Car dismantlers for East Kilbride: free collection to a licensed facility

Motor Salvage Group buys cars for dismantling from addresses across East Kilbride and collects them free. We pay by bank transfer to an account in your name and deliver the car to a licensed Authorised Treatment Facility partner. There it is depolluted, stripped of reusable parts and shredded so the metals can be recycled.

Our part ends when the car leaves East Kilbride and is delivered. The depollution and dismantling are the facility's, and so is the Certificate of Destruction when the car is scrapped. Telling the DVLA you have sold the car to the motor trade is down to you. We do not sell the parts recovered from the cars we deliver. If you are still weighing up buyers, see how to choose a car scrapper.

East Kilbride is about 115 miles from our Fort William base, and we have no depot in South Lanarkshire. Collections here share scheduled runs with Glasgow and the rest of Lanarkshire, and the date is agreed when you accept the price. Until then the car can stay where it is, whether that is at home or at work. Postcodes, districts and how collection runs in East Kilbride are on our local collection notes.

What happens to your car after it leaves East Kilbride

Here, in brief, is what happens once the recovery truck pulls away from East Kilbride. At the facility the car is booked in and checked against the details recorded at collection. Trained staff drain its fuel, oil, coolant and refrigerant and remove the battery, tyres and airbags. Parts worth reusing are taken off and stored. The bare shell goes to a shredder, which reduces it to small pieces so that ferrous and non-ferrous metals can be separated and recycled. The facility, not us, records the car as destroyed with the DVLA and issues the Certificate of Destruction when the car is scrapped.

What to tell us before a car is dismantled

A few details change how a car is collected and where it goes, so give them when you send the reg. Say if the car is leaking fuel, oil or coolant, if it has been in a fire or a flood, or if an airbag has gone off. Say if it is electric or hybrid, because those go to partners equipped for high-voltage batteries. Tell us about access at your address in East Kilbride: a narrow lane, a low garage, or a car with no wheels. Then have photo ID ready, and the V5C if you have it. Empty the car of your belongings and leave the battery and fluids alone: depollution is done at the facility.

How to tell a car is going to the right place

The certificate is the reason the destination matters. A Certificate of Destruction shows that your car was treated and destroyed legally, and only an Authorised Treatment Facility can issue one. A yard without that authorisation cannot, however convincing its paperwork looks. The facilities we use are licensed partners, and we will name the one taking your car from East Kilbride if you ask. When the certificate arrives, keep it with the DVLA's confirmation that you sold the car to the motor trade and a note of the price and the collection date. Together they answer any later question about the car.

Read our full guide to how car dismantling works, see what happens after you send the reg, or send us the reg.