Cost Of Getting A Car Trailered To The Garage

[NOsMAN 10 1 Cars]

The car is my 205 CTi which has just wasted another MOT, because the autobox has packed up straight after my last MOT. I have been down south and bought a replacement from Miles but never had the chance to get it fitted yet, which Im hoping to do now.

Need to find a local recovery service that will take my car to a pug specialist about 15miles away. Whats sort of costs am i looking at? hoping it will cost no more than £50, am i being realistic ? If not is it illegal for me to tow it there myself on a fixed towing bar going down a dual carriageway ? Bear in mind the car is currently out of MOT and has no insurance.

 

[Tom Fenton 1,542]

I would ask the place it is going to for the work to collect it. Seeing as they are going to be earning out of the job they may well do it for free or not very much. Otherwise ask them for a recommendation of somebody local to move it, chances are any garage will know of someone

[chipstick 382 1 Cars]

Do you have roadside assistance of any sort?

[AlexRS2782 136 1 Cars]

It may sound weird but it may pay to ask one of your local scrap car collection people if they'd move the car for you.

 

I used a local one to me last year when i needed to move my Saxo VTS about 5 miles from my house to a workshop, when it was out of MOT, and the guy was happy to do it for £10 cash which i didn't think was too bad tbh.

[johnnyboy666 195 1 Cars]

dont think towing it with a bar would be a good choice, plod are bound to have you over for that on the no insurance front. and assuming its sorned you might get fined for having it on the road

[Jemehan 3 1 Cars]

Try shiply.com got my car delivered from Scotland to the south east. Where are you based? I do have a friend with a truck you see, but heonly deals with fairly local jobs...

[NOsMAN 10 1 Cars]

Do you have roadside assistance of any sort?

I do but they will not take an uninsured car (RAC)

 

dont think towing it with a bar would be a good choice, plod are bound to have you over for that on the no insurance front. and assuming its sorned you might get fined for having it on the road

Thats what i fear.

 

It may sound weird but it may pay to ask one of your local scrap car collection people if they'd move the car for you.

 

I used a local one to me last year when i needed to move my Saxo VTS about 5 miles from my house to a workshop, when it was out of MOT, and the guy was happy to do it for £10 cash which i didn't think was too bad tbh.

dont know any

 

I would ask the place it is going to for the work to collect it. Seeing as they are going to be earning out of the job they may well do it for free or not very much. Otherwise ask them for a recommendation of somebody local to move it, chances are any garage will know of someone

I will ask them, but I dont think they know anyone cos i've asked them before

Edited January 6, 2013 by NOsMAN

[Miles 331 1 Cars]

You would think they should, I know a good 4 people dotted around to do this

[AlexRS2782 136 1 Cars]

I didn't know any of the scrap / unwanted car collecting companies either tbh. I called one that advertises in my local paper, explained that i didn't have a car to scrap but needed a car moved and he agreed so long as i covered towards his petrol to do it, which as it was fairly local was only a tenner

 

Other than that the other suggestion would be to have a search of the Yellow Pages / Thomson Local or similar online search under car recovery. Most will normally charge a 1 off fee to cover the job (in my experience anywhere from £20 to £50) and then charge anywhere from £1 to £2 per mile travelled.

[omega 82]

where in the east midlands are you?

got a engine crane if you want to borrow it or if you want to do it yourself and need a hand just shout.

[NOsMAN 10 1 Cars]

im in the same place as you omega (nottingham, arnold) only thing is i havent got a clue on how to change an auto box

Just got a quote from somebody to hire a tow truck which is £95(per day) for 250miles and 9p for any additional miles, tempted to take up the offer and move to car further south

[omega 82]

if you have a car with a towbar i canget you a towing dolly for beer

[cheesegrater 43 1 Cars]

Wheni got a car moved I went on ebay and searched for car transporters Theres a surprising amount of people who do it and are probably local to you too. Costs are decent and even cheaper if they've had to drop something off and coming back with an empty load.

[NOsMAN 10 1 Cars]

if you have a car with a towbar i canget you a towing dolly for beer

Afraid i dont have a tow bar , thanks for the offer anyway

[amusingadam 6 1 Cars]

I didn't know any of the scrap / unwanted car collecting companies either tbh. I called one that advertises in my local paper, explained that i didn't have a car to scrap but needed a car moved and he agreed so long as i covered towards his petrol to do it, which as it was fairly local was only a tenner

 

Other than that the other suggestion would be to have a search of the Yellow Pages / Thomson Local or similar online search under car recovery. Most will normally charge a 1 off fee to cover the job (in my experience anywhere from £20 to £50) and then charge anywhere from £1 to £2 per mile travelled.

This works well i sell cars for a living and we have all our cars delivered by a scrap man think he charges us £35 per car for 25 miles most of them would do it and there normaly the best as they lkie a bit of cash in hand no paper work = no tax