Scrap Your Car in Exeter
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Areas we cover in and around Exeter
We collect scrap cars across Exeter and the surrounding area, including:
We also collect further out: see our page for Bournemouth.
The end of the motorway, and the hills after it
The M5 stops at Exeter. Everything west of here is A road, and the A30 and A38 carry the whole peninsula on two lanes for long stretches, filling up every summer with caravans and returning again every Friday evening. Exeter has no Clean Air Zone, so an older car is not charged anything to drive here. What finishes cars in Devon is the geography: steep hills out of every valley, narrow lanes that scrape sills and wheels, and salt air on three coasts. When the next repair bill is more than the car is worth as scrap, that is usually the moment to take a quote.
Did you know? The oldest motoring event in the country still runs past Exeter every January The Motor Cycling Club has run the Exeter Trial since 1910, when it began as the London to Exeter and Back Winter Club Run: 322 miles, setting off on the night after Boxing Day, in whatever the winter threw at you. It was designed to be harder than the club's other trials not through distance but through weather. It still runs every January, with a few hundred cars and motorcycles taking on Devon hills with names like Simms, Tillerton and Slippery Sam. Anything from a Model T to a modern hatchback can enter, and competitors are marked on whether they get up the hill, not on speed. |
What the Exeter numbers tell you
We have collected 1,979 vehicles from EX postcodes since 2014. All-time, the Ford Focus is Exeter's most scrapped car, at 117.
The best local price of the past year was £232, paid for a 2008 Ford Galaxy Edge Tdci 100. The furthest back the local records reach is a 1977 Mg B Gt. Out-of-the-ordinary cars have a habit of earning out-of-the-ordinary quotes.
All figures from our completed collections in EX postcodes: all-time figures from August 2014; yearly figures to August 2026. Updated each quarter.
Scrapping a car in Exeter
Your car goes to a licensed Authorised Treatment Facility, regulated by the Environment Agency, and you receive a Certificate of Destruction confirming it has been legally recycled. Cash payment for scrap vehicles is banned by law, so payment is made by bank transfer, typically the same day, and the DVLA is notified as standard. The whole sequence is covered in the five steps to scrapping a car, and how a car is recycled explains the guarantee behind the price. Older cars that are worth more than scrap are covered on the salvage page.
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