Scrap car collection, nationwide
Wherever the car is parked, your request goes to the licensed buyer who covers that postcode. You get an offer, choose a day, and the car is taken to an Authorised Treatment Facility.
Collection request · no obligation
Start with the registration and the postcode where the car is parked.
Where your request goes
Prefer to talk? Call 0330 010 0002.
The route
Four stations, the same wherever you live. The postcode decides who comes; you decide whether and when.
Give us the registration plus the postcode of the street, drive or yard where the car sits. That postcode picks the buyer.
The licensed buyer responsible for that patch reads the details and replies with a figure for the car.
Happy with the figure? Pick a day and a time window for the truck. Turn it down and that is the end of it, with nothing to pay.
Payment arrives by bank transfer, the car heads to an Authorised Treatment Facility, and its destruction is logged with the DVLA.
Before collection day
Handover tends to take minutes: a quick check, the car goes on the truck, a signature. Delays nearly always come from small things, like a spare key nobody can find or a personalised registration nobody moved.
Run through the list a day or two before. If something on it is a problem, say so when you accept the offer and the buyer will plan around it. Our booking guide covers the details.
Have this ready
Missing one of these? Say so early. It changes the plan, not the collection.
Cars we collect
Seven situations we see most. Open the one that matches yours.
Repairs cost more than the car is worth to you.
Every category, bought back or not.
Bent, burnt or flooded, collected as it stands.
Engine, gearbox, clutch or electrics gone.
Will not start, steer or roll? Still collected.
Worth more as parts than as a car.
Sitting unused, unloved or simply surplus.
Coverage
Requests are accepted nationwide and routed by postcode. These are the areas our coverage pages describe in detail.
Guides
Clear answers on the paperwork and the practical side of scrapping a car.
Your registration and postcode go to the licensed buyer who covers that postcode. They make the offer and arrange the collection with you directly.
No. The offer you are given already accounts for collecting the car, and nothing is added on the day.
Into your bank account. Cash for scrap has been banned in England and Wales since the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013, so expect a transfer, never notes.
No. An offer is just that. You can think about it, ask questions or say no, and nothing is owed.
The V5C is the main one. Lost it? Mention that when you send the request; scrapping usually still goes ahead, and the DVLA is then told by letter.
It goes to an Authorised Treatment Facility, where it is depolluted, useful parts are recovered and the rest is recycled. The DVLA is told it has been destroyed.
Two details, the reg and the postcode, put your car in front of the licensed buyer for your area. Their figure, your decision.