Taking a car to the scrap yard....

[boobles]

Do you still get paid for scraping your car or am i right in saying that "some" scrap dealers now charge us for the privilege of taking it of our hands?

[_Batty_]

you'll recieve between £50 and £100 for a scrap car

[philthy]

My brother is a mechanic, and regularly scraps vehicles.
He is now getting paid for them again, but for a while, he had to charge his customers to cover the cost.
Simple thing, would be to phone your local scrapyard.

Edited by philthy on Tuesday 30th September 10:33

[wildoliver]

50-100 and the rest!

Scrap is about 200 a ton at the moment, I get over £50 from our local gypsy to take it away!

[robinhood21]

I think it can be as much as two hundred quid now. There was a programme on the TV a couple of weeks ago, where a scrap-dealer at an auction was buying up old vehicles for a 100/120 quid, and just for their scrap value.

[boobles]

Cheers everyone.

[rude-boy]

On certain cars the cats alone are worth £50

[tonyvid]

I wonder how long the dead Alfa 156 Sportwagon on the side of the A1 near St Neots will last

[bp1]

Got £200 for my old W126 4 months, and the gearbox was shot. Scrappy didnt even quibble that much, he said 160, I said 200 he said ok

[Jaguar steve]

I got £275 for my old van and he had to put a fivers worth of diesel in it to get it back to the yard.

Not a hope of repairing it and selling on, let alone passing another MOT - which is what a lot of Pikey scrappers are looking for.

Make sure you get the V5 filled in properly 'tho, just in case he's off to do a bank job in it.

Edited by Jaguar steve on Tuesday 30th September 10:55

[rumpelstiltskin]

Around my way(east coast Scotland)£120 if they pick it up,£190 if you take it there.I bought an old MK1 Scirocco for £90,changed my mind about restoring it,spent 8 months making nice money breaking it(£90 for the steering wheel lol),then after this got £120 for it for scrap for a rolling shell with the engine!

Edited by rumpelstiltskin on Tuesday 30th September 10:58

[TommyTT]

Has the value of scrap not dropped a bit recently?

[Hyperion]

Notice you no longer see abandoned cars?
In the local rag, the local scrappy was offering £150 for scrap cars running or not.

[Scott328i]

We bought a fiesta si for £160

ran it for 14 months - all it needed was a battery

Blew it up took battery out scrappper picked it up and gave us £190

Thats what I call free motoring!

[abdulaziz]

Dont sell it to the pikeys !!

[gtr-gaz]

TommyTT said:

Has the value of scrap not dropped a bit recently?

Yes it has. Nearly half of what it was a few months ago.

Don't forget they will charge you for the tyres if you leave them on.

[BoRED S2upid]

Depends what car it is and how much they can sell all the bits for but yes annything up to £200.

[kit_kat]

They came and collected mine for me and gave me £70

[Welshbeef]

Reading Berks offer nothing to pick up Rover 214's.

[stevenM]

just scrapped a car in belfast, £65 per tonne IIRC