How to scrap out a car?

[jamesqf]

Originally Posted by zjrog

My buddy got the back half of the Jeep and turned it into a trailer...

With which you could haul the rest off to the scrapyard, and so the snake swallows itself :-)

I'm curious, though. You needed the title for the front half at the yard, but your buddy probably needed some sort of title to register the trailer...

[Ryland]

you don't need to cut a car up to scrap it out but the price per ton does go up if you do have it in 3 foot or smaller chunks, I think it goes up by close to $50 per ton at current prices, but most scrap yards will take whatever you have, in whatever shape it's in, if you have a title I think they give you a little more and have less paper work for you to fill out.

[Coyote X]

It is also a perfect time to get rid of any scrap metal you have laying around. Just pile it in the car when you haul it in. They usually don't care what kind of metal is in it as long as it isn't fence wire. The current rate locally is $7 per 100lbs so the heavier the car the more $$$ you get. Every place I have taken scrap to usually gives you less for scrap metal than a car. But if you take the scrap metal in with the car they give you the car price on all of it.

If it has steel rims they usually take the rims off and give them back to you so if you want them gone as well pull the tires off the rims before taking it in. Just use a recip saw with a metal blade and cut the tires in half to take them off. It isn't like you care if the rims get damaged a bit when removing them.

[Peter7307]

Not to go against what has been posted already the Merc W123 series is a car owners like to keep on the road if possible so parting out the car and posting it as such on a Mercedes board may be a better option.

Have a look at:
PeachParts - Mercedes Parts & Tech Info as a starting point.

In my limited experience Carigs lists . ebay and the like are populated by people wanting either everything for nothing or close to it or people wanting this but not that - timewasters in other words.
Tread carefully.

Peter.

[zjrog]

Trailer will get a new title and a new VIN as a new construction. Be careful with trailers, as different states have different requirements based on size and weight. For example, here in Utah, many trailers don't need a plate at all, as long as it doesn't exceed 750 pounds dry. This one weighs just under 750 without fluids. 3 guys can pick it up. But since my friend intends to take it through other states, he will register it. We did consider keeping the VIN tag and the title for a later crawler project, but we did get a bit more for the scrap with the title. Or, let me rephrase that. I gave the scrap and the title to another friend that had helped me a lot, so HE got the money...

[RandomFact314]

I got $200 for old Fiero

I would try to ebay it if you think you have that kind of time for all the money to come, if you don't, scrap it.