Scrap my car in Greater Manchester

Short runs along the M60 and M62

The M60 loops the city and the M62 runs along the top of it, with the A62 and the A627(M) joining Oldham and Rochdale to both. A collector based on this side of the conurbation is never far from a job, and short runs are what keep prices competitive. Coverage follows which yards are on the network at the time: enter your postcode and the site tells you straight away whether a collector covers it, before you accept.

The towns

Oldham with Chadderton, Royton, Shaw and Saddleworth; Rochdale with Milnrow, Littleborough and Heywood; Middleton and Bury with Radcliffe, Whitefield and Ramsbottom; Ashton-under-Lyne, Stalybridge, Hyde, Dukinfield, Droylsden and Denton across Tameside; and the north and east of Manchester itself from Cheetham Hill round to Gorton and Levenshulme. Each town page below says which districts it covers and what to tell the driver about the street.

Terraces, back streets and hills

Most of this side of Greater Manchester is terraces with kerbside parking, and the collectors are used to it: a back street a long truck will not turn in, a permit zone in the city, a steep street in Saddleworth or above Stalybridge. Say where the car is and whether it rolls, and the yard sends a truck that fits. Non-runners are winched; MOT failures, damaged cars and vans are priced the same way as a clean car, by weight, make, age and what is still fitted. Catalytic converter theft is common across the conurbation — a car with its cat still on is worth more, so say either way.

Paid within 24 hours, by a licensed yard

Every collector on the network is an Authorised Treatment Facility. The driver checks photo ID and proof of address for the registered keeper, the yard pays by bank transfer within 24 hours of collection — cash for scrap has been illegal since 2013 — and issues the Certificate of Destruction with the DVLA told you are no longer the keeper. No V5C? The ID check covers it.