So you have an old beater in your driveway and it doesn't run and you don't have the time to restore it back to working order. You need the space and you're just not sure what to do with it. Have you thought about junking it? You can actually make some money junking an old car, and the older the better. The value of most of the junk cars comes from the metal which in turn can put money in your pockets. So how do you junk a car? It's much easier than it sounds.
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How To Junk A Car For Cash |
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Junking a car can be as simple as donating a car to charity. You can usually find someone who looks for cars to junk on local classifieds or on Craigslist. This will get the car taken away and junked for you and you can still earn some money thought it won't be as much as would be if you were to do the junking yourself. So the next step would be to call all your local salvage yards or ones that are relatively close to you and see what rules they have for junking cars and if they need to prepared in a certain way. Some places require that the car needs to run so that you can drive it onto a scale and get paid by the weight.
This can bring in some money but probably not as much as you would like. You would also have to take in count that older cars were almost completely metal where as car's today were basically designed to break and are mostly plastic.
The next way to junk a car is to dismantle it.This can be quite a load of fun, especially if you like to use a blowtorch. This is probably also the best way to junk a car should it not run anymore. Cut the little rust bucket up into pieces and load it onto a trailer. The salvage yard will most of the time give you more money for a car prepared this way as the employees don't have to do much work since you have already done it for them. If you have a newer car make sure that before you take the dismantled parts into the salvage yard that you know which parts are metal and which parts are plastic.
Newer cars are meant to break apart in a car accident to lessen the occurrence of injury so most of the parts put on them are plastic or non-metal materials. Things such as bumpers are going to be plastic where as the doors and frame are going to be metal.
There is one more option to junking your car. Gut the whole entire car. Take the tires, the hoses in the engine, the fluids, head lights, seats, everything that isn't metal and set it aside. The profit you make off junking a car is the metal. Metal is a precious thing and it means wads of green in your pocket. So while you're gutting your car keep everything that is metal with it. Make sure that separate metal pieces into different piles of metals such as steel goes with steel and so on. The more metal the better for you. Some people make their living off of grabbing people's junk cars and salvaging them.
Once you have finished deciding on how to prepare your car and which salvage or junk yard to use make sure you take your registration and title. Not all places require this but some have rules on purchasing a junk car. Make sure you check the rules for the junkyard. Once everything is there you get the metal weighed and you get paid! It's a pretty simple process to junk a car.
Knowing how to junk a car and which parts of the car are the most valuable can make you a profit and get that pile of junk sitting in your driveway out of the way. Remember to ask for the salvage yard's rules and regulations on junking a car other wise you could be dismantling and loading up a car for profit and when you get there realize the junkyard doesn't accept the car like that. Always remember to use safety precautions as well. There no point in making a profit off a junk car if you're going to use that money for the stitches you need because you accidentally cut your hand on a piece of metal.
