Scrapping a car

[PiperCub]

Quick one for you all, what's the score these days with the V5 when you have a car scrapped by one of the many companies that offer this service (such as 'Cartakeback' for instance)?

 

The way I read it is I treat it as per a normal car sale, I give them the tear-off bits and keep the main bit and send that off to DVLA. (The section on scrapping a vehicle only applies if you are actually dismantling/scrapping the thing yourself). Is this what happens in reality?

 

Reason I ask is that I'm about to scrap my 406 in a few weeks so would like to know the score to prevent an arguement on the day. 

[NorthernMonkey]

Generally, the more reputable ones will take the entire V5 and issue you with a printed 'Certificate of Destruction'

Otherwise, give them the logbook but make sure you send off the yellow 'trade' slip with the date and their details.

[Eddie Honda]

I think you give them the whole thing but I'd expect a cert of destruction in return

[Eddie Honda]

https://www.gov.uk/scrapped-and-written-off-vehicles/how-to-scrap-vehicle

[PiperCub]

^^ That's what I'd hope but if someone's going to pick the car up, he's not going to give it out straight away so I was a bit dubious about giving up the whole V5 these days. 

[PiperCub]

Ah, just seen your new reply, that's more like it, I can inform them direct that it's going to an ATF.

 

Want to do it right as do not want a bunch of tickets/aggro from the police or DVLA, Possibly a bit neurotic but don't want hassle. 

[JohnK]

Usual situation for me when I'm buying something in to scrap is fill out yellow slip, owner posts that off and I take the full log book. What happens to it after that is my issue, the owners liability is discharged when they send that yellow slip

 

Edit - my mate who runs a legit scrapyard does the same too.

[Kiltox]

As JohnK says - they complete the yellow "selling to trade" form and give it to you, they retain the rest.

[UltraWomble]

CTB issued an email Cert of Destruction within minutes of picking the car up.

 

Seems a lot of it is done electronically now.

[PiperCub]

Thanks gents. 

[holbeck]

 

I drove this into a scrapyard.

 

They took the docs and gave me a cert of destruction in return.

[Pillock]

As long as you have either sent off the traders slip, or get a CoD, then you're fine.

Some "scrapyards" won't issue the CoD, they'll instead buy the car from you as a trader to scope out possibly selling it as a runner.

Someone we know had their Ford Galaxy taken away by a scrapyard when the timing chain snapped, 9 months later it passed me on the M42. Looks like they'd just sold it to the scrapper, in goes an engine from a similar crashed model, out goes a runner to the auctions. If they'd have issued the CoD then it's almost impossible to reverse that.

[PiperCub]

^^ Yes, that's pretty much exactly the situation I want to avoid. I don't want to still be the registered keeper in such a case.