Removing a scrap vehicle from your property can be challenging and may require the help of an auto salvage yard. Local salvage yards may take your scrap car, and some will even pay you for it, but getting the vehicle to the yard may mean calling a towing company to move it.
Salvage Yards
In many towns, there is a scrap yard that specializes in cars, trucks, and other automobiles and offers parts for sale at a discounted price. These salvage yards are always looking for scrap cars to add to the inventory of parts they have available, so if you have a scrap car, they will often take it off your hands.
Some salvage yards operate a towing service and can come and get the car for you, while others do not have a tow truck, so you will have to have a towing company transport the vehicle to the yard at your cost. If you are going to pay for a tow service, you need to try and get the salvage yard to buy the car from you for at least the cost of the tow to break even.
Once the car is in the salvage yard, the operator will remove all the working parts from the vehicle and sell them as used parts to people who need them. The car's body will be crushed and sold as scrap metal, so the salvage yard stands to make a good profit on the vehicle you are providing.
Vehicle Removal
Salvage yards that have tow trucks will often remove a car or truck from your property for you. In addition, large yards that do a large amount of business may be looking for newer cars that are damaged or wrecked, and they often are willing to pay something for the vehicles.
Because they need the parts to maintain their sales, paying two or three hundred dollars for a car is worth the investment to these yards. In most cases, the salvage yard will come and look at the vehicle you have to be removed and offer you a price based on the parts they see on it and the car's condition.
They may ask why you are junking it, or they may not care, but most buyers will want to know if it runs and what problems the car has before offfering you a price for it. A vehicle that has a bent frame from an accident, for instance, may have a good motor and transmission in it, so the salvage yard will pay more for it because they can make more profit on it.
Finding the right salvage yard to take the car and pay you for it is great, but you may have to call a few yards to find one that will give you a good deal.
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