Which spare parts from a donor Focus sell well?

[optimisticmark]

Guys

I've recently bought a donor Focus 1.8 for my upcoming Rocket build, and I'm starting to strip spare parts off to sell on eBay and make some cash back. Even though everything's in remarkably good condition, some bits have sold for a good price (spare wheel and tyre especially), but many aren't getting any interest at all.

In your collective experience, which bits are worth trying to sell, and which bits aren't worth bothering with?

Cheers
Mark

[airforceone]

Hi Mark

I started stripping my donor car in April and I still have a room full of bits I'm trying to sell.
The market for focus parts has had a major down turn, I sold my 1.8Litre engine on ebay and got
the amazing price of 99 pence. I still have the front doors, radiator and fan to sell aswell as a load of
smaller bits, I stick them on ebay but unless you are willing to arrange postage there is very little interest.

If you have the space to store everything you take off then just stick them on ebay every time there is
a free listing then you wont be out of pocket. Sorry to say that you may have all the items you remove for a while. I ended up just ditching most of mine.

Depending on how much you paid for the focus, you may struggle to make the money back. Unless you paid 300 quid or less you may be ok. Fortunately in April I bought mine for 480 quid and up to now have managed to
make back almost 700 quid.

Remove the steering column, engine (and all it's attachments), gearbox, drive shafts, engine mounts, ecu/wiring, rear hubs and calipers if you have them on your model, brake/clutch res and coolant expansion tank (with all hoses) then sell what you can.

Good luck

Ned

[optimisticmark]

Ned

Thanks for your reply. Of that £700, were there a few items that went really well, or was that just lots of little sales?

If you're willing, it would help me (and lots of other people!) if you could post a list of what parts sold for what money.

I'll be pretty pleased if I can make £700 back from my £940 purchase price, and still have all the bits I need for the build plus the knowledge that'll come with taking them out.

Cheers
Mark

[daydreamer]

Hi Mark,

It's taken me 12 months to shift most of bits I kept.

Doors sold for between £30 and £50 each. There was a problem the early focus doors around 1999 to 2000 and a lot of them rust at the bottom. If your doors are ok then they should sell, eventually.

I sold a front wing for £10.

I still have a full collection of rear lights, nobody was interested even at 99p. You should be able to shift the front lights if they are in perfect condition.

It's a lot easier if you can post items. This is not feasible with body panels but some parts can be posted.

I thought the rear bumper which was in ok but not perfect condition would sell but there were no takers and I ditched that along with the rear hatch.

Depending on the spec of your car you may have a power steering pump and an aircon compressor which are both postable and saleable. The aircon storage bottle / hoses will fetch a few pounds. If you can separate the joints without damaging them.

I agree that it takes time to sell the left over parts. I missed a few opportunities in my haste to get the bits I wanted for my Sonic. If I collect up the bits I still have but have not yet listed as they are 500 miles away just now, I might make about £300 back.

I ditched the interior, that was probably a mistake.

I have kept the 15" alloy wheels, if I was to sell those then I might make another £60.

That would get me half way to £0 as I paid about £700 for the donor.

Good luck

Guy

[airforceone]

Mark

I did have an exel spread sheet made up with all outgoings and incomings but I can't find it on my
Laptop at the minute I will keep looking.

That was quite a lot of money you spent for a donor car. I used stripping mine as a teaching experience as
I new nothing about cars, so wanted a cheap one. All the items I mentioned you could get from a scrap yard
for 300 or 400 pounds. Infact my new 2.0 litre engine, new drive shafts and new gearbox only cost me
1300 quid, I have kept almost nothing of the donor for my build with the exception of the Steering column and some rear brake calipers.

Remember that if your car is taxed you can get some of the tax money back if you SORN the car, also
when you scrap it you may get some cash from the scrappy.

As I mentioned before the bits I have left are as follows:-

Front doors 40 quid each
Alloy wheels + tyres 70 quid the set
Drive shafts (old) 30 quid for both
Radiator + Fan 15 quid
Engine Mounts 50 quid for the 3
2.0 clutch kit (from the new engine) 50 quid for both parts
and loads of other small parts 50 quid in total

So if I sell the lot it's quite a bit of dosh, but I have relisted these items loads of times at various
prices with no joy.

Don't get too stressed about selling items off, as I said it was all a learning experience for me stripping
the focus I learned a lot from doing it.

Ned

[optimisticmark]

Guy/Ned

Great information, thank you! I hadn’t thought the doors would go for so much, mine are all fine, rust free, so I’ll give that a go.

I agree it was quite a bit for a donor, but it’s only got 33000 miles on the clock and I think that’s genuine – having driven it and looked at the condition of parts once I’ve cleaned them up. I should be able to use the engine, gearbox and a whole raft of other stuff without any more than a clean and paint.

The unused spare wheel/tyre went for £35. The foam inserts under the boot floor when for £1! The headlights go on eBay today, I’m hoping for a few quid for those.

Cheers
Mark