A question about scrapping old vehicles...

[pa_broon74]

How many monkeys would it take to scrap a transit van using only rolls...

I'm joking! Ok, it was shit but never mind.

I need to scrap two vehicles. A transit van, no MOT on it and no hope of attaining one and a VW polo decent length of MOT but its got a fueling problem I can't identify (its bogging down when revving, probable [although not impossible@Hetzer] fuel pump issues. )

Anyway the van is fucked and since both vehicles got their windows tanned in over the weekend the car is essentially a write off too.

My question is, is it a scrap metal dealer or a scrap car dealer I'd go to, do they have a residual value and if so where is best to realise it. Although the car is mine, the money for both is going to the Local Scout group (who ran the van) so I'm not being tight.

Thanks in advance.


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[Kickstart]

Hi

Needs to be a licenced recycler for cars. The log books need to go to the DVLA with the box filled in for them being scrapped, and the DVLA will only accept that now from a licenced recycling facility. If you send it in they will now, as of a few weeks ago, just send it back and refuse to accept it.

All the best

Keith
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[Chalky.]

Scrap metal is good money at the moment

You'll see 120ish for a car (round here anyway) and possibly more for the van.

Have a ring around a few local scrappies and see who'll offer you the most, it needs to be a licensed car place.

[pa_broon74]

Cool.

I was confused by an ad I saw on gumtree, a company in Glasgow making a big deal about how they were 'licensed' to dispose of cars and would be happy (like they were doing you a big favour) to scrap your car free of charge, no mention of scrap value. The ad has since disappeared.

I have a couple of numbers to try.

Thanks again.


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[SlimRick]

Fill the fuel tank with sand, and soak the seats with water before they get weighed in......every little helps!

[N cee thirty]

was suprised how much scraps going for

we've got a big skip here and there doing it for £160 a ton
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[WildGoose]

Another thought, Mr Broon, is the Transit a 85-2000 model?

Does the alternator work? I need one.

Will pay, obviously.

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[T0MMY]

If you're not in a hurry, why not try to sell the car on a free ads site or whatever? It won't cost you anything and you never know, it does have an MOT someone may buy it eventually, even just for parts.

Put it this way, on a long enough timescale, anything is possible
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[pa_broon74]

This was what I was thinking.

Selling it to a scrap dealer, they just weigh it and off it goes to be crushed. But what about scrap yards or for spares or repairs.

I would say though and it was quite nippy, with the VW polo I've tried to get bits for it from the scrappy but its been usless because the same bits go all the time and the scrap cars usually have the bits missing anyway.

Passenger side electric window motor for example. Like hens teeth so they are, the chances of finding a decent example is infinitely high... (But presumably not impossible.) The one I did eventually get lasted fortnight then conked out.

I would remove the alternator for you goose, but you're aways away, not sure how you'd be able to get you hands on it.


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[Marmalade]

To avoid the return of log book from DVLA refusing to accept you've scrapped it just tear off the yellow bit, fill it in with imaginary scrap/car dealer details and send it off.
Job done.
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[Skudd]

I just rang a guy up out of the paper who gave upto £100 for scrap vehicles, Got £100 for the scrap vehicle. Came within the hour with cash. Signed the paper to him and that was that.
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[Hobes]

When you take a vehicle into a scrap yard, they should raise a certificate of destruction for you, thus removing the need to send in the V5, which is what we do at the company I work for.

When the vehicle is brought in, it is taken to the ELV shed where all hazardous waste materials are removed, as well as the higher value materials, Cat's, alloy wheels etc.

Registration, VIN's etc are recorded as the vehicle passes through the ELV shed, these are then handed back to the office where we then log the vehicle as destroyed directly with the DVLA via a website.

We often will produce C.O.D's on weighing in the vehicle, or if it's not possible will post them the next day.

If you can obtain the C.O.D from the Scrappy you're using then this will cover you if the DVLA start asking questions, although in my experience once the C.O.D is raised that is that.

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