Price of scrap cars, am I missing something?

Scrap prices are high so worth ringing round locally - its a heavy old thing so worth some cash.
James

Scrap is about 170-180/ton for car grade, alloy wheels are 1400+ a ton, windings are nearly a grand a ton.

Cats are absolutely mental at the minute, depending on the engine it could have over £500 of cats on it. (Edit- diesel so Proably only £100-150)

It’s quite conceivable that on a 2 ton+ car they could double their money in a few hours with a bit of processing.

That's the problem, p38 bits aren't that saleable, if it was a classic it'd fly out!

As is a fair bit of the rest of the car.
Told you I didn't like it much didn't I?

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Not too disimmilar situation with Mrs H's old Zafira A. One of the online places gave us £350 scrap last month, which we were very surprised by, but happy with!  It had 180K on the clock, no proper history (I did most all the work myself), it was (over) due a cam belt and was also going to need a lot of welding for the next MOT. One of the main chassis rails was badly delaminating (damaged underseal had retained moisture...) and the rear of both sills was showing signs of delaminating too, so would have needed doing the following year, as well as a sill seam in a door shut blowing as well. It was all doable, but really all not worth the effort or money on this example, especially as similar spec ones on ebay with that sort of mileage weren't going for that much more than the scrap value.  Also, I really didn't feel comfortable putting it up as a private sale due to all the known faults, so scrapping was a much more hassle-free option.

Got a price online of 240 for my lupo last week.

Sold my sister's 2002 Hyundai Coupe last week. As a scruffy car with a short MOT and needing welding for another, various bad paint repairs showing, multiple exhaust repairs, tired suspension, split radiator and driven home like that so it ran rough, needing a timing belt selling it got £350 from Redcorn.com. That's one 30 second internet session, two phone calls(one of which was from the driver) and it's gone. No haggling, arguing about condition or any other grief. It wouldn't have made anywhere near £350 if sold privately, and that always means dealing with people who should have been put down at birth

I got £275 for the really nice one owner 65K Miles Corsa that was sat on my drive for a year from the scrap guys.

I advertised it on her for £100 and got knocked on the price as there was a dent on the cill....

Weigh it in.

P.