Scrap my car
in Leatherhead

Junction 9

Collectors coming round the M25 from either direction leave at Leatherhead, and the A24 and A243 bring them straight into the villages. That reach means more than one yard can quote here, and the site shows you the best figure. The winning yard rings to arrange a day, usually within one to three days of your accepting.

KT21 to KT24

KT22 is Leatherhead itself and Fetcham; KT21 Ashtead; KT23 Great and Little Bookham; KT24 Effingham and East and West Horsley. Almost every car is on a drive, often a long gravel one behind a gate — easy for the driver as long as he knows about it. The old town centre around Bridge Street and Church Street is tighter.

Second cars and company cars

Leatherhead scraps a lot of second cars that stopped being used and a fair number of ex-company cars that were run hard on the M25 and are now worth less than their next service. The second cars arrive as non-runners after years on a drive and are winched; the high-mileage ones usually still drive and are priced as runners. Newer cars with a single big fault — gearbox, turbo, a written-off panel — are priced for their parts value rather than just their weight, so answer the condition questions honestly. Vans from the business parks on Randalls Road go through the same form.

The yard does the paperwork

Every collector is an Authorised Treatment Facility. Photo ID and proof of address for the registered keeper, bank transfer within 24 hours of collection, and the Certificate of Destruction issued with the DVLA told. No V5C? The ID check stands in for it.