Seth
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Question for those that know. Can you declare a car scrap yourself or do you have to heave its remains off to a yard? I get the feeling there's going to be not much left of the yellow Herald in a couple of weeks time. So, I was wondering if I could cut the remains into reasonable chunks, dispose of them appropriately and then send off the V5 but there doesn't seem to be an appropriate part to fill in.  I guess the alternative is to take the remains including the bit with the "chassis no" (actually fitted to the removable bulkhead  ) to the scrap yard? |
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There is a bit on the V5 you fill in if you scrap it. Is it a new V5 or a really old one?
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Theres actually a box to tick if you break the car up yourself, as well.
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madmart
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hi seth,
if your breaking the car yourself and whats left is just scrap metal you should tick the scrapped box and send back to the dvla if your taking the remains to a breakers yard and its pretty much a complete car you must fill the motor traders section with there details and they should notify the dvla when its crushed.
HTH mart
ps the box should be near the change details section IIRC
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If the car is effectively destroyed, i.e its definately never going to see the road again then you fill out the logbook as scrap. The car does have to be pretty cabbaged though as most scrap metal yards wont accept an intact car without its logbook so the scrap man who collects it will be stuck with it. It does sound like there wont be much left of yours though!
There should be a box on the logbook you tick if you destroy the car yourself its next to the export box.
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If the car is effectively destroyed, I.e its definately never going to see the road again then you fill out the logbook as scrap. The car does have to be pretty cabbaged though as most scrap metal yards wont accept an intact car without its logbook so the scrap man who collects it will be stuck with it. It does sound like there wont be much left of yours though! There should be a box on the logbook you tick if you destroy the car yourself its next to the export box. Unfortunately there are still an awful lot of yards who don't ask to see the logbook. I have probably broken 10-15 cars and vans over the past 3 year, and not once have I been asked for a logbook. They have always asked for my name and address though. |
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On the new (2 page) V5, at first I was convinced the only legal way to scrap a car was to send it to a yard, as in the "disposal" section (page "3", about 1/3 down (guessing as I haven't got a V5 in front of me!!)) that was effectively the only appropriate option (other than export, etc). However, if you look on page "2" IIRC there is a signature block (possibly notification of sale) and right next to that is a tick box if the car has been scrapped by the owner. So tick that, send off the V5 and job done  |
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Yep, they've fully hidden it on the new ones. I'm glad you pointed it out as I spent ages looking for it. In the end I rang them up and they told me to send them a fax about a Polo I'd killed but that I was still on the register for.
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do you not need to provide a certificatte of destruction or whatever its called now? I know that was in the proposals last time.
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nope, we usually take them down to this....  and a general scrap bloke gets the shell forklifted onto the back of his transit. |
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Seth
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Thanks for the answeres people. I'll have a closer look at the V5C. So far I've stripped almost everything out of the inside of the car and got the valances and bonnet off too. RevD is going to have the front suspension and that will come with the front couple of foot of the chassis too. That will lend it fairly unlikely to drive as a whole car again  Then I might get the rest of the body off (just bulkhead and rear tub then), cut some useful solid parts out of them and cut some more of the chassis to bits to possibly make into a trailer.  |
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Follow your dreams or you might as well be a vegetable.
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Scrapping a cararthurbrown
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Simple.
Cut out and keep VIN tags.
Sell the remains to a Hiab-driving diddicoy.
Sell the V5 & tags on ebay.
Everyone's a winner*!
(*well everyone apart from the poor sod who spent 14 years restoring his 13/60 only to have it robbed and rung onto the tags you sold.....)
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) to the scrap yard?
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