Scrap my car: a local collection
If your car has reached the end of the road, you don't need a national website and a stranger in a tow truck. Empire is a Camborne firm with its own flatbed recovery truck. We come to you, load the car, and take it away.
It doesn't need to run, have an MOT or be in one piece. We collect from driveways, gardens, garages, yards, car parks and roadsides.
Cars and vans we collect
- MOT failures that would cost more to fix than they are worth
- Non-runners: dead engines, seized brakes, flat tyres
- Accident-damaged and written-off cars
- Cars left behind after a death, a house move or a tenancy
- Old project cars that never got finished
- Small vans as well as cars
How scrapping a car works
A scrapped car has to go to an Authorised Treatment Facility (ATF), which issues the Certificate of Destruction. Before collection:
- Have the V5C logbook ready
- Take out personal belongings, dash cams and parking permits
- Keep a private number plate by transferring it with the DVLA first
- Cancel the insurance and tax once the car has gone
Then tell the DVLA the car has been scrapped. The GOV.UK guide to scrapping a vehicle walks you through it.
What does scrap car collection cost?
Every scrap car is priced on its own. A complete, heavy car close to Camborne is a very different job from a stripped shell at the end of a farm track. What counts:
- The make, model and weight of the car
- Whether it is complete (engine, wheels, catalytic converter)
- How far away it is
- Access: can the truck get alongside it?
Send the details and a photo, and we will tell you up front whether the collection is paid, free or charged. By law, scrap buyers pay by bank transfer, not cash.
One booking for the car and the clear-out
Scrap cars often turn up in the middle of a bigger job: a probate clearance, an end-of-tenancy clear-out or a garden that has been left to grow over a car. We clear the property with the tipper and take the car with the recovery truck, so you deal with one firm.
See house clearance, scrap metal collection and vehicle recovery.
Sean Taylor
Jayne Spittle
