BMW Disposing of Cars

[JaseNZ 53]

This is interesting if you want to have a look.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0B9sBiouJo

 

[polley 916]

a lot of those were late model cars,  wonder why they were getting crushed.

[BM WORLD 1283]

4 minutes ago, polley said:

a lot of those were late model cars,  wonder why they were getting crushed.

test cars etc some with little miles some with heaps etc

[richard 384]

watching the airbags go off reminded me of popcorn.

[Michael. 2313]

Most interesting. Even though there's plenty of reasoning behind such it's still unfortunate to see nice stock exhaust parts being thrown into scrap bins.

I could use some of those exhaust bits!

[E30 325i Rag-Top 2956]

Many of these processes in the vehicle manufacturing industry look to be very wasteful, but when you work out how much it would cost to have a process that re-introduced the parts back into "used parts" stock then it doesn't stack up.

Even if the parts are 99.99% brand new and have never been driven / used they cannot be re-introduced to the production line unfortunately.

If you are lucky you might get to scounge a few bits for your or a mates car, but quite often everything has to have a hammer put through it to make sure it doesn't get re-used by some devious method.

[JaseNZ 53]

1 hour ago, E30 325i Rag-Top said:

Many of these processes in the vehicle manufacturing industry look to be very wasteful, but when you work out how much it would cost to have a process that re-introduced the parts back into "used parts" stock then it doesn't stack up.

Even if the parts are 99.99% brand new and have never been driven / used they cannot be re-introduced to the production line unfortunately.

If you are lucky you might get to scounge a few bits for your or a mates car, but quite often everything has to have a hammer put through it to make sure it doesn't get re-used by some devious method.

Devious, nobody on here would be devious