Scrapping A Car

[Bazile]

Can you just ask a Breaker to come and take vehicle away or should you go through some other route in order to ensure that you are no longer responsible for anthing to do with vehicle ?

[chrissa1]

You make sure they sign and date the tear off part of your Registration Document. Ideally, take a photo or scan of it before you send the documentation back to the DVLA.

[Buenchico]

As long as you go to a reputable motor breaker you'll be issued with a Certificate of Destruction. (It's a legal requirement, under the End of Life Vehicle Regulations, for a breaker to provide such a certificate).

[ToraToraTora]

They should give you the yellow part back to send off to DVLA

[MrIncredible]

make sure they pay you! I have scrapped 2 cars this year and I was paid £95 for the first one (renault megane) and £105 for the second one (ford ka)

I think there is a section in your vehicle ownership form that you send of to the dvla to say its been scrapped.

[WILLWONKER]

Yes you can, but you have to get them to fill in the transfer section on your registration certificate, part 9 and make sure you send it off

[Bazile]

-Are breakers the same as Authorised Treatment facility (ATF) ?

- When you get a Certificate of Destruction - do you still have to inform DVLA by completing the relevant section of the Registration Document to say it has been transferred to the ATF for breaking ?

[Mamyalynne]

What to do if you want to scrap your vehicle
• You should take it to an Authorised Treatment Facility (ATF) who will make sure that it is dismantled in an environmentally friendly way. The ATF should give you a Certificate of Destruction (CoD). If you do not receive the CoD immediately you must fill in section 9 (V5C3) of the V5C Registration Certificate and send to DVLA. You can get details of your nearest ATF from the Environment Agency.
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• If you have broken up the vehicle yourself, you must either tax it or tell us you are keeping it off the public road by making a SORN, until you take it to an ATF or tell us you no longer have it.
• If you have passed the vehicle on to a scrapyard or an insurer to be
scrapped, follow the procedures explained in section 9 (V5C3).

[Bazile]

Bear with me - i know i might be sounding a bit dim here .

I have got a car sitting on my drive , which is not road worthy
Due to it's condition ,the only person that is going to buy it or take it off my hands is a scrap dealer .

A scrap dealer will either buy it off me or agree to just remove it .
Is this case therefore are you saying that all i need to do is just '' follow the procedures explained in section 9 (V5C3). ''

[Mamyalynne]

In my opinion and what I always did likely before the new rules came in , I would always inform them with or without a Cod.

Have been out the trade some time now, but the main thing is always to let them know IMO, hope someone more up to date can be clearer Baz.

[Bazile]

thanks

I'm trying to clarify if i legally need to have a COD ( given the condition of the car ) , whether the scrap dealer buys it or just take it away OR is just completing the vehicle registration document legally sufficient

[Traci66]

My son in law recently broke one of his cars and sold it over the Internet as parts, the shell he sold to a scrap yard, he just wrote to the DVLA and informed them what he had done.