PARTS & SALVAGE DIRECTORY

To coincide with CARS2016, which will be taking place at Donington Park Circuit on 13-14th July 2016, MVDA will be launching its annual Parts & Salvage Directory.

This will be available as a paper supplement to the MVDA magazine & will also be downloadable from the MVDA website.

All members will have a free 'basic' advert (outlining their location, contact details & services offered etc.) but there will be the opportunity to upgrade to 1/4, 1/2 or full page adverts.

Members will also have the opportunity to order multiple copies for their own use.

Feel free to contact us if you have any ideas for the Directory.

www.mvda.org.uk

NEW AIRBAG LEGISLATION - ARE YOU COMPLYING?

New legislation on the sale of airbags was introduced in August 2015. MVDA members will recently have received a news bulletin on this subject.

Not a MVDA member?  To find out more, join MVDA now!

www.mvda.org.uk

TWIGWORTH CAR BREAKERS - A SAD DAY FOR ANOTHER MVDA MEMBER

ONLY A FEW DAYS LEFT TO THE 2015 MVDA EVENT

 

Have you booked yet?  Don't delay - make sure of your place NOW!

Wednesday 11th & Thursday 12th November 2015

Solihull (Birmingham)

 

Day 1: Wednesday 11th November

Continuing Competence Revision Day

MVDA networking evening

Day 2: Thursday 12th November

MVDA AGM & Seminar programme

Including presentations from:

·         Hollander International

·         RecoAuto

·         Department for Transport on the Salvage COP

·         Thatcham on their 'used airbags' study &

·         An informal talk by the new Environment Agency ELV specialist

This is your opportunity to come along & ask the questions that matter to you!

Headline sponsor:

IHN Insurance Brokers  www.ihnsure.co.uk

Also generously supported by

RecoAuto www.recoauto.com

Learning Light www.learninglight.com

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DAY 1

Date: Wednesday 11th November.

Location: Regency Hotel Solihull
Stratford Road, Shirley, Solihull, West Midlands, B90 4EB

T:   0121 745 0404

www.corushotels.com/solihull/

Subject: Continuing Competence Revision Day

• In the run-up to the end of ‘period 3’, one of WAMITABs leading training bodies, Learning Light (www.learninglight.com) will be presenting a day of revision modules focused on the 3 ‘generic’ parts of the WAMTIAB multiple choice assessment.  This will be suitable for all tests up to April 2016

Cost:

• MVDA members: £15+VAT per person
• Non-members: £150+VAT per peerson (refundable upon joining MVDA - full payment at time of booking)

Start/ finish time:

• 9.30am reception for 10am start
• 4.00pm close

Restrictions:

• Available only to fully paid up MVDA members (subscription must have been paid at time of booking)
• Full payment must be received at time of booking

Price includes:

• Buffet lunch & refreshments

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Date: Wednesday 11th November.

Location: Gloucester Suite, St. John’s Hotel, Solihull

651 Warwick Rd, Solihull, West Midlands B91 1AT

T. (0121) 711 3000

www.stjohnssolihull.co.uk

Subject: Informal MVDA social/ networking evening.

• Come along & meet/ relax with other MVDA members, presenters etc. in a friendly relaxed atmosphere

Price includes:

• Hot Buffet meal (alcoholic drinks not included)

Cost:

MVDA members: £15+VAT per person

• Non-members: £50+VAT per person

Start/ finish time:

• 7.30pm onwards

Restrictions:

• Subsidized rate for fully paid-up MVDA members only
• Full payment must be received prior to event

Overnight accommodation:

• Available at St. John’s Hotel (discounted rate for MVDA members) £99 B+B (inc VAT) Quote “MVDA” when booking

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DAY 2

Date: Thursday 12th November.

Location: Gloucester Suite, St. John’s Hotel, Solihull, at M42 Junction 5

Subject: MVDA AGM & Seminar Programme.

Cost:

• MVDA members: £FOC
• Non-members: Not admitted

Start/ finish time:

• 9.30am reception for 10am start

Restrictions:

• MVDA members only

Price includes:

• Hot Buffet lunch & all day refreshments (alcoholic drinks not included)

Schedule
Morning:

• Reception
• 10.00: Hollander International
• 10.30: Reco Auto: Green Parts Network
• 11.30: MVDA: AGM (MVDA members only)

Lunch

Afternoon:

• 13.00: Department for Transport: VIC abolition, Salvage CoP & thoughts for the future
• 14.00: Thatcham: Emerging & future vehicle technologies –electronics & materials, reclaimed airbag project
• 15.00: Environment Agency - introduction by Tania Tucker
• 15.15: WAMITAB: Funding for training

PLEASE NOTE

There are only a limited number of spaces available for the Continuing Competence training day & discounted hotel rooms, so it’s strictly first come first served.

PRESTIGE BREAKERS - CURRENTLY BEING DISMANTLED BY MVDA MEMBERS

A very small selection of vehicles currently being dismantled by MVDA members - for more info visit http://dhparts.mvda.org.uk/used-car-parts-breaking-vehicles/
Audi	Q7	2.9D auto	2008	Hills	01695 551 973
Audi	R8	4.2P auto	2007	SCB	0131 333 1098
Audi	TT	2.0D man	2013	ASM	01844 268 940 (Opt 1)
BMW	520	2.0D auto	2013	Pic-up spares	01792 771701
BMW	640	3.0D auto	2013	Charles Trent	01202 744194
BMW	X5	3.0D auto	2011	Partmart	01443 834779
BMW	X6	3.0D auto	2012	Motorhog	0845 408 4000
Mercedes	c200	2.1D auto	2012	ASM	01844 268 940 (Opt 1)
Mercedes	C63 AMG	6.2P auto	2013	ASM	01844 268 940 (Opt 1)
Mercedes	CLS	3.0D auto	2011	Motorhog	0845 408 4000
Volvo	XC60	2.0D man	2014	Car Transplants	01270 627919
Volvo	XC60	2.4 D auto	2014	Motorhog	0845 408 4000
Volvo	XC90	2.4 D auto	2012	Hills	01695 551 973

MORE MOTOR SALVAGE OPTIONS FOR MVDA MEMBERS

GOT VEHICLES FOR SALE?

DON'T USE INTERNET AUCTION?

MVDA members now have the facility to list the vehicles they currently have for sale on the MVDA website.

And it's completely FREE OF CHARGE to all MVDA members.

It's a pretty basic system at the moment, but it can be further developed if it proves useful to/ popular with members.

There are no IT system requirements, other than access to & ability to use later MS XL packages.

If you are a MVDA member, simply log in, download the template, add your vehicle details & upload the file.

Simples!

WILL THE SCRAP METAL PRICE COLLAPSE RESULT IN MORE ABANDONED VEHICLES?

There is growing speculation that a continuing decline in scrap metal values will witness a resurgence of abandoned vehicles, and a sharp contraction in the ELV & metals recycling industries.  Pessimism in the marketplace has been underlined with the recent major metal industry closures, collapses & cutbacks - including the announcement today by TATA about 1200 UK job losses.

In recent months we have heard reports of members starting to refrain from paying for ELVs needing collection or offering only low prices for ELVs delivered into their sites.  The brunt of the value collapse is being experienced by small volume operators but even larger operators in some parts of the country are seeing collected bulk light iron prices as low as £25/ tonne.

It was back in 1999-2003 that abandoned vehicle problems last reached fever pitch, with a reported 330,000 vehicles being abandoned annually – with local government authorities (i.e. the taxpayer) footing the bill.  At the time, it was the weakness in the UK vehicle registration system that allowed this to happen – something that continues largely unchanged to this day, with up to 600,000 vehicles disappearing in the UK every year.  But this was before the ELV Directive was in place.

So the collapse in metal values potentially moves us into uncharted territories.  The EU ELV Directive, & the ‘own marque’ system implemented in the UK, was supposed to ‘head off’ this problem, by making ‘producers’ (vehicle manufacturers) responsible for ‘zero value’ ELVs and all VMs were required to, & have, established ‘free take back’ networks (the two service providers being CarTakeBack & Autogreen).

It remains to be seen exactly what ‘free take back’ really means, but it is generally envisaged to mean ‘free acceptance upon delivery of the ELV by the owner to an appointed take back location’.  Whether it would be acceptable to make a charge for collection is currently unclear.  But it is also our current understanding that service provider contracted ATFs are legally obliged to accept ELVs delivered to them FOC – a situation many thought would never arise.  Non-contracted ATFs have no such acceptance obligations.

MVDA members are invited to let us know, in confidence, how they are currently coping & what values they are managing to obtain for light iron sold to metal merchants.

We will be in touch regularly with Government to see how they view the current situation.