Scrapped a car but have since seen it around town...

hgotsparkle

In 2011 I scrapped my old Ford Fiesta as the work it needed doing on it would cost more than the value of the car. I got £150 for it from a metal scrapyard.

At the beginning of this month, me and my mum were driving around the town we lived in when I had the Fiesta (she still lives near it, I live further north now) and I noticed a green Fiesta, with the same stickers I had on mine, and then I noticed the registration number, and it is exactly the same!

I've just done a .gov check on the car and it is currently taxed and MOTd.

Is this in any way illegal?

I know the scrap dealer gave me a slip from the V5C but I won't have it anymore, or if I did, I wouldn't know where it would be now.

roonaldo

I've just done a .gov check on the car and it is currently taxed and MOTd.

Is this in any way illegal?

I know the scrap dealer gave me a slip from the V5C but I won't have it anymore, or if I did, I wouldn't know where it would be now.

Is it legal? yes! You didnt scrap it, why do you think it was scrapped? did you see it being crushed? You simply sold it to them thinking it was rubbish, they thought otherwise and repaired it. Not sure how repairing a car you legally own is any way illegal. They have taxed and MOT'd too which is necessary to drive a car on the road.

Perhaps think twice thinking your car was a banger and giving it away for next to nothing. They thought thank you very much.

Remember if they had to tools to repair it then they may have got it back on the road for next to nothing, where it would have perhaps cost you hundreds at a local garage.

Inner_Zone

You presumably missed a recent episode of Scrappers where a Rover was sold for scrap for £150 to scrap dealer and then resold by the same scrap dealer as a runner with MOT for £650 all on the same day.

As above next time try selling it before scrapping.

hgotsparkle

I thought it was scrapped because I took it to a scrap yard.....

No I don't watch, or have even heard of Scrappers!

It just perplexed me to see my old car that I thought was nothing more than a cube of crushed meta, driving around perfectly fine!

I would have tried to sell it, but the work I do, relying heavily on a full working car meant I couldn't afford to run a newer car at the time, whilst trying to sell another, or risk not having a working car to get to work so my only available option was the scrap yard.

JimmyTheWig

I guess it's up to the scrap yard what they do with it once you sell it to them.

mum2one

once you sell the car on it becomes the property of the new owner, whether or not its a scrap yard - I would be the same as you presume that it will be scrapped - but there free, as long all the paperwork was dealt with from then that classes as the end of your ownership x

InsideInsurance

Selling it to a scrap yard is really no different to selling it to anyone else. Only if it is a Cat A or Cat B total loss are there any special rules.

Its up to the new owner, scrap yard or otherwise, to break it and sell it for metal value, break it and sell it as parts, sell it as it is or repair it and sell it as a normal car.

Nothing illegal or underhanded about it. You got the money you agreed to sell it for and they've decided to return the vehicle to the road

IwtbDebtfree

If it makes you feel any better, I did the same/similar, only left the V5 for them to fill in, turns out they (the fella I gave the keys and paperwork to), sold it "off the books" to someone who was less then reputable.... First I knew was a couple of weeks later when the Epsom Armed response unit arrived at my front door..... ARMED!!! just as I was tucking into my tea.... turns out the car had been pulled over for a routine stop, and the driver pulled a gun (turned out to be a BB pellet gun !!) on the police before driving off..... they turned up at my house some 40 miles from the incident less than 30 minutes later..... thankfully they knocked first !!!

Lesson learnt on my part......

attila_

Isn't there the yellow section that needs to be filled out in the log book if it's scrapped?

I am sure I did this. But yes you sold it to a scrap yard and they are entitled to sell it on.

attila_

http://www.removemycar.co.uk/scrap-my-car.html

skivenov

One man's trash is another man's transport. I've done 1000's of miles in cars that people thought were rubbish to be thrown away, that I sorted out and got back on the road.

You sold them an item, they did the logbook and did as they saw best with it.