Car Stolen... Seattle Area

[Turbone]

Legally, you cant junk a car here in WA without a title. But that doesnt mean its not possible.

If you know the wrecker, he might take it and immediately crush it.

But thats a worse case scenario. Hopefully the car will show up soon, in one piece.

[TRAVIS75]

With out trying to veer to far off subject, I work at a wrecking yard, and we crush about 3 times a year, that being said. Any respectable wrecking yard is supposed to have a title in hand when a vehicle is brought in. However there are ways around it, having the local, county or state look at the vehicle and declare it a junk vehicle (junk vehicle report) is sufficient to have a vehicle in your impound or wrecking yard to be crushed. The upside to this is, unless the officer is in a hurry, or just plain disreguarding standard procedure, it is required that they run the vin to make sure it hasn't been reported stolen.

 

When we get junk vehicle reports, or any vehicle for that matter, into our yards, we go through a procedure online to make sure that everything is legit, every vehicle that passes through out gate with in hours has to have an inventory number on it, with that number if the state patrol shows up, we can show documentation on who or where we got it from, how much we paid, whether it is set to be crushed, or used for parts, this is SUPPOSED to be how every yard in Washington State operates, but there are always those fly-by-night ones that pop up every time scrap metal prices go up, they set up a crusher at some sight, and crush as they come in, then pack up and move.

 

Best of luck to you.

[Scott in Bellingham]

Legally, you cant junk a car here in WA without a title. But that doesnt mean its not possible.

If you know the wrecker, he might take it and immediately crush it.

But thats a worse case scenario. Hopefully the car will show up soon, in one piece.

 

the local yards here will take less then 1/2 a car body , so if its cut up they will take the parts, probably not in one load tho

[TRAVIS75]

Not saying it can't be done, there are definately places that will risk it, the only way we take something like that is if its got a junk vehicle report. Alot of places have crushers on site, and can crush as soon as its brought in, whether they process it or not.

 

Back to the task at hand though, I doubt that anyone is going to try and sell it for scrap, keep the faith, and cross our fingers, it will show up.

[kevinhoffert]

any word yet? im from the wenatchee area