As anyone who started driving at an early age will know, being a young motorist isn’t easy. At least, in the sense that you’re more or less guaranteed to be fleeced by your insurance provider – often paying more per year than your car is actually worth.
Jokes aside, there’s a reason why young people are […]
The way we see it, one major headache no motorist should have to deal with is a complex and costly car scrapping saga. Accepting your car has reached the end of its usable life is painful enough, without then having to go through the process of paying a small fortune for someone to take it […]
At Take My Scrap Car, one of the important aspects of our car recycling and scrapping process is first going through the vehicles we collect with a fine-tooth comb. In doing so, we regularly come across all manner of weird and wonderful bits and pieces left behind by our customers.
After conducting a little research online […]
At Take My Scrap Car, we’re often asked if it’s possible to make payment for the cars we collect in cash. Purely for convenience purposes, a lot of customers understandably would prefer cash in hand for their scrap cars.
However, we exclusively pay for the vehicles we collect by transferring the funds into their accounts. Cash […]
Anyone looking to scrap an end-of-life vehicle will understandably want to get the best possible price for it. Quotations for scrap vehicles are based on scrap material values at the time, which fluctuate in accordance with a variety of factors.
But to what extent (if any) does the make and model of a vehicle affect its […]
Vehicle scrapping and recycling has traditionally been a complex and costly business. The larger and more non-standard the vehicle in question, the greater the complexities involved in getting rid of it.
End-of-life commercial vehicles in particular have always proved problematic for their respective owners. You want to do the right thing, but you’d also prefer a […]
At Take My Scrap Car, we’re often approached by customers looking to dispose of vehicles with a failed MOT. The reason for the MOT failure is inconsequential, as the aim at this point is to scrap and recycle the car in question.
But does this mean that you can legally drive a car with a failed […]
At the risk of jumping straight to the conclusion, the answer to the above question is…maybe.
Buying and selling-on salvage cars is one of the oldest money-making games in the book. You buy a car that’s not in the best possible state of repair, you carry out the necessary fixes yourself and you sell it on […]
In the vast majority of instances, a SORN declaration is more or less the equivalent of a death certificate for a vehicle. Once a vehicle has been declared SORN, it is almost always taken out of service for good.
Just in case you wondered, SORN stands for Statutory Off Road Notification – the meaning of which […]
At Take My Scrap Car, we work hard to be as flexible as possible for the benefit of our customers. This extends to both the types of vehicles we are willing to accept and where we can collect them from.
But when we say we’ll take your scrap car from any location, what does this mean? […]
