Donor vs Parts? My experience

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Originally Posted by alga

Hehe, the odds of selling parts are good if you're breaking an upmarket car that is still in use. Not so with the Sierra. Although I paid £115 for mine (rust bucket with the bumper+rad+headlights already stripped), and was able to recover £80 or so selling the bits I wasn't going to use (Pinto engine, flywheel, rear buffer, ECU, rear lights, ignition coil, exhaust).

Hi Alga,

What happened to hubs, brakes, diff prop, driveshafts etc?

Dont get me wrong I'm not saying this is the only way, Ive seen the question come up a few times and for once I felt happy to be able to share my experience instead of just reading others, I'm still in the very early stages of my journey, the forum has helped me a lot in the last year while its just been thoughts in my head, different donors will have different markets for sure and each will need research.

One downside I forgot to mention was the amount of time it consumes, creating listings, dealing with the silly requests, people agreeing to buy bits then dissapear etc.

That said I have met 2 or 3 really nice people who have a real interest in their cars. Overall I'm enjoying the experience and its getting me closer to the build