The car scrappage scheme from Alex Lawrie Skoda
What’s the idea?
The government has recently brought in a car scrappage scheme, which offers drivers a cash incentive to scrap their old cars and replace them with shiny new ones.
Your car will be eligible as long as you meet the following criteria:
- The vehicle must have been first registered in the UK on or before 31 August 1999.
- The claimant keeper must have been registered keeper for at least 12 months before new vehicle order date.
- The claimant must have a UK address on the registration certificate (V5C)
- There must be no outstanding finance on the vehicle.
- The vehicle must have a valid MOT.
Is your car old enough?
To save you digging out your registration documents, this guide is a quick way to see if your car is old enough to qualify for the scrappage scheme.
Remember, it has to be ten years old or more.
For starters, if you have a “new style” number plate, your car will be too young, as these plates were introduced late in 2001. You can easily tell a new style plate – they start with two letters, rather than a letter followed by a number.
Otherwise, if your car was registered before 31st August 1999 your car is old enough. You can tell the age from the letter at the beginning of the plate (prefix). The last prefix letter which qualifies is ‘T’.
If your car qualifies, find out how to get your extra £1,500 ‘happy scrapping’ discount, on top of the £1,000 Government incentive, when you scrap with Škoda.
If you replace it with a shiny new Škoda you will get a whopping £2,500 off a brand new car. This saving includes £1,000 from the Government incentive and a whopping £1,500 happy scrapping discount from Škoda. There are even a few models with up to £2,630 off.
Why? Because we reckon the car scrappage scheme is a great idea. It’ll help boost the economy (hurrah!) and get greener, safer, more economical cars on the roads (hurrah!).
Why scrap with Škoda?
Well, for one thing, we’re offering a total ‘happy scrapping’ discount of at least £2,500. This saving includes £1,000 from the Government incentive and a whopping £1,500 happy scrapping discount from Škoda.
There are lots of good reasons to scrap your old car and replace it with a Škoda under the UK car scrappage scheme.
To start with, whichever model you choose, you can be sure you won’t regret it. 98% of our drivers would recommend us to a friend.
We were also voted the top manufacturer in the 2009 Auto Express/Daily Telegraph Driver Power satisfaction survey in which over 20,000 car owners took part.
As for individual models, only the premium Jaguar XF could beat our own previous generation Superb (second place) and new Octavia (third). No shame in that, then. Our other cars have won boots full of awards, too.
