Scrap my car
in Manchester

The east side of the M60

The A62 Oldham Road, the A662 to Ashton and the A57 Hyde Road run out of the city past the yards, and the M60 loops round the outside, so a collector is never far from an M11 or M40 postcode. The site prices your car against every licensed yard covering the district and shows the top figure; that yard rings to agree a day, usually within one to three days.

The districts

M4 is Ancoats and Miles Platting; M8 Cheetham Hill and Crumpsall; M9 Blackley and Harpurhey; M40 Moston, New Moston and Newton Heath; M11 Clayton, Openshaw and Beswick around the stadium; M12 Ardwick and Longsight; M18 Gorton and Abbey Hey; M19 Levenshulme and Burnage. Permit zones, resident bays and double-parked terraces are the normal conditions, and the driver works round them — say which street and whether the car rolls. Match days around the Etihad close roads; the yard plans around them.

City cars at the end

High-mileage private hire cars and old taxis, small hatchbacks that have done ten years of city driving, diesel family cars failed on emissions, and the cars that have been sitting on a street for months collecting tickets. All are priced by weight, make, age and what is still fitted — a car with its catalytic converter is worth more than one without, and the number of cats stolen in M8 and M9 means that question matters here. Non-runners are winched; vans from the Cheetham Hill and Newton Heath trade go through the same form and can be invoiced.

Paid within 24 hours, by a licensed yard

The collector is an Authorised Treatment Facility. Photo ID and proof of address for the registered keeper, bank transfer within 24 hours of collection — cash for scrap has been illegal since 2013 — and the Certificate of Destruction issued with the DVLA told. No logbook? The ID check covers it.