surfer_crx

Here is how you qualify for exemption
To the EA it is black and white, there are no grey areas. If you remove parts from a car and sell them they call that breaking operations and if you do it for reward you are a business. There is a massive difference between a garage and a scrapyard, if you have a garage you can remove all the fluids without any form of permit, you don't have to log quantities or fluid types or store them in the same way. I had the conversation until I was blue in the face but they kept referring to the official rules and until someone challenges that in a court of law that is how it will stay. The exemption is a nice idea but in reality does not and will not work because unless you know someone who owns an ATF then the chances are even if you pay them for the service they won't remove the fluids from the car and give you a depollution certificate and let you have the car back.

richmc

Then claim on your insurance!









No not really.

AquilaEagle

So I instruct my garage to take a part off so I can sell it, from time to time... I'm not a business

RattyS2k

Looks like James is going to be busy then Ian ;-)

surfer_crx

Nope, garages can't legally break cars unless they are an authorised treatment facility, which they won't be.

Take the parts off and sell them, take the car's frame with chassis number and v5 to the scrap yard and have them destroy it and notify the DVLA. Chances are you will be okay I've not read of anyone being caught yet and I did a lot of research on it last year.

AquilaEagle

Thanks surfer dude!

MarcS2000

Yes, remove all the fluids from the vehicle (engine oil, gearbox oil, diff oil, coolant, brake fluid, aircon gas), sell what parts you want off of it, then if you're not selling the chassis, take it to local scrap yard where they will issue a certificate of destruction for the car. If you sell the chassis then its the same as selling a normal car, V5 filled out with new keepers details and sent off to DVLA.

TangoVTEC

When I scrapped my crashed S2 I SORN'd, did all the dismantling/parts selling you might expect, then I sent a covering letter with all requisite details regarding the chassis and former registration to the DVLA along with the V5. I stated that the damaged bare shell contained no fluids, CFC's or flammables (which it didn't) and that the shell had been handled by a scrap metal merchant. I received a confirmation letter a couple of weeks later stating that I was no longer the registered keeper, the chassis/VRM no longer existed and that no further action was required.

Which was nice