Scrap my car in South Yorkshire
South Yorkshire is where Scrap My Car Online started and where most of the cars we have ever priced come from: Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster, Barnsley and the pit villages of the Dearne Valley between them. Several licensed yards compete for cars here, which is why the prices are among the best in the country.
- Towns we collect from
- 16
- Cars collected here
- 15,354
- Collected by
- Licensed local yards
Since February 2024 the network has collected 15,354 cars across South Yorkshire, 6,049 of them in the last year, at a typical price of £236 recently. Our own records, not estimates.
The big towns in South Yorkshire
- Scrap my car in SheffieldThe biggest city in our records — thousands of cars priced across S1 to S36, with several licensed yards competing for them.6,033 cars collected · family hatchback from £230 today
- Scrap my car in RotherhamRotherham and its villages — Rawmarsh, Swinton, Wath, Maltby, Dinnington — with collectors on both sides of the borough.2,636 cars collected · family hatchback from £230 today
- Scrap my car in DoncasterDoncaster, Mexborough, Conisbrough and the villages out to Bentley and Adwick — one of the busiest areas in our records.2,986 cars collected · family hatchback from £210 today
- Scrap my car in BarnsleyThe town and the Dearne Valley side — Wombwell, Hoyland, Goldthorpe — priced against the yards nearest each village.1,978 cars collected · family hatchback from £230 today
Priced against the yards that actually collect here
When you enter a South Yorkshire registration and postcode, the site checks what every approved collector covering that district will pay for that car today and shows you the best of them. The collector who wins is a licensed Authorised Treatment Facility within a short drive — Sheffield, Rotherham and Doncaster all have more than one — so the price is local and the lorry is local too.
What the numbers say
We have priced and collected more cars in the S and DN postcodes than anywhere else, and every town page below shows its own figures from our records: how many cars have gone from that town and what a typical one fetched recently. Sheffield alone runs into the thousands. Those figures are ours, not a national estimate.
Every kind of car, every kind of street
South Yorkshire is hills and terraces — Sheffield especially — and the yards that work it are used to kerbside loading on a slope, cars with seized brakes, cars in garages and cars on permit streets. MOT failures, non-runners, write-offs and vans are priced the same way as anything else; condition changes the figure, not whether someone comes.
Paid within 24 hours, paperwork done
The collector pays the registered keeper by bank transfer within 24 hours of collection — cash for scrap has been illegal since 2013 — and because every yard on the network is an Authorised Treatment Facility, the Certificate of Destruction is issued and the DVLA is told you are no longer the keeper. No V5C? Photo ID and proof of address are what the yard needs to see.
Scrap car prices in South Yorkshire today
The least the network is paying today across South Yorkshire for a typical example of each type, in average condition with the catalytic converter, wheels and battery present. Your own town may be higher; your registration gives the exact figure.
| Small hatchbacke.g. Ford Fiesta, Vauxhall Corsa | from £165 |
| Family hatchbacke.g. Ford Focus, VW Golf | from £210 |
| Saloon or estatee.g. Ford Mondeo, BMW 3 Series | from £240 |
| SUV or 4x4e.g. Nissan Qashqai, Land Rover Freelander | from £270 |
| Vane.g. Ford Transit, Vauxhall Vivaro | from £370 |
Every town we cover in South Yorkshire
Each has its own page with the postcodes, today’s prices where a collector currently covers them, and the questions people there ask us.
Sheffield area (S postcodes)
Doncaster area (DN postcodes)
Questions people in South Yorkshire ask us
- Who actually collects my car in South Yorkshire?
- A licensed scrap yard near you — an Authorised Treatment Facility that has been approved onto the network and has agreed a price for your postcode. Several cover the county, and the one that pays the most for your car gets the job. You are told who they are when you accept the price.
- Is collection free across South Yorkshire?
- Yes. The collector's price already includes the recovery truck, so the figure you accept online is the figure paid into your bank — nothing comes off it on the day unless the car is not as described.
- How quickly can it be collected?
- Where a yard covers your postcode, usually within one to three days. The collector rings you — normally within a couple of hours of you accepting — to agree a day, and the driver confirms before setting off.
- Do you cover the villages as well as the cities?
- Every S and DN postcode district is priced, from the city centres out to the pit villages, and each town below has its own page with the postcodes it covers and today's prices.