Current Scrap Prices?

[Toms306]

I know iron is worth less than paper now, but what about the stuff that used to be valuable? Motors, batteries etc?

Basically I've got a couple of knackered batteries, 2 starters and an alternator. Are batteries and motors worth enough for me to drive to the scrap yard or should I just dump them at the dump about a mile away?

[welshpug]

prices vary so much you need to look about locally day to day.

I'd always get some cash if at all possible, the local tip will make money on the stuff you give away

[Toms306]

They can't vary 'that' much though? Batteries used to be around £6 each last time, are they nearer a fiver or nearer a quid is what I'm asking I guess.

I'm not out to spite the dump lol, if they make money on the rubbish I'll have to pay less council tax . Plus it takes 10 minutes and 40p of fuel to go the dump and back. Takes over an hour and £1.50+ to drive to the scrap yard and back so needs to be worthwhile going lol.

[bashbarnard]

£20 per tonne round here atm if you just weigh in. Its worth bugger all. We bought an entire corsa at work the other day for £60 cause it was going to scrap.

[Piggy]

Worth sod all. Seriously.

[vincent1]

ive just scrapped a 02 saxo drove it too the yard got £20.00 (steel wheels) it should of been less too but they had no change lol

[Toms306]

Any figures to go with 'sod all'?

I know whole cars are only worth £20 but they go as mixed and need to be depoll'd etc. Thought batteries and copper may have held more value? Or are the Chinese making them new for 2 pence each as well?

[Dum-Dum]

Nah Tom, the valuable stuff like wire, motors, batteries etc still has some value.
It's probably half to a third of what it was at peak a few years ago but bear in mind that Bash is saying iron is £20/tonne and at peak I was getting £200/tonne. so that's fallen off far further.

[vincent1]

when i spoke to the scrap yard owner regarding low scrap prices he said they cant see the prices going up untill next summer at the earliest that why a lot around my area have started doing partworn tyres etc to make more money and most are stock pilling crushed scrap cars untill next year.

[Toms306]

Are cats still worth the same as they were before? Just thinking about the genuine cat on the Rover?

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Nah Tom, the valuable stuff like wire, motors, batteries etc still has some value.
It's probably half to a third of what it was at peak a few years ago but bear in mind that Bash is saying iron is £20/tonne and at peak I was getting £200/tonne. so that's fallen off far further.

Yeah I use the same yard as Bash (not much choice round here! ), was £180 per tonne for iron back in 2012 when I stripped the Golf!!

If we assume the valuable stuff has dropped to a third, that's £2 per battery and about a quid for all 3 motors. A fiver definitely isn't worth going over the yard tbh.

[r3k1355]

No nothing is, it's all gone downhill.
For example Copper is less than half what it was about 5 years ago.

Realistically it's not really going to pick up much either, the surge in prices was pretty much all driven by China.
Their economy is slowing down now, it needed to otherwise it'd collapse - so it's not going to surge back up to previous levels.

[Toms306]

Bloody foreigners...

[cully]

i can get £5 a battery here still as of last week

[lolsteve]

Been wondering what to do with my old alternator. Probably just stick it on ebay

[Toms306]

Alternators don't sell, can't even shift a refurbed Rover one. The HDi one is probably alright but I never seem to be able to sell them, been on ebay twice and gumtree as well, always end up scrapping them as motors for a few pence but usually have other motors as well to make it worthwhile.

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i can get £5 a battery here still as of last week

You seem to get better deals than I ever do though.

[welshpug]

you won't get any discount on your council tax you'll probably find its not run by the council anyway, even if their trucks all go there.

[Toms306]

I meant everyone would have to pay less if more was dumped, I'm not that much of a selfish, inconsiderate arse.

This one is council owned though tbf. The one near my old house wasn't, had to pay to dump stuff depending on car size...was cheaper to drive into town and use the council dump. Cheeky bastards even charged you to dump metal there back when scrap was worth something!

[r3k1355]

All our local dumps are run for the council by a private firm, who then contract that out to a third party.

Any metal you take there just gets flogged and lines the companies pockets.

[Toms306]

Oh thats confusing then. This one is attached to a landfill site with council signs everywhere.

But its hardly worth anything in scrap anyway, so not lining anyones pockets.

[ConorTRG]

Cats still make good money depending on there code etc. People the buy cats only usually give a good price.

[DemonDriverDan]

Is that for a full car? I had to give away a GTi6 I broke for parts, no one was interested in paying anything!

[Niall]

I get about £420 a tonne for batteries where i am but that was a long time ago, probably about 5 months ago now. I hoard batteries and weigh them in in big amounts. Need to get rid of my growing pile soon actually

[Dum-Dum]

Niall even in the last 5 months the price of iron has halved and other stuff is taken a nose dive.
There won't be any point weighing anything in soon if the prices drop much further.

[mr_fish]

Citroen C5 Estate - matey offered £20.

Would of cost me to get it there, so now its just a skip until its full and until it evidently has to go.

[Toms306]

Citroen C5 Estate - matey offered £20.

Would of cost me to get it there, so now its just a skip until its full and until it evidently has to go.

Is there some legal reason for at least one yard to take scrap cars even if it's free? I tried 3 yards when getting rid of the HDi shell which was mostly complete tbh, I didn't remove much heavy stuff. Two wanted to charge me £50 to collect it, the 3rd collected free of charge. It's always been free collection down here due to the distance from the yard, but I can't understand why they'd take a worthless shell now unless they HAVE to? I just thought maybe there's a legal obligation to depollute and issue destruction certificates for bigger yards?

We're thinking about breaking the Rover as the only offers have been less than offers for the wheels alone so far, but I don't want to partially strip it and then find we'll get charged for collection of the rest.

[r3k1355]

Niall even in the last 5 months the price of iron has halved and other stuff is taken a nose dive.
There won't be any point weighing anything in soon if the prices drop much further.

Back to those rare old days about a decade ago, when you had to pay a scrap yard to take a car away, so people would sell a car for 10 quid just to get shut of it.

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Citroen C5 Estate - matey offered £20.

Would of cost me to get it there, so now its just a skip until its full and until it evidently has to go

Is there some legal reason for at least one yard to take scrap cars even if it's free?  I tried 3 yards when getting rid of the HDi shell which was mostly complete tbh, I didn't remove much heavy stuff.  Two wanted to charge me £50 to collect it, the 3rd collected free of charge.  It's always been free collection down here due to the distance from the yard, but I can't understand why they'd take a worthless shell now unless they HAVE to?  I just thought maybe there's a legal obligation to depollute and issue destruction certificates for bigger yards?

We're thinking about breaking the Rover as the only offers have been less than offers for the wheels alone so far, but I don't want to partially strip it and then find we'll get charged for collection of the rest.

The only thing I can think of is maybe the yard has to process a certain number of depollute certificates a year to keep the government happy?
So maybe they're willing to collect for free just to issue a certificate??

I have no idea though??

[Dum-Dum]

It's just going to end up in more abandoned cars for the council to remove and more allegedly stolen ones found burnt out not far from the owners house.

[Toms306]

Well, batteries are still worth scrapping. Motors not really.

[Mattcheese31]

11 quid for a battery eh? off i go lol

[Dum-Dum]

Nah at 28kg that'll be 2-3 batteries for £11.

IMO £400/tonne for lead batteries isn't bad at all as at peak it definitely wasn't £1k/tonne and possible wasn't even as high as £800/tonne so it hasn't even halved in price whereas I'm sure I was seeing £800/tonne or more for motors at one point.