Enter the registration and the postcode where the car is parked. The vehicle details are looked up for you.
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Your details go straight to a licensed buyer who covers your postcode. From there, the car goes full circle.
Enter the registration and the postcode where the car is parked. The details go to a licensed buyer who covers that area, and they come back with an offer.
Agree the offer and pick a day. The car is collected free of charge from a drive, a street, a car park or a garage, wherever it happens to be.
The car goes to an Authorised Treatment Facility, where fluids, the battery and hazardous parts are removed safely and the paperwork is completed.
Reusable parts are recovered, and the shell is shredded so the steel, aluminium and other materials can be made into something new.
Questions
Straight answers to what people ask before scrapping a car.
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No. Collection is free wherever the car is in the UK, there are no admin or hidden fees, and turning down an offer costs nothing.
Usually within about an hour of your details reaching the buyer. If you haven't heard by then, call us and we'll follow it up.
It makes things simpler, but a car can often still be scrapped without it. Our guide to scrapping without a V5C explains what to do.
Yes: a home, a workplace, a garage, a car park or the roadside. Use the postcode where the car is, not your home address.