Car scrappage scheme

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Im after some info here, who here has done this, and what car did you own and what car did you get?

What is the process?

Thanks
 
Someone at work here did it.
She traded a 12yo Citroen AX for a poverty spec twingo.
Suits her down to the ground. She ended up handing over £5k. (cue the people saying she should have got something else but she's happy so that's ok). Very nice car actually.

As long as the car has tax and MOT and you have owned it for 12 months that's all there is to it as far as I know.
There's also only a finite amount of government cash for this and once it's used up the offer ends.

It's worth looking round for better 2nd hand offers though. I think it depends a lot on the kind of car you're looking at and the price to see if it's worth going new/scrap or looking at 2nd hand.
 
You'll probably not get much real world experience from people on this forum as most of us have more sense than to use the scrappage scheme.
 
My girlfriend has traded in her fiesta 1.25 for a 1.2 Fiat 500 Lounge with several options.

Its on order at the moment for delivery in September so she still has her Fiesta at the moment.

Personally, would I have done it? No.

Thats women for you, everyone gave her all the arguments against it, but she still went ahead and wanted a new car.

So I went around all the dealers with her and we drove plenty of cars, narrowed it down to two and this is what she went with.

Could have done worse I think, Fiat dealers dont seem to have been discounting the 500 at all, so I cant see anyone having got a better deal on one before the scheme came in.
 
I work at a suzuki dealership and what i have noticed is that people bring in a perfectly good car to be scrapped which is actually a lot better than the car they go away with all because they go for the cheapest car possible.

I could understand if they were some kind of nail like a N reg corsa for example but the majority have been quite respectable cars.
 
I work at a suzuki dealership and what i have noticed is that people bring in a perfectly good car to be scrapped which is actually a lot better than the car they go away with all because they go for the cheapest car possible.

I could understand if they were some kind of nail like a N reg corsa for example but the majority have been quite respectable cars.
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yeah, it's almost criminal.

Still, at least a lot of the good older cars are getting dismantled for parts rather than crushed so people can keep other better old cars on the road longer (which is more environmentally efficient than building a new car).
 
My Mum just did it. She traded in a 20 year old Golf with a few issues that would probably cost more to fix than its value for a new Mini. The Mini was already in the dealership so it took a week to sort out and she drove it away on Saturday. As it is the end of a financial quarter, I'm told she got a pretty good deal too.
 
I think the general consensuses is that its only worth doing on cheaper cars, as you could get more than the scrappage amount off a higher priced car by just haggling.
 
amigafan2003 said:
You'll probably not get much real world experience from people on this forum as most of us have more sense than to use the scrappage scheme.
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First tip: ignore this guy.

We've recently ordered a Golf MKVI. Got £5,200 off retail price via online discounts in conjunction with £2k scrappage scheme. We're scrapping a 'N' reg Polo with 91k miles on the clock, that we doubt will pass its MOT without work totalling similar to what the car is currently worth. This makes it worth zero, however your and my tax payer pounds are making it worth £2k! Cheers!

Can't really argue. The only reason we are still running such a cheap car is that we both work very close to home. However circumstances have conspired to mean that this was the right move at the right time.

All we had to do was send a scanned copy of the V5 and MOT certificate to the dealer that we made the purchase from. They take care of the rest by picking up the old car after the new one has been delivered.

Normal discounts on the VW Golf do not come close to what we have achieved, so those that say you can get more by normal haggling are also BS'ing, no offence. I'd like to see them walk into a VW dealer and try and achieve a 23% discount.
 
Normal discounts on the VW Golf do not come close to what we have achieved, so those that say you can get more by normal haggling are also BS'ing, no offence. I'd like to see them walk into a VW dealer and try and achieve a 23% discount.
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Father in law got an 18k list price Passat for £13300 (26% discount by my reckoning). Forecourt manager said the discount with a scrappage car would have been the same (i.e. he'd have subtracted the scrappage bonus from the discount).

21% off a Passat here:-

http://www.heritagewestbury.co.uk/offers/passat-offers.shtml

In fact, every new car I've looked at in the last couple of months are attracting the same kind of discounts, Ford excepted.

Anyone that thinks they got a good deal from the scrappage scheme has been reeled in by the salesman.

One thing that made me lol:-

without work totalling similar to what the car is currently worth. This makes it worth zero
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So, if the cost of the work equals how much the car is worth and you say the car is worth zero, does that mean the work wouldn't have cost anything? Why didn't you just get it repaired then :-P
 
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Robbie G said:
First tip: ignore this guy.

We've recently ordered a Golf MKVI. Got £5,200 off retail price via online discounts in conjunction with £2k scrappage scheme. We're scrapping a 'N' reg Polo with 91k miles on the clock, that we doubt will pass its MOT without work totalling similar to what the car is currently worth. This makes it worth zero, however your and my tax payer pounds are making it worth £2k! C
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However much you want to believe it, you aren't getting 2k off the price, you are getting the 1k that the government is giving you. The dealer supplies the other 1k if they want to, so it would be available in negotiations anyway.

You are also buying a Golf which has a retail price from la-la land, so even without the scrappage scheme you'd have got a healthy discount.
 
amigafan2003 said:
I'll see your 23% and raise you 1%:-

http://www.heritagewestbury.co.uk/exdemos/golf.shtml
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But I was referring to a brand new Golf, not an ex-demo Golf Plus. Plus's aren't as highly in demand as Golfs. We didn't want a Plus so what I'm saying is that there's no possible way we could have bettered or even matched our discount for a brand new Golf without the scrappage scheme. I don't know how you can seriously post me an ex-demo Golf Plus as a counter to my argument.

Dogbreath - see my above comment, but to add to that, you are right that Golfs are priced highly, but they are seriously much nicer places to be than their direct hatchback competitors. They are better built, more refined, and nobody else in the class has an engine like the 1.4 TSi 160PS.

You are also right that 'The dealer (read: manufacturer) supplies the other 1k if they want to', however this part: 'so it would be available in negotiations anyway' is simply not true.

Go away and try if you want to, but until you have, I'm telling you simply that it's not possible to achieve the discount we have via the scrappage scheme on a brand new factory ordered MkVI Golf. The other advantage is that we don't have to arrange the scrapping of the Polo ourselves.
 
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Depending on the actual car itself depends on if its worth it, as obviously some wont have the same profit margin as others for the dealer yet the scrap scheme is a straight 2k off no matter what.



However arranging to scrap a car isnt hard.

Phone up, hi I would like to scrap this car please.

Does it drive, can you bring it do us, or do we need to collect?

Agree a date and time and then they come and collect it or you take it in and claim your money for the scrap value of it.
 
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Berger said:
However arranging to scrap a car isnt hard.

Phone up, hi I would like to scrap this car please.

Does it drive, can you bring it do us, or do we need to collect?

Agree a date and time and then they come and collect it or you take it in and claim your money for the scrap value of it.
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You are right, the process itself is not exactly hard. I've just never experienced a scrapyard that doesn't charge you to collect your car. Maybe that's just a case of limited experience.
 
Robbie G said:
You are right, the process itself is not exactly hard. I've just never experienced a scrapyard that doesn't charge you to collect your car. Maybe that's just a case of limited experience.
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I had no problems a year ago getting a scrapyard to collect a shell.

They came and rolled it off the drive as i put some steelies on, lifted it onto a HIAB and took it away.

I dropped the V5 off with them and collected £50.

Besides, the car needs to have MOT/Tax to be suitable for the scheme so you could drive it there anyway ;)
 
The shell of what car out of interest?

You are right, I could drive it there, but with this scheme I don't have to. Very small point in the scheme of things I agree.
 
Robbie G said:
The shell of what car out of interest?

You are right, I could drive it there, but with this scheme I don't have to. Very small point in the scheme of things I agree.
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It was a Rover Coupe.

Had an engine and box still attached of which the gearbox had some suspected damage and/or the clutch did. I didnt want to remove it and make a mess of the drive so left it in, filled the interior with rubbish left over from stripping it and had it collected and taken away.
 
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