Scrap my car in Surrey

Reached from three motorways

The M25 runs across the top of the county, the A3 and the M3 cut through it, so a Surrey car can be quoted by yards from the London side, the Hampshire side and the Sussex side. The site shows the best price a licensed collector will pay for your district and that yard collects, usually within one to three days of your accepting. 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 anything.

The towns

Guildford, Godalming and Farnham on the west side with the Surrey Hills villages behind them; Woking, Camberley and the Elmbridge towns — Walton, Weybridge, Esher and Cobham — between the A3 and the M3; Staines, Ashford and Egham against Heathrow; Epsom, Leatherhead and Dorking down the A24; Redhill, Reigate, Horley and Caterham on the east side by the M25. Each town page below says which postcode districts it covers and what to tell the driver about where the car is.

Newer cars, bigger faults

Surrey scraps fewer worn-out bangers than most counties and more cars with one expensive problem: a five-year-old saloon with a failed gearbox, an SUV written off in a car park, a convertible that has sat under a cover for years. Those are priced on what they are — repair value, parts, the catalytic converter, the alloys — not only on weight, and the price page shows the difference. Damaged cars, MOT failures, non-runners and vans are all priced the same way, by weight, make, age and what is still fitted, with the winch included.

The rules, wherever the yard is

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 in England since 2013 — and issues the Certificate of Destruction so the DVLA knows the car is gone. Lost the V5C? The ID check covers it.