Guides
Plain-English guides for buying salvage cars in Scotland and selling them on.
The essentials
Buying at Scottish salvage auctions →
Accounts, research, bidding, paying and collecting, step by step.
Cat N vs Cat S vs Cat A/B →
What the categories mean and which ones you can put back on the road.
LEZ and resale →
How Scotland's four Low Emission Zones affect who'll buy your car.
How to check a salvage car before you bid →
The free checks, what a paid check adds, Cat S/N, the V5C and insurance, in one routine.
Scottish yards
Every Copart and IAA salvage yard in Scotland.
Copart East Kilbride →
South Lanarkshire, about 10 miles south of Glasgow city centre
Copart Whitburn →
West Lothian, just off the M8 between Glasgow and Edinburgh
Copart Dunfermline (coming soon) →
Fife, just north of the Queensferry Crossing
IAA Glasgow (Torrance) →
East Dunbartonshire, north of Glasgow
IAA Carluke →
South Lanarkshire, between Glasgow and the M74 corridor
IAA Addiewell →
West Lothian, between Livingston and Shotts
IAA Dumfries →
Dumfries & Galloway, west of Dumfries on the A75/A76
BCA and Manheim mostly sell used and ex-fleet cars rather than insurance salvage. Use the calculator's BCA and Manheim options for their sales.
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