Archive for February, 2009

It seemed quite mad but there were motorists who attempted to move their car across snow covered roads, only to find them move in an a different direction to the road. The results were a huge increase in motoring accident, taking the loyal car straight to the insurance yard and then to the breakers yards, providing car parts for you and me and probably a few salvage projects too.

It is however quiet astonishing that even when we know the bad weather is coming; we first are unable to clear the snow an second, seem to think we can leave our homes at the same time and get to work, school or whatever in the same period of time as normal. The results are stressed motorists, who then find themselves clipping kerbs, hitting trees or worse, other cars.

This is not good news for the insurance companies who now have bumper payouts, or the breakdown cover patrolmen, who are now really earning their annual premiums. But for the car part searcher, there will be an abundance of cars hitting the breaker yards after insurance procedures have been cleared.

This probably won’t affect the 4 x 4 market as owners are probably having some relief from the excess insurance charges, road tax and depreciation in their vehicle values. For once there will be a relief in owning a vehicle like this and have the benefit of getting around, providing they wer not stuck in a traffic jam of course.

But for breaker yards that have been a bit short of car parts recently, this may be good news with a new influx of new models arriving. We will wait and see what they are.