Scrapping Car?

agw_01 · 1 Mar 2006 at 23:01

Yeah, something like that.

Can't you transfer it on top of your company car insurance?

Dangerous · 1 Mar 2006 at 23:02

I asked tescos before and they would count my company car insurance not sure about others.

Phil W · 1 Mar 2006 at 23:03

My mates got a Fiat Panda sat in his filed, SORN'd. He insures it for something silly like £100 a year, and gets all his NCB built up !

Dangerous · 1 Mar 2006 at 23:04

Aye ive built up 3-4 years now and dont want to lose them.

Simon · 1 Mar 2006 at 23:04

The scrapper will want the V5 to prove the car is legit

Dangerous · 1 Mar 2006 at 23:06

Rubbish

Ah well will get rid of the Nova then

agw_01 · 1 Mar 2006 at 23:08

Phil W said:
My mates got a Fiat Panda sat in his filed, SORN'd. He insures it for something silly like £100 a year, and gets all his NCB built up !

That's clever as hell!

/looks to buy scrapped 1.1 Nova

But can't the insurance check that the car is declared SORN?

Siliconslave · 1 Mar 2006 at 23:12

when i scrapped our h2r volvo in rome we hadn't got the v5 through the post yet. Just got a recipt of scrapping from the scrap yard and sent it off with the v5 filled in to the dvla and got a nice letter back saying cheers, its now scrapped.

The scrap yard is supposed to sign the v5 and send it off, but you can get round that if you ask nicely / take it abroad

edit - i wonder how much of a car you need to have for it to count as a car....

/siliconslave cuts up old rust bucket bins all the bits and keeps the VIN plates

and i've insured SORN'd cars, your still insuring them against theft, fire and other peeps introducing their cars to them at high speed ain't you

Kamerad · 1 Mar 2006 at 23:13

The skoda that bad eh?

Dangerous · 1 Mar 2006 at 23:15

I'm loving the Skoda actually

[TW]Fox · 1 Mar 2006 at 23:16

You cannot legally insure something which you do not have an insurable interest in. A scrapped car is something you have no insurable interest in.

Plus the fact that filling in the details and saying you own said car when actually the car doesn't even exist is, technically, lying, and of course lying for financial gain (in this case the financial gain being discount achieved through building NCB) is fraud.

Soooooooo there we go.

Siliconslave · 1 Mar 2006 at 23:23

[TW]Fox said:
Soooooooo there we go.

arrr... but if you don't scrap it, but get rid of everything you don't need then declare whats left as "slightly modified" and of zero value....

Rotty · 1 Mar 2006 at 23:28

Dangerous said:
I asked tescos before and they would count my company car insurance not sure about others.

admiral gave me 5yrs introductory because I had been driving a company car

penski · 2 Mar 2006 at 05:37

Dangerous said:
1.2 Nova and 1.4Si Metro that engine actually works fine but rusted to hell.

I will keep insuring the Metro for NCB if I can just scrape it.

Cut a few bits of Nova out (slam panel and engine block should do it, also include the bit with the VIN) and stick them in your garage. You still own the car.

*n

happytechie · 2 Mar 2006 at 09:07

I insured my old escort's battery for about a year after I sold it. £250 pa TPFT and another years ncd. I put a reduced mileage on it as well.

I don't know if you could get away with it now seeing as the MOT results the tax details from the DVLA and the insurance companies are all joined up and talking to each other.

HT

SgtTupac · 2 Mar 2006 at 11:05

Find a scrap yard which wont ask for the V5 (plenty about) take off the number plates and angle grind any numbers off, keep V5 and send car to scrap yard. Or if your feeling really naughty, cut numbers off and number plate and dump where the local youths dump nicked cars. Not a problem