Disposing of a bare shell. Car Takeback, or?

[overrun]

I have a shell to get shot of, no running gear, no steering rack etc, totally gutted.

Now the question is how do I go about it?

 

It won't go on my trailer easily and I don't fancy gouging the shit out of it to do so. I have borrowed some bread trays from a mate, so will push it outside for collection.

I could reattach running gear to some degree, but I can't really be arsed. All I want is a C.O.D.

 

Last time I done this, I rang a bloke with a HIAB and he came and picked it up, job's a good 'un!

Now though, I hear HIAB ownership is not so common?

 

So, will Car Takeback take a shell? I don't expect owt for it. Or do I have to ring some dude on Gumtree?

 

[cobblers]

Cartakeback would turn up expecting a full car and probably moan like fuck, but since they've already driven out to you they'd probably still take it but give you nowt, it might be worth a go? I'd personally just ring people out of the paper or something, it's worked before.

[overrun]

Cartakeback would turn up expecting a full car and probably moan like fuck, but since they've already driven out to you they'd probably still take it but give you nowt, it might be worth a go? I'd personally just ring people out of the paper or something, it's worked before.

 

I have never used CTB and didn't know if they had an option for shells etc. As no doubt they weigh most stuff in.

I know they don't take kindly to bits and bobs missing when they are expecting a whole car, but I don't think I would waste their time or mine by trying it on!

 

I have seen a suitable looking wagon on Gumtree. Will ring them tomorrow and see if they will play ball.

[UltraWomble]

eBay - list it for a quid.

I bet some bugger buys it.

 

I cant believe the utter shit Ive got rid of on eBay that would otherwise have gone to the tip

[hpi_matrix]

Put it on facebook car group, someone will shoe horn it onto a transit. I wouldnt worry about COD, just write to DVLA and tell them its scrapped or send of the V5 off in the name of Mr Fake, 123 Fake street, Fakesville.

[Stixy]

If its just a bare shell just get a local company to take it away  and either sorn it and forget forever or send the v5c off with a letter saying you have personaly destroyed and scrapped it and it wont be going on the road 

[hpi_matrix]

 sorn it and forget forever

 

Have to Sorn cars yearly nowadays

[adw1977]

Have to Sorn cars yearly nowadays

I thought DVLA had got rid of the need to SORN annually, once done that's it until a change of keeper.

[SiC]

Didn't someone on here cut their car shell up with a saw and angle grinder small enough to fit in a boot/people carrier, then dispose of the remains at their local tip?

[overrun]

Didn't someone on here cut their car shell up with a saw and angle grinder small enough to fit in a boot/people carrier, then dispose of the remains at their local tip?

 

Done similar before, but can I fuck be arsed to, this time!

 

It will be disappearing one way or another. Signing it into another name is always an option, not keen on just letting the SORN renew forever - in case they change the rules lol.

[overrun]

eBay - list it for a quid.

I bet some bugger buys it.

 

I cant believe the utter shit Ive got rid of on eBay that would otherwise have gone to the tip

 

No one's gonna want this one, after I massaged it a few times.TBH IME it is really hard to shift a bare shell on as a project anyway, unless it is something rare and old.

 

 

Etc.

[sierraman]

I'm weighing in a Focus estate Thursday, £60 picked up from my house. Then again it's got the cat on and a battery. Scrap dealers buy cars based on the value per tonne unless it's something a bit special they know they'll make money on the parts. Mines incomplete, missing the ancilliaries like the starter and alternator. Because it's got such a low parts value he's just after the metal. I'd ignore Car take nab and just ring the breakers up. I'm guessing if they've got to hiab the shell it's dry so it's less work for them. At a guess if you can get a breaker to pick it up he might give you £20-30 for it at a push.

[Stixy]

I thought DVLA had got rid of the need to SORN annually, once done that's it until a change of keeper.

sorn lasts now until its re taxed or change of ownership , i have several long term sorns 

 

I was messed about by the place that handles the v5's  so now when i scrap a shell i make sure its sorned and shred the v5  

[Eddie Honda]

Annual SORN was scrapped Dec 2013: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dvla-cuts-unnecessary-red-tape-for-motorists


Ring and say you have a bare shell - http://www.seahammetals.co.uk/scrap-your-car/2817717

You might get fuck all for it, but it'll be out your hair. It a while ago now, but I got fuck all for my shell over here and I took it to my local -
 

DSCF1906 by E Honda, on Flickr

[sierraman]

Done similar before, but can I fuck be arsed to, this time!

 

It will be disappearing one way or another. Signing it into another name is always an option, not keen on just letting the SORN renew forever - in case they change the rules lol.

.

 

Couldn't you do something funny like register it in Jeremy Corbyns name so he gets a barrage of letters through demanding he taxes it. 😀

[anonymous user]

Didn't someone on here cut a body up with a saw and angle grinder small enough to fit in a boot/people carrier, then dispose of the remains at their local tip?

For the fully authentic look you should wrap the pieces in old carpet or black plastic and make sure you put it in the skip for non-recyclable stuff

[dean36014]

Didn't someone on here cut their car shell up with a saw and angle grinder small enough to fit in a boot/people carrier, then dispose of the remains at their local tip?

Yep did this with the ex Beko ZX. Couldn't get anyone to collect, got let down various times, so cut it into pieces that fitted in the back of a 206 estate. I've still got the logbook though and no idea how I'm going to solve that problem.

[JayW]

I've still got the logbook though and no idea how I'm going to solve that problem.

Just send it back to DVLA with that ^ explanation, perfectly legitimate way to dispose of scrap metal.

 

Might even make one those random lists of government oddities they publish now and then...

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

I'm weighing in a Focus estate Thursday, £60 picked up from my house. Then again it's got the cat on and a battery. Scrap dealers buy cars based on the value per tonne unless it's something a bit special they know they'll make money on the parts.

 

 

U Pull It crush stuff like that automatically. 206's, Fiestas, Vauxshite etc - they put 2 out of 10 in the yard and cube the other 8. Someone there told me they crush 100 cars a day.

[sierraman]

Good job. After I'd finished with it it's got absolutely nothing worth having left on it.

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Leave it parked somewhere comical and register it in someone else's name

 

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[Noel Tidybeard]

see if fire brigade want it for practice of cutting gear

[stephen01]

I thought DVLA had got rid of the need to SORN annually, once done that's it until a change of keeper.

 

I hope so! I still have a car that missed the sorn period!

[oldcars]

Stick out out front on bin day with the carboard bucket, the glass and plastic bucket, the food bucket, the bucket bucket, the garden bucket etc etc 

[Jim Bell]

12 and 45 pls

[Mr A Lawrence]

On the sorn front, the government are looking into all sorned vehicles needing to be insured due to a court case in Poland where someone was knocked down by a tractor on the polish equivalent of sorn.

 

Don't think it'll ever happen though.

[AMC Rebel]

Didn't someone on here cut their car shell up with a saw and angle grinder small enough to fit in a boot/people carrier, then dispose of the remains at their local tip?

 I er, ahem may have done this at some point in the past.  Bloke at the tip was very angry  with me*, but couldn't actually stop me.

 

* They ran that tip on the basis of how/much/little stuff was dumped there so I was ruining his bonus/profit.

[AMC Rebel]

On the sorn front, the government are looking into all sorned vehicles needing to be insured due to a court case in Poland where someone was knocked down by a tractor on the polish equivalent of sorn.

 

Don't think it'll ever happen though.

 

<pedant> Slovenia </pedant>

 

Discussed here

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/26939-continous-insurance-for-all-motor-vehicles-including-sornd-ones/

[Eddie Honda]

On the sorn front, the government are looking into all sorned vehicles needing to be insured due to a court case in Poland where someone was knocked down by a tractor on the polish equivalent of sorn.

 

Don't think it'll ever happen though.

 

Also

 

<pedant>

• Vnuk was hit by a trailer
• It was attached to a tractor, reversing into a barn.
• The tractor was insured and wasn't on any equivalent of SORN
• The insurer of the tractor told Mr Vnuk to do one as it was private property.

</pedant>

 

The UK (along with other EU member states such as Ireland & Germany) are looking at getting the directive changed to get round the issue.

[sierraman]

This is the trouble these days. Someone gets killed by some strange accident so we have to go out changing the law. If I were to set myself on fire this evening with some matches, they'd be up in arms about banning matches so something ghastly like this never ever happens again.