When the car is totally un-safe to drive, rusted so badly that it needs to be replaced or simply too old for the road, it becomes industrial scrap. Not only does it take up space on your South Australian residential or commercial property, it also is an opportunity to use the raw metal components of the total salvage vehicle to generate high-yield financial returns.
Our Scrap Car Removal service at Best Car Removals Adelaide pays you the maximum market value for the weight of the raw metal, core catalytic elements and secondary recyclable parts of your end-of-life vehicle. We don’t base our opinion of a car on the paintwork, broken windows or even missing interior parts. Whether your car is a shell on blocks or otherwise, our heavy-duty crane trucks and hydraulic recovery vehicles can be called straight to you anywhere in the Adelaide metropolitan area to remove your car without any cost.
Our Green Auto Recycling Process: 98% Material Reclamation
When you decide to use our car scrapping services, you will know you are dealing with an environmentally conscious firm that takes public health and ecological protection very seriously, in fact, 98% of the materials are being recovered. Vehicles that are neglected and allowed to fall into disrepair in open yards or fields can be harmful to local South Australian ecosystems. As time goes on the dangerous chemicals seep into the ground and contaminate the water table.
- Hazardous Waste Abatement: We systematically remove all of the vehicles, including the highly toxic engine oil, brake fluid, cooling liquid and sulfuric battery acids, which are safely isolated to prevent leaching into the environment by our licensed salvage technicians.
- Carefully harvesting the precious metals in the catalytic components from the inside, such as platinum, palladium and rhodium, and safely returning them to specific clean-tech industrial cycles.
- Heavy Steel Shredding and Reprocessing: The structural iron, steel and aluminum car frames are completely crushed and baled and then brought to local metallurgical foundries where they are melted down into a clean, reusable commercial steel alloy.
This efficient process recycles up to 98% of the vehicle’s gross structural weight, ensuring that no junk metals are added to South Australia’s landfills.
Which Kind Of Scrap Vehicle Can Be Accepted?
Our processing equipment is capable of processing metals and structures of all weights and classifications.
- Rusted-Out Commuter Cars & Station Wagons: Cars and station wagons with extensive rust damage to the chassis, sills and floorboards that make them structurally unsound to drive.
- Blown-Engine Delivery Vans & Working Utes: Work vehicles with an extremely high mileage and are experiencing catastrophic mechanical failure.
- Commercial Fleet Chassis & Construction Trucks: Heavy duty work vehicles, machinery chassis, delivery trucks used out of service.
How We Safely Manage Airbags, Pyrotechnics, and Structural Tensions
The stripped-down project shells are unfinished project cars, rolling shells, and project cars that have already been somewhat disrobed for parts by the hobbyists. Removing a heavily damaged vehicle presents special physical challenges and requires special training and equipment. Volatile structural and chemical hazards exist in an accident salvage vehicle, which our team is well licensed to address:
- Un-deployed Airbag Modules: Airbags or seat belt pretensioners may not have deployed during a crash, and therefore contain live pyrotechnic charges. These modules are processed with the utmost care to neutralise them safely.
- The steel body panels, the shattered safety glass and the bent suspension parts subjected to tremendous physical stress can cause serious injuries when handled incorrectly. Heavy-duty hydraulic cranes, industrial winches, and reinforced flatbeds enable us to easily lift and secure the vehicle entirely on its own.
- Post-Crash Fluid Containment: Radiator cores, oil pans and fuel lines often fail during an accident. Chemical spill kits and absorbent mats are essential items in our crew’s kit and if there is any chance of a spill occurring while we are loading your boat or working on the winches, we will have them on board to prevent the introduction of stain or any other hazardous chemicals to your property or holding yard.
Direct Pick-Up from Holding Yards, Panel Shops, and Crash Sites
The removal of a car from panel shops, crash sites or holding yards may be a complex logistical challenge.
- Vehicle Recovery Companies: If the workshop has decided that the structural damage is too costly to repair and it’s not worth the vehicle’s market value, we will arrange for it to be picked up from one of their centres.
- Holding and Storage Yards: Emergency priority collection to remove your vehicle promptly, prevent inordinate storage bills.
- Private Residential Properties: If your vehicle was smashed and is now in the driveway or on the lawn, our drivers employ special winches to gently pull it out without causing any harm to your property.
Variety At Adelaide: Types Of Vehicles We Buy
We Buy Commercial Vehicles of Every Size, Make, and Model. Our heavy duty vehicle salvage yards are well equipped to deal with commercial industrial transport machinery, bigger wheel bases, and working heavy transport trucks etc. Due to the quality of all commercial vehicles, it is seen that the price of the scrap and the salvage of the commercial vehicles are always high.
We offer competitive cash offers on all of the major commercial vehicle manufacturers including:
- Toyota HiAce delivery vans, Hilux work single and double cab and LandCruiser work vehicles.
- Nissan: Trade vehicles: Nissan Navara, Nissan Urvan (transit van), rugged commercial patrol 4×4’s.
- Ford & Holden: Ranger commercials, Transit cargo vans and a good old working Ford utility.
- Heavy duty box trucks, tippers, flatbed freight trucks & industrial light commercial trucks by Isuzu, Hino & Fuso. An old, non-functioning car is a bad idea to leave sitting in the driveway.
Top 3 Benefits of Car Recycling: Why You Should Get Rid Of Your Scrap Car
Toxic chemicals and heavy metals make up a cocktail that is hazardous in the vehicle. If left unchecked, they pose an immediate risk to the public, invite pests and contravene the requirements of the local municipal council bylaws.
- Prevents Chemical Leaching: As a car degrades, important hoses and seals become faulty. This results in the direct release of carcinogenic engine oils, corrosive brake fluids and toxic lead-acid battery acids into your soil so that local Adelaide ground water tables are permanently polluted.
- Energy saved: 75% less energy is used to process recycled structural steel than to mine virgin iron ore from the earth. Recycling one car saves more than 1100 kg of raw iron ore and significantly reduces the amount of greenhouse gas emission worldwide.
- Eliminates Pest Habitats: Stationary junk vehicles create an undisturbed pest habitat for dangerous pests such as mice, rats and venomous spiders. The removal of the car leaves your yard clean, increases the curb value of your home and you will no longer be liable to heavy littering fines from the council.