Baxenden Car Breakers

Baxenden Car Breakers: scrap car buying and used parts from an Accrington yard

Baxenden Car Breakers is a family-run business operating as a fully licensed end-of-life vehicle treatment facility from a scrapyard in Accrington. It combines two sides of the trade: buying scrap cars for recycling and selling used car parts recovered from those vehicles. The company states that it holds a car breakers licence, a full environmental standard permit for treating end-of-life vehicles, a waste carrier licence and a scrap metal dealer site licence, and that it holds accreditations from the Environment Agency, the VRA and Hyndburn.

Scrap car collection and payment

The scrap service is built around an online quote: the customer enters the vehicle registration and postcode, answers a few questions about the car and submits contact details, and the company follows up with an offer. The questionnaire covers whether the car starts, whether it drives or rolls, whether keys are available, whether it is accessible for a recovery truck, which parts are missing and whether the V5C/logbook is available.

Baxenden Car Breakers states that it offers free collection on all scrap car collections, that it tries to match or beat every offer found online, that it pays on the same day by bank transfer and that it sorts and issues all required paperwork. The company says it accepts vehicles in essentially any condition, including those with flat tyres or no tyres at all, and that it can collect even if the keys have been lost. With the proper documentation, it can collect from private property as well as public roads, and it can arrange collection while the customer is at work. Customers who prefer to bring the car themselves can drop it off at the yard.

Used car parts

On the parts side, the company states that it stocks over 45,000 used car parts in its eBay shop. Parts are removed from end-of-life vehicles, checked so that their condition is maintained and stored in one of its warehouses. The catalogue is described as constantly updated with new arrivals, and the company says it aims to keep used parts reasonably priced.

Coverage across the North West

Although the yard is in Accrington, the company states that its collection capabilities cover a large area. It names Lancashire, Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire as areas it serves for scrap car collection.

Reputation and public activity

The company presents itself as a leader in providing a quick and easy scrap car service and as one of the best breakers' yards in the North West, claims that appear in its own presentation and in customer reviews. At the time of writing this profile, the site displayed a rating of "Excellent" based on 117 Google reviews, with individual comments praising the friendliness of the service, the speed of collection and payment, and the condition of parts ordered online. The company also publishes videos about its scrapyard on YouTube, including vehicle dismantling, equipment upgrades and participation in a charity cricket match.