy, but much more fun when they used to be stacked 3 high and you were trying to get a seat out of one!
I recently took a friends daughter into the local scrapyard as an educational experience & we talked about recycling, using 2nd hand parts & finally the fluctuations in the scrap prices. We also talked about safety & crashes etc.
She enjoyed it after a bit reluctance-her mum wasn’t so amused but I labelled it up as a ‘life experience’. 😊
Thank you for sharing this Ian. Miss the simple days of scrap yard wandering.
Brilliant video Ian. It’s a shame what a throw away society we live I today. Where as years ago we’d get them prepared now it’s just use them and acts a few years their scrapped☹️
A Sirion 1.3SE was our last English registered car. We drove it from Southport to Oviedo N. Spain, in August last year with 149000 miles on the clock. (we now live here) knowing it 's mot would expire shortly thereafter. It was the most reliable car we ever owned and it too went to the scrapyard, I do not normally get attached to cars, but it was a belter! RIP Daihatsu!!
Thoroughly enjoyed that tour. Some really interesting finds. So many English scrapyards have closed that it’s a rare treat to see a good one.
me and my mate used to go to our local one, get what we wanted, and then go for a wonder up the top part. Where they would have some of the cars from the 70s 80s and the early 90s. We would spend more time up there, than we did getting our parts from the cars. Eye watering what we used to see up there. Mind paying for the stuff, was like buying a round of drinks, the site manager used to say, "what you got then lads all together?" we would show the parts, and it was always a tenner. even though some of the parts were worth that a lone! I remember the same manager charging a fella £75 for an alloy wheel, and me only £15
Good video. Always interesting to wander round a scrap yard. Plenty of the cars there are younger than one of my own - a 2003 Civic.
Hun has impressive general car knowledge. Amazing
I'm so with you.. anything newer than n reg is still new in my eyes
Thanks for sharing this. Its amazing to see a proper scrap yard still. And you are correct, so many of these 'new' cars don't deserve to be there. I certainly couldn't work in a place like that, my driveway at home would be overflowing, double stacked and half way down the street too!
There can' t be many scrapyards around nowadays where you can actually go and remove parts yourself. I used to love doing that when I was younger. I had a Y plate Renault Scenic RX4 when they were still very new, it was metallic green like the one in this video. I loved it, mainly due to the fact that it was very quirky.
My first few cars, where very Frankenstein like due to my local scrapyard. When you could wonder around. If I saw a feature in one car I'd try to get one at the yard and fit it to my car.
this video has a never ending shelf-life, it will be better in 2040, I will come back and watch it again in 20 years. 26:08 Karma Purple.
You know you're getting old when all the cars in the scrapyard look new.
I used to LOVE going into scrapyards and looking at relatively modern cars like this. Loved this video, was oddly therapeutic to watch 😁
Ah, just like my Sunday mornings in the 80s and 90s. Except in those days it was BL and earlier Ford's etc. Happy days. And kudos to Miss HubNut for filming
The Sirion even has a towing hook. What a great compact multi-purpose vehicle!
''You can smell the human suffering...'' I'm actually crying with laughter. Oh my days..
Good to know you can still walk around to pick your own parts 👍 only up the road from me but haven't been there for about 10 years now
There are people in my car club, who are boasting they're certified first owner of their 25+ year old car.
The scrapyard owner in my car club: "Ha! I am certified LAST owner of hundreds of cars!" 😂
Scrap yard field trip , Fantastic, Thank you sir! And Miss Hubnut😁
I know it can be sad seeing lots of cars that maybe shouldn't be scrapped, but I for one loved this video. As a youngster with a 1967 Austin Mini I was always hunting breakers for spares or extras. Please do as many of these as you like. Thank you again
I have t-shirts older than most of the cars there!
Now this, is going to be a banger. One man's rubbish, is another man's treasure.
30 years ago when I 1st started driving I worked at a car scrapyard, for the next 8-10 years that I worked there all my cars were cars that other people had scrapped and 99% of those cars with very little work were really good cars that I then resold after I’d finished with them. It’s criminal what some people scrap. My best find was a 6 year old ford escort that was a “non-runner” 1 starter motor and a battery later it flew through an mot.
Sir, your encyclopeidc knowledge of 4-wheeled tat is commendable.
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There's not many women who'd happily wander around a scrapyard. You obviously know how to pick wisely. Lovely video. Something very satisfying about looking at junk cars.
Had many years of Fun in a Jackeroo. Went On and on with only regular maintenance.
Good Hunk of metal with 'Roo bar' obviously...! 😎
I've owned sirion with the 1 liter engine. Also had a cuore automatic and a fourtrak, gutted daihatsu left the UK. Great little cars super reliable.
It’s sad what you find in a scrap yard. I really don’t see my 106 as an “old” car (maybe if it was a series 1 I would) but they’re thinner on the ground than I’d ever would have thought. Same with MK4 and 5 fiestas, the last time I saw a MK4 in person was my mums when it went off to the scrapper in about 2007 which could’ve probably been fixed but it was cheaper just to buy a new car for the worth of it at the time. Could the purple car have been a micra? I remember seeing a few in that purple colour. Definitely missing seeing hundreds hundreds of 406s about, as it’s another car I’ve not seen for a while. Taxi firms used to have millions of them, but they’ve all moved on to modern mondeos and corollas by the looks of it now. It really is sad what gets thrown away, throw away society and all that, but I’d love to nose around scrap yards like this whenever I can.
the laugh was, you used to see loads of saxos, 106s etc, then one day they have just seemed to vanish. One lad at work loved my 306, he said he wanted one when he was a kid. i said buy one, he said. mate they are too old now. Then it hit me, it was like asking me to buy a 205 at his age!
One Saxo I saw a young lad had just got out of after seemingly crashing into a lamppost.
I test drove one myself another time, and found that it gave me a *terrible* backache.
Main reason I rejected it 🤒
TAN Interestingly TAN in Chinese is SPIT. Where you clear up all the bits and get rid of it.
Superb walk round. Yes Rain outside and cold in our Workshop so we watch Ian on a ROMANTIC walk round a Scrap Yard. Yes some of the cars are so new compared to what we all seem to Drive.
Love to you both David and Lily. Loving Miss Hubnuts visits to local towns.
My dad used to have a Honda Civic in 2007 and we drove to Austria in it, he also got points on his license for doing 125 on the motorway later that year 😮🤣
I think the Leaf must have been a crash write off. Very interesting video an hour well spent.
i am on the fence with that, because nissan only stopped making that model about 3 years ago, ( i make the sash for the leaf, and other lines still make the parts for it too, which moved over to the new one. So i am suspecting that the battery had seen better days and it was far to expensive to fix, so it was bought up in sales for spares.
When I was a kid, back in the early 80's, cars in scrapyards always seemed to be really old & completely knackered, now many of those still look ready to just drive away, I've seen worse cars still on the road!
Where I go there's usually worse looking cars in the car park than many in the yard.
Rust used to kill them, now it's an overpriced electronic module failure.
Made my day seeing the Renault 5 I loved them big fan of them.
grew up going round all local scrap yards with my dad.. thats how all family cars were able to stay on the roads..
Hi Ian, great video I really enjoyed that, you can't beat a good scrapyard, look forward to your next video
I loved my 405 Estates, so roomy, and drove well too.
WOW you just answered a question i was wondering about with my local scrapyard.. all the vehicles in the yard have 'depoled' on them. NOW i know, thank you Ian
Get the 1.3 engine out of the Sirion to replace the smoking 1 liter unit?
Sad to see that 405 in a scrapyard, getting very rare now. Brilliant cars especially in diesel form
That E39 will almost certainly be there as an MoT failure due to structural rust. They were such beautiful cars, possibly one of the finest BMWs ever made, but that blistering on the wheel arch will sadly be the thin end of the wedge. Love your content!
I did an MOT check on it, and its only done 2 to 3k miles between tests, it was last MOTd in 2016, so its been laid up for while that. P184LLH is the reg if you want to check the mot history.
Great place, had many parts from there. Always very helpful staff.....Great video !!!
Hubnut : * dons hi-viz jacket for safety *
Also Hubnut : * covers hi-viz with huge black rucksack *
Scrapyards gives me peace.
Quite took me back to a mis-spent youth wandering around the scrapyards -but that was in the day when most of the British cars shared common Smiths or Lucas components, Wilmott Breedon door furniture etc. and you could almost always find what you wanted. I once found a Scammell Pioneer tank-transporter and I've often wondered if anybody rescued it.
Another innovative wander ! You keep me interested.
Really enjoyed that, it's amazing how some car end up after so few few years!
Not many women I know will walk around a scrapyard, well done Ian and Miss Hubnut
Nice walk along some surprisingly recent cars. The lack of an export market for used UK cars must depress prices quickly. The sight of that Accord Tourer with the "£7000 for scrappage" stickers at the very beginning makes me slightly mad though, even if I've got no idea if anything was seriously wrong with it.
That ford ka with the blue bumper is mine! Had it a few years ago brilliant car much much MUCH welding was done
Its funny how your old cars pop up, i have had 2 pop up on the internet over the years. One been passed about the era and been painted MG yellow with a horrid body kit on, the other one of the lads i know, ended up buying off the owner who bought it from me to break.
Had a Sirion as my hire car in Malta in 2009. As my own car was a Citroen XM, I was dreading it - I needn't have, as it was superb for what it was.
My local dismantlers will not let you wonder the fields, I miss doing it like I did, when I was a wee young lad.
My dad has a 2005 Sirion that he has had from new. He was a driving instructor and despite a hard life it now has over 200,000 miles on it and it is still going strong!