Battery buying

I usually buy from GSF and expect to pay £30 for a Bosch calcium battery.

Local auto factor. Halfrauds and any of the national chains tend to want the sort of price you ask. My local factor (trading online as buypartsby) ask £30-35 depending on the battery - County Batteries are about the same price.

My local chappy, who is usually very reasonable, bordering on cheap, quoted £62+vat, which surprised me.

Ta, I'll ask around more locally.

Si

Maybe not a surprise given lead has tripled in price in the last few months.

Ahh... that'll be it then. Didn't know that.

Si

All scrap is very high right now. I got over £40 for a trailerful of old car parts, mostly very rusty, and £80 for the ally bits of an old caravan. I heard copper was something like £20k a tonne.

What's the form for taking scrap to a dealer? Does it need to be a certain weight, or to be cut up, cleaned of non-metal or what?

I have a couple of old car doors to get rid of but I doubt if I'll get anything else sizeable for a while...

General scrap, they'll take just about anything. You don't get as much cash as you do for clean stuff, but it gets rid of it all for you, you get a few quid in your pocket and you're helping to recycle. They'll usually take fairly small weights, though I tend to pile it up until I have a trailerful.

Non-ferrous is another matter; it needs to be clean to get best price, but they will take small weights - I've seen people take in just a plastic sackful.

doors would go in as 'light iron', locally that is 80 quid a tonne. just find a local scrap merchant and go along, you may be asked for identity (probably not) so take a driving licence or passport

Sounds like a good plan. Cheers both.