You seem to have got it. Basically there are 2 ways, other than just paying up of course.
1) Do the dismantling yourself, and as you demonstrate, probably more than cover the final scrapping charge
2) Advertise the whole car free, buyer to remove. Cheap and easy if you don't want the bother of doing the work.
You may find that a scrapyard will take a totally stripped out shell cheaper, because there will be no environmental costs for them like draining fluids, removing rubber and plastic bits etc. You can bin the bits you don't want.
Finally you could cut up the shell yourself and put in in recycling skips a bit at a time. Free if you have the time!
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I like this thread!. SHMBO would object to the steptoes back yard approach so I prefer to get rid of them at scrapyard minus one year with a full MOT. If I missed that boat i'd go for 2) above.
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The other car I stripped was a Fiat Regata, which I bought for spares for a car I had.
I then stripped the car over a couple of days and the bare shell with the grotty doors, tailgate and a load of other scrap just thrown in there was removed FOC. The chap that came just took it up the road to a scrap yard half a mile away and got around £10 for it I believe.
Although buying the car and getting it home cost £75, I saved about £200 in spares (incuding tyres on the same size wheels!) and managed about £200 for the bits I didn't need. It turned out that the problem I was having in finding spares for this car was a common one!
After I sold my regata I then went about trying to get rid of all the bits left over that were piled up in the back of the garage, that I had kept just in case I needed them.
I think I sold a few more bits for around £60 or so, then advertised the remaining bits (including short engine - no head, gearbox, exhaust system, bonnet, bumpers, windows etc etc) for £25 to clear.
A couple of chaps who were into banger racing a regata turned up and thrust £30 into my hand insisting I kept the change. They didn't want the bumpers or the glass so those items got binned.
In total that car was worth about £450 to me in the end!
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"The chap that came just took it up the road to a scrap yard half a mile away and got around £10 for it I believe"
So why do they charge to take away a whole car, which presumably has more scrap value? Anyway, you seem to have cracked it!
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