I need to scrap an (LPG) car - what's a good price?

[sploosh]

Bought an '98 Volvo v40 with an LPG conversion at the end of last summer when my wife thought she was going to lose her job / company car.

I was going to put it through an MOT and pass it on ..... but I can't see any profit in it and a lot of hassle so I've decided to scrap it.

Anyone know what the going price should be? (will have to be collected)

Will the LPG be a problem or does that make it more valuable?

Huge tank in the boot with single point conversion.

[Liquid Knight]

£200 per Ton at the moment so put it on eBay (free listing this weekend) or weigh it in.

[James_N]

never understood why people dont MOT a car for the sake of £30 odd unless they are certain it will fail. At the end of the day, if you MOT it and it passes, it will make much more than a few hundred on ebay, especially being LPGed

If it fails, then chuck it on ebay for spares.

[Caruso]

LPG kit should be worth something depending what sort it is.

When my father's LPG car went bang he sold the LPG kit back to the guy who installed it and got £400.

[redgriff500]

If its not a total wreck then stick it in for an MOT - even a fail with a short list is better than nothing.

Then stick it on Ebay.

[RobbieL]

I bet quite a few people may be interested in something like that as a workhorse. Me for one.............

[sploosh]

Phoned a bloke half an hour ago.

£140 cash.

He's just driven it away.

I paid £200 ... last year

Took the brand new battery out for my other car (£140)

On top of the £200 its cost me -

£10 oil filter £30 of Oil £25 Sparkplugs £15 seatbelt (from scrappy last week d'oh).... and it looked to have £30 of fuel in it (if he hadn't been so quick I might have got some of that out.)

So I'm down, but I've got my drive back and don't have to think about all those weekends getting it sorted.

I am slightly worried that he's driving around in a sorned car that is registered to me. He said he was a car dealer and has filled in the right section of the log book which will be posted to DVLA on Monday.

[andymach23]

Can you email the DVLA to let them know you have disposed of it?

I did this after I got rid of a Clio for £80. I emailed the DVA in Northern Ireland to let them know, as it would be a couple of days before they got the V5 document. They accepted this as documentary proof that I had sold the car on the date and time the email was received.

[magpie215]

I have now taken to writing the time on the V5 when I move a vehicle on

[sploosh]

andymach23 said:

Can you email the DVLA to let them know you have disposed of it?

I did this after I got rid of a Clio for £80. I emailed the DVA in Northern Ireland to let them know, as it would be a couple of days before they got the V5 document. They accepted this as documentary proof that I had sold the car on the date and time the email was received.

Might well do that - good idea

I reckon the car would have got through the MOT... but that would have been another £35, and because it is my car the "ok to drive somebody else's car" clause on my insurance would be invalid so would have been a minimum £25+ for the insurance just to drive it to the MOT and back. Then there is the hassle of e-bay..... so pretty happy really (would have been even happier if I'd thought to syphon off the fuel though!)


Mentioned the space on the drive in the same sentence as "MR2" to the wife.... one lives in hope.

[boredofmyoldname]

Bugger missed this, was about to ask some Qs about the LPG kit and offer to take the car off your hands if it would have fitted mine.

[sploosh]

boredofmyoldname said:

Bugger missed this, was about to ask some Qs about the LPG kit and offer to take the car off your hands if it would have fitted mine.

It was a single point system and somewhat .... agricultural.