Both were timing belts/chains I believe. In one instance, the owner had forgotten to renew her insurance, so the breakdown cover refused to tow it, and after a warning from the feds she called a cash-for-cars hawk to delete it from the side of the dual carriageway.
Sort of live in the notion that it has to be really catastrophic for a car to be scrapped. But then I know of cars being scrapped for electronic modules failing
Both were timing belts/chains I believe. In one instance, the owner had forgotten to renew her insurance, so the breakdown cover refused to tow it, and after a warning from the feds she called a cash-for-cars hawk to delete it from the side of the dual carriageway.