Make Money From Your Old, Non-Runner If your old car has recently been in an accident, is not roadworthy, or has problems that are more expensive to fix than the real value of the car; it is probably time to bite the bullet, put it out of its misery and send it to the great scrap yard in the sky. [...]
Scrapping your car If you decide to scrap your car for cash, please make sure that the car is decommissioned at an authorised treatment facility (ATF) to ensure that the vehicle is de-polluted and recycled correctly and to the strict ELV directive which came into force in 2004. The first job at an ATF is for the car to be [...]
Scrap Your Car Legally Many individuals feel that they can easily dispose of a scrap car without involving an authorised car breaker. However there are a number of pitfalls such as hazardous waste that would break certain rules and regulations if an unwanted vehicle is not disposed of by a government licensed breakers yard. Dealing with a licensed car breaker [...]
Valuable Salvage Car Parts Many people aren’t aware of the possible cash that can be made from recycling their car. For many years, scrap yards and breakers yards have been labelled as places that are only visited by people who are looking for a quick fix or looking for a legal dumping ground for their old scrap cars. Here at [...]
Car Engines Types With the ever advancing development of technology over the last century, engines have been modified and refined and many different methods for powering cars catch on and from time to time change the way we drive. Despite the mass amount of differing types of cars that are available on the market today, most cars still use the [...]
How Much Does Your Old Car Cost You? Your car may be your pride and joy and over the years it has managed to get you from A to B, but have you thought about just how much it might be costing you every year? Expenses The first expenses you may think of are the insurance, the tax and of [...]
What happens to the Used Engine? When a vehicle is submitted to us at Allstar breakers, there are many parts of the car that may be able to be reused in other vehicles, one of these parts is an engine! Engines can be very expensive to buy new so a used engine can be valuable depending on its condition. If [...]
use your local ‘end of life vehicle’ centres Your old vehicle has come to the end of its road and you need to dispose of it. Do you know where you would go or what to do? Environmental protection legislation brought in by the government around 2005 has changed all the rules surrounding end of life vehicle disposal. Today we [...]
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