How to Deal With an Old Unwanted Car?

Like any other means of transportation, cars also have a lifespan and sooner or later the car will start to fall off and the car’s owner will start to frequent mechanics and repair shops. Sometimes, the amount of cash spent on the car exceeds the car’s true value, leading the owner to start figuring out a better way to stop this time and financial strain.

The car’s owner, when reaching this phase, finds himself in a very confusing situation. What else to do with that junk or what’s left of it, the car is too old and the damage is beyond being simply fixed, the selling in the conventional way is highly excluded and no one will pay money for a junk that is no longer functioning or is no longer safe to drive. Here, the owner’s frequently asked question is, how to get rid of this old broken-down car? Literally, the question shifts from selling to getting rid, since there is a complete despair and no hope to make money off that car that is of no other use, but sitting idle at his property or the driveway occupying a space that may be used creatively or for something more valuable. More than just taking up space, an old car is an enemy to the environment that increasingly causes damage to it, therefore, it goes beyond causing harm to the car’s owner alone to contribute to the continuing harm humanity does to our planet.

Here in this article we have gathered four ways to get rid of an old car than just abandoning it as another refuse dumb on the driveway and how you still be able to make money of it; no matter on what condition it is or how it looks like. As you heard, that unwanted car that you have no idea what to do with and wanted just to sand it away and get your space back, actually has a value and would get you good cash in return. You can get over $10k if you know how to do it properly. So how do you go about it?

Car Wreckers

Our first solution for you is car wrecker services. In case you think your car is not 100% dead and there are still some useful parts on it which can be reused and employed in other vehicles, then hiring a car wrecker company is your perfect option. Car wrecker companies in simple terms, buy old or unwanted cars and the offer they give to the car’s owner is based on different criteria, they go over every single part in the car, looking for any useful pieces or devices that are still functioning properly and can be reused, the more useful parts are there in the car the more amount of money the car’s owner would get. These companies pull out those valuable parts off such as headlights, blinkers, taillights, seats, upholstery, exhaust system parts, mirror, alloy wheels, hubcaps, engines and engine parts, transmission systems, undamaged windows and windshields etc. and sell them separately and the rest of the car is sent to be scavenged for recyclable metal.

Scrap Car Removal Service

Unlike wrecker services, a scrap car removal service is your perfect choice if the vehicle is totally dead and nothing from it can be reused. While wreckers check over useful parts first before sending it for metal recycling, a scrap car removal service literally doesn’t care about the car’s parts or its condition and all they care about is the amount of metal in there. This is a perfect option if your car is useless and a total junk but it contains a large amount of metal on it, the more your car weighs the more money you can earn.

Scrap car removal services have no right to pull out or salvage the car’s parts and they are only allowed to take out the metal on it and that is what they are going to pay you for.

Part it Out on Your Own

Another great option to get rid of your car and make good money out of it, even more than what you may get from the two above mentioned ways, is to dismantle the car by yourself and go over every useful part of it. You can sell those parts separately on your own way and for the rest of the car then you can sell it to a scrap car removal company. Such a method is not easy and not every car’s owner is able to do, since it requires good knowledge and some technical skills to part out the car’s components. Hiring a mechanic to dismantle your car is also a good and still profitable option.

It is advisable to first try to make an inventory or list of the car’s useful items and parts and head out to a salvage yard or visit some online classified advertising websites such as Kijiji to determine the going rate for these items, by doing so you would be able to have a clear idea about the car’s parting out value and how much money you would ended up making.

Donate It

If you are into charitable activities and have a sense of sharing and creating smiles on other people’ faces. There are a number of associations out there that can take that unwanted wrecked car and turn it into a wish for other people who are in need. These foundations, for instance, create magical experiences for children with life-threatening or terminal illness, by arranging special meetings with celebrities or their super heroes.

Your donated vehicle is sold by these organizations at wholesale options and the useful parts of it are sent to a wrecker company or salvage services for sale. The Canadian company Rn Scrap Car Removal in Toronto says that these recycled materials keep a huge amount of steel out of landfills and are used in the construction of over 45000 houses and buildings a year.

What is believed to be useless junk to you can be turned into a wish maker and planet saver.

So instead of keeping that old junk car sitting idle on the driveway, you are now able to help someone else and at the same time save the planet.