Ordinarily, in the United Kingdom—mainly England and Wales—you can sell your car privately to an individual or to a dealer, but there are certain criteria one must follow. On your V5C registration certificate—known as the log book—you will see a section that you must complete for each type of sale. For instance, if you sell your car to a motor vehicle trader you should complete section three on your V5C certificate and get the signature of the dealer too. You must then mail it off to the DVLA in Swansea and give the V5C and the incomplete V5C section two part to the trader. You must be responsible for sending off your part to the DVLA because until they receive it you are still liable for the vehicle and anything that happens to it.
Many people mistake motor vehicle traders and scrap merchants for the same thing. However, this is not accurate and there are now new laws involved in the buying and selling of a vehicle to a scrap merchant. Previously one could simply take their car to the scrap dealer or wrecker’s yards and sign the vehicle over to them and obtain a certificate of destruction. However, now things are a tad different. As an example we will use Gloucester. Let’s say that you are looking for cash for cars in Gloucester. Most scrap merchants and wrecking yards will offer cash for non-runners and write-offs. If your vehicle is past its sell-by date you might be considering the idea of scrapping. What you need to consider in initially is the safe disposal.
What is Safe Disposal?
Nowadays, under new laws, all vehicles have to destroyed in an ‘ATF’—an authorized treatment facility—whereby the vehicle is broken up and dismantled in an environmentally friendlier way than previously. In order to obtain your CoD—Certificate of Destruction—you must have taken it to an ATF, which you can serve for on the DVLA website if you do not know of one. The ATF also has the option to re-sell your vehicle, in which case you will need to complete section three on the V5C. If your vehicle is off the road and has been broken into spares by you, you must have a SORN—Statutory Off Road Notice.
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