How does the car scrappage scheme work?

How does the car scrappage scheme work? Is it up to individual garages or are there a set of guidelines?

Nicola Kelly (Drogheda)

Nov 2015 Filed under: scrappage

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Expert answer

Hi Nicola,

There is no official, government-backed scrappage scheme at the moment, so all of the adverts you are seeing for scrappage are actually just special trade-in offers. In that sense, there are no specific guidelines - it's purely down to the offers from each individual brand and dealer.

Neil Briscoe - Complete Car Adviser
@neilmbriscoe