Disposing of a bare shell. Car Takeback, or?

[Guest bangerfan101]

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?

If you can be arsed to do that, why not just weigh it in and make 40 quid for your efforts?

 

I let some Land pirates remove a wrecked almera shell from my garden when the landlord was giving me arse ache about it. No wheels on it full of rubbish. They were on it like a tramp on chips

[omegod]

I've had to have one picked up today, rolling on alloys admittedly, managed to squeeze £20 out of the yard picking it up so that's tonight's takeaway sorted

[sierraman]

Most scrap dealers want the cat and the battery on it at the very least if they aren't to charge you to fetch it. Not sure they'd be happy taking the remnants of a shell with no proof with it, you've to remember scrapyards constantly have to contend with the police checking up on them, anything that it might be hard to determine whence it came is trouble.

 

I had the Focus picked up yesterday for £60. Had a lot of stuff missing but had the engine and box in with the cat and a fucked battery. Old crap like that it's just weighed in.

[Lankytim]

There's absolutely no problem weighing in a car with no paperwork. 

[omegod]

I couldn't find the V5 and they took it anyway, reputable yard too

[sierraman]

It's one thing having no V5 but another where it's got no ID.

[Lankytim]

Only certain metal yards can accept cars, they need all the depollution shizz, which mine hasn't. When I weigh in a car, if it's incomplete they just class it as 500kgs of scrap metal rather than a car. Tbh they class complete cars as whatever they weigh in scrap, as long as they "look" scrap, i.e trailered in with no wheels or windows and full of scrap metal.They don't want paperwork signed over to them as they'll get SORN fines and stuff.

 

I guess it's technically against the rules, but when does a "motor car" stop being a car and become a weight of scrap? when it can no longer be driven? When it has no wheels? No engine?

[sierraman]

 

 

I guess it's technically against the rules, but when does a "motor car" stop being a car and become a weight of scrap? when it can no longer be driven? When it has no wheels? No engine?

When I start 'tinkering' with it. I see what you say but if the cops turn up at a car yard and there's no proof of its purchase as a motor car as opposed to scrap metal there'd be trouble. Like you say it's a grey area, when does it become a pile of rusty metal? As much as I know if the Police arrived at a scrapyard and there were cars in there in whatever state of disrepair they couldnt prove the origin of they'd be in the dock.

[AnthonyG]

If it hasn't got an identity (not sure if the vin plates the thing carved out of the door area) CarTakeBack won't want to know. You want a metal yard, look in local paper.

[Guest bangerfan101]

The thing with scrap is. It's still a cash trade regardless of what you may think. Get a metal card (pre paid credit card) and it's in your pocket the same day. The whole idea behind the no cash for scrap Is just the paper trail so hmrc can get their cut.

 

I've weighed cars in that were mine. No logbook. No problem. Tell them at the yard and it will go straight thru the frag.