Reasons to scrap your car in London
There's a multitude of reasons you may want to scrap your old car in London. Perhaps most frequently, the car has failed its MOT and is too expensive to repair. Sometimes though, the car has been in an accident which has caused catastrophic damage. Less commonly, a car can develop a fault whilst the owner is already considering the purchase of a new vehicle. Because, just diagnosing a fault in a car can be expensive, you may consider simply scrapping the car instead.
The car scrappage scheme offers an extra incentive to scrap a car to a small minority of those in London. You may be eligible for a discount of the OTR price of a new car when you scrap your old one, as long as your old car meets the strict criteria set out by the government.
The fact that any car must be taxed, unless it is declared off the road, probably provides the most pressing need people have to scrap their cars. Even if the car no longer functions it must still be taxed. It's best to scrap the car before its tax disk expires in order to avoid paying out again for road tax. It's actually possible to claim back the road tax for any time left on a tax disk when you scrap a car.
It's also good for the environment to scrap old cars. Newer cars are far more fuel efficient than older ones, meaning that they produce much smaller amounts of greenhouse gases. When someone scraps an older car in favour of a newer one they can greatly reduce their carbon footprint. At Scrap Car London we always recycle or reuse and much of a scrap car as we possibly can, in order to maximise the benefit to the environment.