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Just wondering if anybody has any idea what the current scrap price is per ton on cars. Somebody is offering me a car at scrapprice, and claims scrap is £180 per a ton, i just want to confirm this.
5alldaway
14-04-2010, 10:21
you feel like buying the wiesel do you? :laugh: :agree:
Just wondering if anybody has any idea what the current scrap price is per ton on cars. Somebody is offering me a car at scrapprice, and claims scrap is £180 per a ton, i just want to confirm this.
yeah thats about right scrap price down here is 160 per tone as my m8 just scraped a car few days ago
cool aight then..
nah alex, its a 306 saloon 1.9 td, its been smashed up the rear end.. has the old style 1.9 engine with the bosch fuel pump etc though.
5alldaway
14-04-2010, 10:37
you should put one of your usual cheeky low offers for the car, you just might get it ;)
you cheeky sod, to be honest he owes me some favors, so i told him to get me a scrap price and ill chuck him a beer token on top.
Then im just going to drop the engine out and weigh it in myself, problem i have is somewhere to put it up until the weekend when i get chance to drop the lump.
we're getting ripped down here then!! £130 on the ton!
Dj If i drop my scrap off to you will you go weigh it in for me and take a cut?
Im too embarrassed to go do it for some reason.
THE MASTER
14-04-2010, 18:07
im getting £140 a tone . . ive done three cars in a week :)
THE MASTER
14-04-2010, 18:09
i hope they got big pockets when the white van goes
:laugh:
i hope they got big pockets when the white van goes
:laugh:
Colin roughly, what does a tonne of scrap look like?
Ie ive got a load of brake discs etc calipers I couldnt carry it all in one go but im sure thats far from a tonne.
THE MASTER
14-04-2010, 18:32
doing scrap is easy all you do is drive on a wheigh bridge they take a note of your full loaded wheight then you go and off load then get back on the scales . they pay you the difference ;) simmple :laugh:
THE MASTER
14-04-2010, 18:36
im turning into a pickey :ashamed:
im turning into a pickey :ashamed:
Oh that is pretty Easy.
If i drive on in a 5 though wont they just swing a big crane over me and crush me like in superman.
Are we saying here that it's much more worthwhile scrapping a car at a scrap metal place than at a scrap car yard? Looms' car yard local to me pay say £50 for example for a crap old saloon car, is it right then that Alton metals will give me over £150 for driving it into their place instead?
But a car's weight is made up of much more than just metal and it would need dissecting, do these places accept them as is based on their total weighbridge weight??
If that's the case it's almost worth buying a loader with a winch then looking locally for real old nails, like heavy Jags etc, paying £100 for them and taking them straight to the local metal merchants and making a few quid...
Where's the catch?
Are we saying here that it's much more worthwhile scrapping a car at a scrap metal place than at a scrap car yard? Looms' car yard local to me pay say £50 for example for a crap old saloon car, is it right then that Alton metals will give me over £150 for driving it into their place instead?
But a car's weight is made up of much more than just metal and it would need dissecting, do these places accept them as is based on their total weighbridge weight??
If that's the case it's almost worth buying a loader with a winch then looking locally for real old nails, like heavy Jags etc, paying £100 for them and taking them straight to the local metal merchants and making a few quid...
Where's the catch?
yep!!
alway's go to a metal place! that's where the scrapyard take it after they've made a shed load in parts.
the amount of people with recovery trucks/trailers to do this down here is unreal!
we fill the shell up with even more scrap too! & fill the petty tank up with water lol every little helps ;)
£165 per ton here, and yea kenobi, speak to you tomorrow about it,,. takes a lot of scrap to make up a worth while weight though.
£165 per ton here, and yea kenobi, speak to you tomorrow about it,,. takes a lot of scrap to make up a worth while weight though.
Yeah but old heavy motors must weigh a ton.
Thanks Nayls, that's really interesting. What do the metal places do regarding the log book, or is it you that sends it away to the DVLA as scrapped? When buying the car from someone, is there a way of doing it easily with the V5 so you don't have to send it away to get it into your name before then taking it to the scrappy?
I just spoke to a mate of mine and he's answered all of the questions I'd got. Looks like it's a bit of graft but there's a few beer tokens to be made in this way. :agree:
The weigh in yards round here are funny about taking cars without the logbook for obvious reasons, so if a legitimate sale goes through where the previous owner sends logbook off you could have a scrap car sat about for a few weeks!
I drove a sierra down to my local yard with no logbook, after a 'rant' off the owner they took it at what seemed like a lower price than usual. I got it for free so any money was a bonus in my eyes:cool:
Dont know what derby is like for cars, but theres nowt around here unless your offered something. The pikeys got all the old scrappers last time the scrap price was high. I must have had one visitor per week asking if my van was scrap when it was sat looking highly polished/loved on the drive in 2008 when prices were through the roof!
Hi Jon. Aye, noted. :agree:
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