Why scrap your car in Watford?

There’s a multitude of reasons you may want to scrap your old car in Watford. Perhaps most frequently, the car has failed its MOT and is too expensive to repair. Less commonly, a car can develop a fault whilst the owner is already considering the purchase of a new vehicle. Because, just diagnosing a fault in a car can be expensive, you may consider simply scrapping the car instead.

The government’s car scrappage scheme provides some extra encouragement to scrap an old car to a few people in Watford. If your old car meets the strict requirements set out by the government, you may be able to get a discount on a new car by scrapping your old car.

The fact that any car must be taxed, unless it is declared off the road, probably provides the most pressing need people have to scrap their cars. This is true even if the car is broken and not in use. In order to avoid paying extra road tax it is best to scrap a broken car at the first opportunity. When you scrap a car that still has time left on its tax disk you can claim back the road tax for the time remaining.

It’s also good for the environment to scrap old cars. Old cars are far less fuel efficient than newer cars, which means that they produce larger amounts of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. By scrapping a car and replacing it with a new one you will be reducing your carbon footprint. Also, when we scrap a car at Scrap Car Watford we ensure that as much of your old car is reused or recycled as possible.