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Scrapper flow

I thought you might be interested in a new common sight on the A1 in the Netherlands: Almost every time I join this motorway at Deventer I see a Polish registered car transporter crammed with British registered cars - presumably they are off to Poland to be stripped for parts - and I'm guessing that is where many of the scrapped cars go. I thought you might like to know (though probably you already do).

Asked on 15 August 2009 by

Answered by Honest John
I saw it today, on the M3 heading South. All reasonable looking cars, all slightly over 10 years old, big 'Polski' sign in the truck’s front window. I was tipped off last Saturday that some cars going for scrappage were being certified scrapped, then sold for export. I can't see anything wrong in that. In the past, a certificate of destruction and a certificate of export virtually amounted to the same thing. And it’s hardly fraud, when the gov gets more back in VAT than it contributes to scrappage and would not have got that at all without the scrappage incentive. There's also a rule that once the new car is delivered, the scrappage car has to be certificated as scrapped within 15 days or the car manufacturer does not get the government money to hand back to the dealer. This could be a huge issue in September, assuming most cars for scrappage are actually scrapped.
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