Making the most of scrap cars

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There's more money to be made of scrap cars than just collecting them and taking them to an authorised treatment facility  for recycling. OK! So you remove the battery the catalytic converter fuel, and if you're lucky alloy wheels. We've all had cars, which have had faults like auto gearbox failure, for example, even for us to repair the gearbox is simply not worth getting evolved in, even if the car is totally immaculate and low mileage been garaged from new and one owner. It's gutting, and in some ways seems criminal to have it crushed.

The next-best plan is to make as much money out of  a scrap car as you possibly can, moreover, if you managed to have one up to around ten years old, these are great as there will still be a decent market for the spare parts as most cars of this age are worth fixing and retain excellent value. The first and probably the most important point is the colour, followed by condition.

A favourable body colour, in first class and scratch-free condition will enable you to sell the panels, having popular colour means excellent to high probability of selling the body work. Moreover, still a dent-free mint body work in not so common finish is, even so, great. See, just say you go to the supermarket, and some fool reverses into your car, then drives off leaving you to pick up the bill; I bet it's happened to someone you know or even you. If you need to replace headlight bonnet and wing, body repair shop will quote for new parts plus painting them, and labour, four five hundred pounds would be expected and quite reasonable.

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Finding your potential customers.

ebay listing example

Go to the internet on to google.co.uk and search for on line auction web-sites, like E Bay or E bid similar if you have not already got an account go ahead and set one up; it will take around thirty minutes as you will need to verify it to gain full access.

Next is Pay-pal set up an account with them; this is a bit more long-winded and takes longer but a must.

 

Then just go ahead and list the scrap car you picked up, from experience list three or four parts from the vehicle with a starting bid of 99p, ( 99p listings are free so it won't cost you a penny), over a few days to spread the coverage, for 10 days. An example advert would be "Ford escort 2003 1.6 ghia rear light breaking for spares" your text indicates you are dismantling the whole scrap your car for cash you picked up. Furthermore, add a telephone number as some people don't like to email and prefer to contact by phone. Subsequently, complete the item description with as much information as possible, not forgetting to add the paint code (very important), then you're ready simply wait for the emails and calls to start coming in.

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Sending your items, this is quite simple you will need to buy wrapping tape, bubble wrap, start to keep cardboard boxes, you will soon acquire a skill of wrapping items. Now postage, postage cost this can be a bit of a minefield; however, E bay has a great deal with pay-pal. You can arrange postage with Pay-pal by accessing your Pay-pal account, there are discount rates available, especially with large items, to simplify; it is costing at the moment around £12.00 for any item up to 30kg (read full details size limit applies). And that's it for more information on car dismantling services go to their website, for any other details on vehicle recycling services.