What's the best way to scrap a car?

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Sat 25 Jun 2011 14:06
What's the best way to scrap a car? - rowan_m

Do you phone around scrapyards, sell it off for parts or use one of the sites like www.cartakeback.com - I looked at it and they collect the car, sort out the paperwork etc.

Was wondering what other people do?

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Sat 25 Jun 2011 14:35
What's the best way to scrap a car? - RT

Depends on your reason for scrapping it - if it's simply old age your local scrap yard will pay it's tonnage value at scrap rates but that usually depends on you getting the car to the scrap yard. They'll probably come an collect but you won't get cash then.

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Sat 25 Jun 2011 19:22
What's the best way to scrap a car? - unthrottled

I got £100 cash with collection a couple of years ago-and this old banger didn't have a cat! Doubt that you would get that now though.

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Sun 26 Jun 2011 04:07
What's the best way to scrap a car? - 1litregolfeater

Is this just a free advert? aka spam

The most lucrative way to scrap it is to advertise the parts on a well known auction site with the proviso that the winners come to claim their winnings by disassembling them on your front lawn.

Give it a few months and you'll be a neighbourhood hero, local mayor no doubt with an MBE in the bag

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Sun 26 Jun 2011 09:06
What's the best way to scrap a car? - Mike H

Scrapped a 1996 Renault Megane last year, we took it to the local scrappie and managed to push him to £70 cash. Probably worth more for the parts but breaking the car at home wasn't an option - no space and too much hassle.

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Sun 26 Jun 2011 11:12
What's the best way to scrap a car? - Bobbin Threadbare

I thought you just took it to the scrapyard. I remember my dad having a car he bought for a tenner off a mate and he just drove it to a scrappy in Birkenhead and got £50 for the bits. Bus home.

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Sun 26 Jun 2011 21:02
What's the best way to scrap a car? - John Boy

We've just scrapped an R-reg Saxo. The scrapyard advertised in the local paper. We'd have got £100 if we drove it there. It had a flat tyre, so we let them collect. They paid £80 cash and sent the Certificate of Destruction a couple of days later.

Edited by John Boy on 26/06/2011 at 21:03

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Sun 26 Jun 2011 21:21
What's the best way to scrap a car? - Bobbin Threadbare

"Certificate of Destruction" - awesome name.

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Sun 26 Jun 2011 22:01
What's the best way to scrap a car? - unthrottled

Trust the rugger b***** to gravitate towards anything involving bashing things.

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Sun 26 Jun 2011 22:28
What's the best way to scrap a car? - Bobbin Threadbare

:-P

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Mon 27 Jun 2011 09:21
What's the best way to scrap a car? - Paul G1pdc

HI-YA

over my way ASM (Aylesbury scrap metal) are advertising on Jack Fm radio station that they will pay £100 min, for any scrap car, and even pick it up (no doubt depending upon how far they need to travel.

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Paul

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Mon 27 Jun 2011 10:33
What's the best way to scrap a car? - rcspeirs

I scrapped my old Mondeo a couple of months ago - finally became uneconomic to repair after years of cheap and faithful service.

Scrap dealers in London were offering between £100 to £170 per tonne on the day I phoned, if you took the car to them. That's more than the "webuyany etc" type people were offering. The scrap people paid in cash on the spot - and certificate of destruction came a few days later. Of course scrap yards are always in "interesting" parts of town so bit of a miserable walk before I found a bus stop to get home!

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Fri 24 May 2013 06:36
What's the best way to scrap a car? - Olivia Burgess

Advert attempt deleted.

Edited by Avant on 25/05/2013 at 01:35

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