Can I sell my old car battery?

Rolandtheroadie

Got £7.50 the other week for 2, no real diesel costs and I got another £44 from what I had lying around/lifted from the streets. Also scored a Dyson (2 broken ones with different broken bits).

rosie383

scotsman4th wrote: »

Got £7.50 the other week for 2, no real diesel costs and I got another £44 from what I had lying around/lifted from the streets. Also scored a Dyson (2 broken ones with different broken bits).

Was that from a scrapyard? Do they buy batteries?

Rolandtheroadie

More a scrap metal merchant than a car breaker.

s_b

very heavy fine if you are caught carrying more than 4 scrap batteries and no license to carry them
this is in addition to your waste licence requirements

i can take them for free of course if you post up your address and are reasonably local:)
i will obviously give all your children a free balloon:D

00ec25

for reasons of convenience at the time I "allowed" an RAC patrol man to change my car battery 3 weeks ago, whilst doing it he told me he regularly takes such batteries to a local scrap metal merchant and thus supplements his pay selling them off that way. he said that last lot he sold have got him £48 - I have no idea how many he sold or what rate he got given he is in the "trade" and presumably a regular supplier

as others have said, the price you will get will be at best at few £ so watch what it will cost in fuel to get there

Rolandtheroadie

s_b wrote: »

very heavy fine if you are caught carrying more than 4 scrap batteries and no license to carry them
this is in addition to your waste licence requirements

i'd be ok, they wouldnt see them for all the washing machines and cookers:D

longplay

I know motor factors pay for old batteries (£3 was going rate, because they get money from battery manufacturers), but I imagine you'd need account with them to get it rather than just walk in. Worth a check though.

Rolandtheroadie

longplay wrote: »

I know motor factors pay for old batteries (£3 was going rate, because they get money from battery manufacturers), but I imagine you'd need account with them to get it rather than just walk in. Worth a check though.

Not yet where I go, but theres things going on just now to try and stop scrap metal merchants paying cash.
Instead, the money was to be paid into the sellers bank account.

waynedance

Money saving gone mad, selling an old battery.

Rolandtheroadie

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16738000

Looks like the payment to bank accounts may be sooner rather than later.