When the Car Is Fine and You Still Need It Gone
A lot of the vehicles we collect are not scrap at all. They start, they drive, and in some cases they are barely used. They just have no place in the household any more, and clearing them has sat on a list for months because it is not obvious where to begin.
These are the situations we are called about most, and each one has its own wrinkle.
Deceased estates
Clearing a parent’s or relative’s car is one of the more common reasons people ring us, and it usually arrives alongside a great many other things that need doing. The vehicle is often in good order but has not been driven for months, and the registration has quietly lapsed.
We can handle estate sales. What we need is documentation showing you are authorised to sell the vehicle — probate, letters of administration, or an executor letter is generally sufficient. If you are unsure what you have or whether it is enough, call and describe it; we will tell you plainly whether we can proceed, rather than sending a truck and leaving you with a problem.
Moving house, or moving away
Interstate and overseas moves generate a specific kind of urgency: a settlement or lease-end date that does not move, and a car that has to be dealt with before it. Selling privately is rarely realistic on that timeline.
Tell us the date you need it gone by. If it is achievable we will book to it, and if it is genuinely not we will say so rather than let you find out on the day.
The second car nobody drives
Households accumulate vehicles. A car kept “in case”, a teenager’s first car after they moved out, a vehicle that came with a relationship that has since ended. It is registered or it is not, it is insured or it is not, and every year it costs a little more to keep than to let go.
There is nothing to prepare. It does not need cleaning, servicing, a roadworthy or a wash. We assess it as it sits.
Cars left behind by someone else
Landlords and property managers call us about vehicles tenants have abandoned; so do body corporates dealing with a car that has been in a visitor bay for a year. This one comes with a genuine legal complication: you cannot sell a vehicle you do not own, however long it has been there.
There is a proper process for abandoned vehicles in the ACT and it runs through the relevant authority rather than through us. We are happy to talk you through what we understand of it, but we will not buy a car from someone who cannot establish they are entitled to sell it. That protects you as much as it protects us.
What happens once you decide
One call gives you a figure. If it works for you, we book a time, come to the address, pay you on the spot by cash, Osko or PayID, hand you a receipt of sale, and tow the car away at no cost. You are left with the registration cancellation to lodge, which takes a few minutes online, and we will remind you how.
