What's happening to the GTi's?

[Toms306]

I remember a while back breaking a 306 was pretty much a lost cause, people were selling a few choice bits off a shell and then being stuck with the rest sitting doing nowt on their driveway.

Yep...I've scrapped loads of decent panels over the years... Mint half leathers as well, and 5dr DTurbo cloth... And entire running HDi engines were stripped just for the rods and the rest scrapped...

It wasn't a lost cause tbf though, back in 2012/13 you could still get more out of breaking than selling, even if you scrapped half the car. It was all about the money back then.

Plus people don't want to pay for stuff even if it is decent with the 306 being fairly cheap to buy whole. I remember selling a complete mint drivers door a few years back, I sold it for a fiver as I needed it gone. The buyer was complaining how the scrap yard wanted to charge £20 for an equivalent door and why they weren't selling them for a fiver...