Scrap my car
in Staines-upon-Thames

Heathrow’s back yard

Junction 13 of the M25, the A30 and the M3 at Sunbury put Staines within easy reach of yards on the Middlesex, Berkshire and Surrey sides, which keeps prices competitive. The site shows the best figure for your TW district; the collector rings to agree a day, usually within one to three days.

TW15 to TW20

TW18 is Staines itself and Laleham; TW19 Stanwell and Stanwell Moor, under the flight path; TW15 Ashford; TW16 Sunbury; TW17 Shepperton; TW20 Egham, Englefield Green and the Runnymede side. Terraces and semis with drives for the most part, flats around the station and Two Rivers, and the riverside roads at Laleham and Shepperton that flood when the Thames is up — if the car is somewhere a recovery truck cannot get close, say so when you book.

Private hire cars at the end

The airport trade turns over cars fast: hybrids and diesel saloons with huge mileages, bought for the licence and run until the engine or the hybrid battery gives up. They are a normal job here. A high-mileage car that still runs is priced as a runner; one with a dead hybrid battery is a non-runner and the yard handles the battery safely as part of the depollution. Alongside them come the usual MOT failures, damaged cars and the vans from the Ashford and Stanwell cargo estates.

Paid within 24 hours

The collector is an Authorised Treatment Facility. Photo ID and proof of address for the registered keeper, bank transfer within 24 hours of collection — never cash, by law — and the Certificate of Destruction issued by the yard with the DVLA told. A private hire plate comes off before collection; a missing V5C does not stop the sale.