Guides & Help
Straightforward advice on scrapping your car in the UK — written by a real licensed scrapyard, not a content farm.
How to scrap your car: a step-by-step guide
A walkthrough of scrapping your car legally in the UK, from getting a quote to telling DVLA and receiving your Certificate of Destruction.
Read guide →What is a Certificate of Destruction?
A Certificate of Destruction proves a vehicle was destroyed at an authorised treatment facility. What it is, why you want one, and how to check a yard can issue it.
Read guide →Can I scrap my car without a V5?
Lost your V5C logbook? What proof a licensed ATF will ask for instead, and how to replace the V5C if you would rather have it first.
Read guide →Most valuable car parts to sell before scrapping
Which parts are worth selling before you scrap, which to leave on, and how leaving them on is already priced into a weight-based quote.
Read guide →Checklist: what to do before scrapping your car
A practical pre-scrap checklist for UK owners: paperwork, personal items, private plates, insurance, finance and what to do after collection.
Read guide →Scrap car prices Liverpool: what is your car worth?
What a scrap car is worth in Liverpool by size and weight, worked out with our instant-quote formula, with the rate and the date it was last updated.
Read guide →Catalytic converter value: how much is yours worth?
What decides a catalytic converter's value, why it is inside a scrap car's price, and what to check before selling one separately.
Read guide →How to check a scrapyard is legal
In England and Wales a car must be scrapped at an authorised treatment facility, and a scrapyard may not pay cash. Five checks before you hand over your car.
Read guide →Can you scrap an insurance write-off?
What Category A, B, S and N mean, which must be crushed, which can go back on the road, and how to scrap a written-off car at an ATF.
Read guide →Scrapping a car after someone has died
What to tell DVLA, what a scrapyard will ask for, and what to sort out first when the car belonged to someone who has died.
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