There’s a multitude of reasons you may want to scrap your old car in Milton Keynes. Perhaps most frequently, the car has failed its MOT and is too expensive to repair. Other times, something can go wrong with a car whilst the owner is already considering a new vehicle. As just finding out what is wrong with a car can be costly you might want to scrap the car instead.

The government’s car scrappage scheme provides some extra encouragement to scrap an old car to a few people in Milton Keynes. If your old car meets the strict requirements set out by the government, you may be able to get a discount on a new car by scrapping your old car.

Scrapping an old car is also good for the environment. Newer cars are far more fuel efficient than older ones, meaning that they produce much smaller amounts of greenhouse gases. When someone scraps an older car in favour of a newer one they can greatly reduce their carbon footprint. By always reusing or recycling as much of a scrap car as possible, we at Scrap Car Milton Keynes are able to maximise the environmental benefits.

Perhaps the most pressing need to scrap your car in Milton Keynes comes from the fact that any car that is not declared off road needs to be taxed. This is true even if the car is broken and not in use. It’s best to scrap the car before its tax disk expires in order to avoid paying out again for road tax. Also, if you scrap your old car whilst it still has a lot of time left on its tax disc you can claim that tax back from the government once it has been scrapped.