Best place to scrap a car?

diesel_dog

I'm not a fan of ebay for the above reasons by ilikewatch. You could always donate the car to a local collage/school if they still take them.

motorguy

Firstly, a scrapyard wont want it as its too old, therefore you're in to the realms of weighing it in.

To put the takecarback price in perspective, i weighed in a 1999 ford fiesta, loaded it up with 12 steel rims, an engine from another car and a gearbox from another car and got £147. Now, i took the alloy wheels off and the battery out, so the alloys will be worth £40 when stripped to weigh in, and the battery £5.

For the sheer lack of hassle and the fact they will pick it up i would take their offer.

motorguy

ilikewatch wrote: »

That's a fair point, but I still think that if you stripped lights, trim, instruments, mirrors, engine auxillieries, brake calipers, wipers etc. and stuck the lot on a 10 day listing starting at 99p, then you would stand to make £100+ after fees, and still be able to scrap the rest of the car for the best part of £150.

If you had the time/space/inclination to strip panels/doors/bumpers you could do even better.

Its too old a car. Anything less than 8-10 years old, yes, but not a 14 year old 205.

Plus you'd spend at least a day stripping those parts and another day photographing, listing, packaging up and taking to the post office.

Been there, done that, not worth the hassle on such an old car.

[Deleted User]

The only things that are worth ebaying is probably undamaged body panels, doors, colour coded mirror caps. These are what sell when someone has a damaged panel in the same colour. But you could still be waiting a while for them to sell. Under the bonnet stuff, as already said, hundreds on ebay so not worth it.

Stooby2

ilikewatch wrote:

Alternatively, someone will win the auction, then not contact you for several days. When you eventually get in touch with them then:

a)they will have changed their mind
b)they will profess to know nothing about the auction
c)they will explain that their young child actually made the bid in error
d)they will ask you where the nearest tube station is to your home town, then be amazed and indignant that you don't live in London

Well I can only say that's not been my experience. Sold two cars and a motorbike on eBay without any hassle. One bloke came from Leeds (to south London) to pick up a well rusted Discovery

If (and this is extremely unlikely) they actually pay for and remove the vehicle they will hassle you for months for a partial/full refund because of various issues they/their mates have spotted with it,

Nope never had that - if you list all the known issues and clearly state that there could be other problems you don't know about they have no comeback.

ilikewatch

Stooby2 wrote: »

Nope never had that - if you list all the known issues and clearly state that there could be other problems you don't know about they have no comeback.

Although they don't have any legal comeback they can still be a complete PITA - a couple of years ago I sold a J reg Citroen AX on behalf of a friend who had moved abroad.

I described the car in detail, with loads of supersize photo's, but stated that although it had 10 months MOT, and started up fine, I was not insured to drive it, and as such could not comment on how it drove. The chap who bought it was a motor trader from Dover who won the auction with a bid of less than £200 and travelled to Lincoln (?) to collect the car with a trailer.

The day after he collected it the emails started that he had identified an issue with it that was going to cost £100 to rectify and he wanted me to split the cost and refund him £50 - I told him to get on his bike.

Over the next 3 months both I and the parents of the girl I had sold it for (their address was on the V5) received what was probably 100's of emails, letters, phone calls, solicitors letters, and engineers reports, culminating in the buyer driving back to Lincoln with the car to demand a full refund. In the end I'd estimate that the guy must have spent several hundred pounds and 100's of hours of his time kicking up a fuss for the sake of a knackered brake caliper on an 18 year old car which ended up being dumped outside my house until it got clamped for having no tax and presumably cost him a load more in DVLA fines.

Oh well, there's nowt so queer as folks.

londonTiger

selling the car part by part is expensive and extremely costly in time put in.

You'll probably make £500 profit from it, but do you want to waste all your weekends doing this? Being inexperienced you're going to take a lot longer than a scrappy to take it apart.

If you're time poor, just scrap it for £150 or so you'll get for it. Also will save you grief from neighbours. neighbours hate it when someone has a half falling apart car on their street.

loracan1

I got more from cartakeback than any of the local scrap merchants were offering - including those who would have wanted me to drive the car there. Less hassle all round.

londonTiger

ilikewatch wrote: »

Although they don't have any legal comeback they can still be a complete PITA - a couple of years ago I sold a J reg Citroen AX on behalf of a friend who had moved abroad.

I described the car in detail, with loads of supersize photo's, but stated that although it had 10 months MOT, and started up fine, I was not insured to drive it, and as such could not comment on how it drove. The chap who bought it was a motor trader from Dover who won the auction with a bid of less than £200 and travelled to Lincoln (?) to collect the car with a trailer.

The day after he collected it the emails started that he had identified an issue with it that was going to cost £100 to rectify and he wanted me to split the cost and refund him £50 - I told him to get on his bike.

Over the next 3 months both I and the parents of the girl I had sold it for (their address was on the V5) received what was probably 100's of emails, letters, phone calls, solicitors letters, and engineers reports, culminating in the buyer driving back to Lincoln with the car to demand a full refund. In the end I'd estimate that the guy must have spent several hundred pounds and 100's of hours of his time kicking up a fuss for the sake of a knackered brake caliper on an 18 year old car which ended up being dumped outside my house until it got clamped for having no tax and presumably cost him a load more in DVLA fines.

Oh well, there's nowt so queer as folks.

lol

some people take business too personally and end up fighting a lost cause like this.