Scrap value for a Mk1 Ford Ka?

[g3org3y]

Sold my sister's old (MoT failure) Mk 1 (1999) Ford Ka for scrap yesterday.

Anyone guess how much I got for it?

I was pleasantly surprised but that may be because I had very low expectations!

[cj2013]

£100 is normally the rate, I got around that for a Puma not so long ago

[Toaster Pilot]

Did you actually sell it for scrap or to a trader that will tart up the bare minimum and have it in the classifieds next week for £995?

If a proper scrap yard, £100 even is pushing it around here!

[aka_kerrly]

Let's see, standard scrap is £90-100 per tonne and a Ford Ka weighs less than 1 Tonne , nearer 850kg which ought to suggest it's worth barely £80 but I have heard of one or two people getting nearer £150 and other scrap yards (like the two nearest to me) who will not pay you FFFF all for a Ka.

[SS2.]

£80-£90 seems about the limit around these parts.

Add a tenner if it's got alloys.

Add another tenner if it can be dropped off at the scrappy, rather than collected.

[Toaster Pilot]

RemoveMyCar pay £75

[g3org3y]

Some good estimates.

£80. Though must admit I expected £50, as such was pleased. Collected within an hour.

[trickywoo]

SS2. said:

Add a tenner if it's got alloys.

Alloys should actually be worth quite a bit.

I got £20 a while ago for an old greenhouse frame and I'm sure prices have gone up since.

[Toaster Pilot]

What is the actual scrap value of alloy wheels, anyone?

I just bought a set for a Corsa C for £20

[SS2.]

trickywoo said:

Alloys should actually be worth quite a bit.

I got £20 a while ago for an old greenhouse frame and I'm sure prices have gone up since.

A tenner is all my local scrappy will offer.

That said, looking at the recent office block, showroom and complete refurb they've just completed, it is probably way too cheap.

[Steve vRS]

Mk1 Ka. Did it fail as it wasn't worth the labour price to replace the front headlight bulb?

[g3org3y]

SS2. said:

Add a tenner if it's got alloys.

No alloys. Removed (and kept) the Halfords wheel trims I originally fitted as my sister didn't like the look of steel wheels.


I'm sure I remember the days when you had to pay someone to take scrap cars away. I'm not that old so it couldn't have been that long ago.

[anonymous-user]

aka_kerrly said:

Let's see, standard scrap is £90-100 per tonne and a Ford Ka weighs less than 1 Tonne , nearer 850kg

If it's much like most of the Mk1 Ford Kas that I see then it'll have lost about 100KG to rust holes by now

[Gilhooligan]

I had a rotten ford KA which ran out of MOT. It was never going to pass another so phoned a few scrappies. They all offered roughy £80 if I drove it to them.
Ended up going on that my car take back (or something like that) site. They picked it up and gave me £155 for it!

[MG CHRIS]

Scrap prices have dropped big time this year, 2 years ago scrap was £180per tonne. I break a few mx5 for parts beginning of last year I scraped a mk2 shell full of scrap with 10 car batteries and 2 cars a mx5 shell weighs 400kg with the scrap and the rest got £180 all in.
£90 for the scrap think it was £130 per tonne and it weighed 700kg the 2 cats were £40 and £50 for the batteries.

I scrapped 2 mx5 shells last weekend with scrap combined weight 850kg and got £65 quid 4 batteries and 2 cats and got more for them than the scrap hardly worth the effort these days.

[konark]

It's all very well talking about scrap at £90 a tonne but if you need a replacement door, mirror or any second-hand other bits they don't sell them by weight; A scrapper only has to sell the bonnet and doors to get his £80 back.

[SS2.]

That's called business.

[g3org3y]

dme123 said:

aka_kerrly said:

Let's see, standard scrap is £90-100 per tonne and a Ford Ka weighs less than 1 Tonne , nearer 850kg

If it's much like most of the Mk1 Ford Kas that I see then it'll have lost about 100KG to rust holes by now

All the classic places. It had lost so much weight I almost stuck a CSL badge on it!

MG CHRIS said:

Scrap prices have dropped big time this year,

That's what the chap who collected it mentioned as well.

[Toaster Pilot]

g3org3y said:

That's what the chap who collected it mentioned as well.

That's what ANYONE I've ever sold scrap to EVER has said, no matter what the prices were like!