How can ensure/find out if, my car was scrapped?

Rolandtheroadie

atrixblue.-MFR-. wrote: »

quite true but how many would slip the net and end up in auction do you think?

traders who have an equivelant to scrapage "swapage" put the swappage cars in auctions.

None.
Swappage is just an advertising gimmick. theyre ripping you off on new price (so similar to scrappage it's frightening).
Do you think a licenced vehicle dismantlers going to risk its licence for a 50% share in a £500 car?
Do you think a dealership that sells brand new cars will risk being known as a company that defrauds for a 50% share in a £500 car.
All this assumes the cars actually worth £500.

Rolandtheroadie

And just to edit, how much does a £500 auction buy actually net the seller?

Inactive

atrixblue.-MFR-. wrote: »

quite true but how many would slip the net and end up in auction do you think?

traders who have an equivelant to scrapage "swapage" put the swappage cars in auctions.

" Scrappage " is strictly controlled by legally enforceable rules, " swappage " is pure sales hype, two entirely different things.

atrixblue.-MFR-.

Inactive wrote: »

" Scrappage " is strictly controlled by legally enforceable rules, " swappage " is pure sales hype, two entirely different things.

yip you are correct. i do know the difference hence the commment equiverlant.

atrixblue.-MFR-.

scotsman4th wrote: »

And just to edit, how much does a £500 auction buy actually net the seller?

what trader takes a £500 car to auction? just to lose on it none! i see your point, and yes i agree that dealers wouldnt risk theyre licence, im not talking about all the cars slipping the net just the odd one or two that are worth something.

Inactive

atrixblue.-MFR-. wrote: »

what trader takes a £500 car to auction? just to lose on it none! i see your point, and yes i agree that dealers wouldnt risk theyre licence, im not talking about all the cars slipping the net just the odd one or two that are worth something.

But, they cannot " slip the net ", the system is designed so that a car has to be scrapped under the scheme, the dealer has to have a certificate of destruction from a licenced breaker, the V5 has to be forwarded to DVLA with the scrappage documented.

Kurtis_Blue

Apples2 wrote: »

May not be it's sole purpose but to say it has nothing to do with it is a bit shallow minded.



http://www.berr.gov.uk/whatwedo/sectors/automotive/scrappage/page51068.html

Scraping a working old car and buying a newly produced one is far from good idea for the environment no matter if the new cars are running on thimbles of diesel, petrol or anything else.

As with anything else from the government its absolutely nothing do do with the environment and every thing to do with £££ and our dependence on expensive diminishing energy reserves.

BenL

The car will have been broken up for parts by the authorised treatment facility and then sold on for repairs to other cars.

The engines etc are then re-used and haven't actually been taken off the road.

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/autoexpressnews/247309/recycled_engines_blow_to_scrappage.html

BenL

If the car was something special the dealer can apply to have it brought back out of the scheme like this Morris Minor

http://www.carpictures.com/vehicle/09I9B285924051.html

Inactive

" On the down side, the car can’t ever be put back on the road legally or exported as the DVLA have already issued a certificate of destruction. However this needn’t stop it from being used as a static display in a museum, for example. "

Not really out of the scheme..