Two ways out of a car you are finished with, and they do not pay the same. We work out what each one returns, tell you which route your car actually suits, and take the LTA side off your hands once you have decided.
Renewal is the third way out and we handle it here too. You pay the Prevailing Quota Premium, the PQP, which is the three-month moving average of COE prices in your car’s category and can swing from one month to the next. Cat A is a non-electric car up to 1,600cc and up to 97kW, or a fully electric car up to 110kW. Cat B is everything above those. Renew for 10 years at the full PQP and you can renew again later. Renew for 5 years at half PQP and the car has to be deregistered at the end of it. It is the route that suits a car still in sound mechanical shape and worth holding on to, whether that is for practical reasons or sentimental ones.
Nothing goes through until the car passes an LTA inspection, so we run the pre-inspection check first and carry out whatever work it needs to get through. We will also tell you when the PQP looks like a poor month to commit. A renewal booked through us comes with one servicing and the 21-point safety check on us, redeemable within 12 months of the renewal date, one per renewal. If you want both paths costed side by side before you pick, renewal versus scrapping runs the numbers on each.
Three starting points, and the first move is different in each. Tell us which one is yours.
Send the plate, the expiry date and roughly how far you drive in a year. What comes back is what each route pays and what each one costs you, so the call gets made on numbers, not on a hunch about the market.
Get your figures → 02Then it narrows to export or scrap, and that turns on whether a buyer overseas wants your make and model at all. We check the demand before quoting, which is the step that stops anyone talking you into the wrong route.
Ask which route pays → 03Not running does not stop any of it. Tell us where the car is sitting, and getting it onto a truck is our end of the job rather than something you have to solve first. The rebates land at the same figure either way.
Arrange collection →People ring up asking what the car is worth and expect one figure back. There are four, and they stack. The first is the PARF rebate, a percentage of the Additional Registration Fee paid when the car was first registered that falls with the car’s age at deregistration, and it only ever reaches you if the car goes before its tenth year. The second is the COE rebate, the slice of the certificate still unused, prorated to the day.
The third depends on where the car ends up. Send it to a yard and you get paid separately for the metal and for whatever parts can be pulled off and resold. Send it overseas and there is a sale price instead, set by what a buyer in a right-hand drive market will pay for that make, model, spec and year.
Add the wrong two together and the answer is wrong. So the car gets looked at before anything is quoted, and all three go on the table, not only the one that suits us. Reading what scrapping a car in Singapore actually pays alongside your own figures is time well spent.
The lifting sits with us. The decision does not, and nothing moves until you have made it.
A WhatsApp message with the plate and a couple of details off the log card is enough to open the file. Everything after that runs off the car’s registration record.
Mechanical check, underbody, electrical and interior. What is sound gets written down, what is worn gets written down, and so does anything sitting on the fence.
Rebates, scrap value or export price, and the renewal cost too if that is still in play. It reaches you on WhatsApp with a recommendation attached, within 4 hours during workshop hours.
No commission rides on which way you go, so there is nothing here pushing you. Take a day over it if you want one.
Free islandwide collection, from wherever it is parked, on a day that suits you. It does not need to be driveable to be picked up.
The forms go in from our side, whichever route you picked. The money settles at the point in the process where it is meant to.
Most of what goes wrong at this end of a car’s life is somebody guessing at one of these four and finding out afterwards.
The PARF rebate disappears the day the car turns ten from first registration. The PARF rebate is the one that steps: it drops a band at each year mark, so the same car deregistered a fortnight either side of a birthday can be worth noticeably different money. The COE rebate does not step, being the quota premium paid multiplied by the unused months out of a hundred and twenty. We check the dates before anything else, because the dates are the part nobody can argue with.
Export only works if there is a buyer at the other end, and right-hand drive markets are particular about make, model, spec and year. That demand gets checked before a route is recommended, not after the car has already been collected, and if it is not there we say so.
Scrap value sits apart from the rebates and comes from the yard, for the metal and for the parts that can still be pulled and resold. Weight counts, and so does how much of the car is recoverable, so a luxury car with good salvageable parts fetches more than a picked-over runabout of the same age.
LTA deregistration, the export handover papers, the shipping documentation, quarantine certification where the destination asks for it. All of it sits on our side of the table. If the car is still financed, dealing with your finance company is part of the same job.
The quote reaches you split out rather than rolled into one headline number: rebate, scrap value or sale price, and any deduction, each on its own line. Nothing is held back to be produced at handover.
Both routes deregister the car and both pay you the same rebates. What separates them is who takes the car afterwards, and what that party is willing to pay for it.
Not sure which side yours falls on? Send the plate and the export demand gets checked before anyone quotes you anything. What you actually get back when you export walks through the same comparison in more detail.
Driving a car straight into a scrapyard works, and plenty of people do exactly that. What you give up is knowing the number before the keys leave your hand. The familiar version runs: a figure over the phone, a smaller one at handover, and a deduction nobody mentioned until the car was already on the ramp. You also fill in your own LTA forms and sort your own transport.
Here the PARF and COE figures are on the table before you commit to anything, and they stay the figures. Nothing appears at the end that was not on the sheet at the start. You fill in no forms and you arrange no tow.
There is no fee from us for the evaluation or for running the paperwork, and no commission attached to either route, so nothing at this end is quietly steering you. A fair slice of what sits in our bays is cars past ten, twelve and fifteen years, which makes this familiar ground, not a sideline.
The car comes into the bay for that, and what it is worth on each route is worked out while it is there. Whatever you settle on afterwards, the LTA side of it is run from this workshop, start to finish.
It turns on whether anyone overseas wants your car. Both routes pay the same rebates, so the difference is what sits on top of them: a scrap value from the yard, or a sale price from a buyer abroad. Where the make, model and spec are wanted in a right-hand drive market, export usually comes out ahead. Where there is no demand for it, the sale price does not exist at all and scrap is the better answer. We work out which one you are holding before quoting either.
Your carplate, the log card access code and the current mileage, sent over on WhatsApp. That is enough for us to pull the official figures and come back with what each route pays. The LTA forms themselves are ours to fill in. If the car is still under finance, we will also need to know who the loan sits with.
LTA deregistration runs 3 to 7 working days once the car is with us and the paperwork has been filed. The rebate is paid into your bank within another 5 to 7 working days after that, so around two weeks from handover to money on the scrap route.
2 to 4 weeks. How long it actually runs comes down to the buyer and to the shipping, and neither of those sits inside the workshop, so it stays a window rather than a fixed date.
Yes. A car does not have to run to be deregistered, and it does not have to reach us on its own wheels either. Give us the postal code where it is parked and collection is arranged from there, free, anywhere in Singapore. Flat battery, dead engine, or a car that has not moved in a year: none of that changes the rebates, which are worked out from the registration record rather than from the state of the car.
Most cars with 3 or more years of COE left and in decent condition can go to a right-hand drive market. Accident history, heavy modification or an unusual specification can leave a car with no overseas buyer at all. Some vehicles cannot legally be exported either, certain COE-renewed cars among them. Export-ability gets assessed first, and if it will not sell we recommend scrap instead, where the LTA rebates still come to you.
PARF stands for Preferential Additional Registration Fee. The rebate is a percentage of the ARF you paid when the car was first registered, returned to you if the car is deregistered before it turns ten years old. On the older schedule it runs from 75% for a car not more than five years old down to 50% in the tenth year. Cars registered with COEs obtained from the second February 2026 bidding exercise onwards sit on a much lower schedule, from 30% down to 5%, and the later schedules are capped. It is often the largest single payout of the lot. Once the car passes ten years from first registration it is gone, and only the COE rebate and the scrap value are left on the table.
It is the portion of the certificate you have not used, worked out as the quota premium paid multiplied by the unused months out of a hundred and twenty, counted in whole months plus days. There is no fee taken out of it, though LTA collects any road tax arrears and outstanding payments at deregistration. The part people miss is that it is the PARF rebate, not this one, that steps at each year mark. Deregistering either side of one of those steps moves the figure noticeably, which is why timing is worth a conversation before you commit.
Yes, though the loan has to be settled first. Normally the proceeds go towards clearing the outstanding balance and whatever is left over comes to you. If the balance is higher than the rebate, you top up the difference. We coordinate with your finance company on your behalf so you are not stuck running between two parties.
Because you can check it without us. Every figure comes from LTA’s published formulas and your car’s official registration details, and OneMotoring will confirm it in about five minutes. Once the car has been deregistered, the rebate letter LTA issues is shared with you, so the amount they actually paid is on paper in your hands.
We do. Clearing the LTA inspection is the first hurdle, and putting the car right for it is on us rather than on you. A renewal typically takes 1 to 2 weeks including the inspection and the paperwork. After that we keep the car serviced for however long you have extended it by, which is the part most workshops are not set up for: rubber seals harden, connectors corrode, and original-spec parts sometimes have to be sourced from overseas.
Full general servicing at recommended intervals. Plain-English report every visit.
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What the yard pays, what LTA pays, and which of the two is the bigger half.
The rebate, the buyer’s price, and where the two meet on an export deal.
Both sets of numbers run side by side, on the same car.
What changed on the PARF side, and which cars the change actually reaches.
How the PQP is arrived at, and what renewing for 5 or 10 years really commits you to.