What Will Happen to Your Clunker?

If you take advantage of the Cash for Clunkers program (formally known as the Car Allowance Rebate System, or CARS), you may have an image of your old car being crushed into a neat cube of glass, metal and rubber and stacked in an endless landfill of useless, low-mileage vehicles.

The Automotive Recyclers Association wants you to know that this perception could not be further from the truth. The CARS legislation includes a set of rules for processing the turned-in clunkers under the highest environmental standards, which means most of the material gets recycled.

Most importantly, recycled parts will be removed, processed and sold to consumers and automobile repair businesses to keep older vehicles operable. Recycled parts reduce repair costs and can lower insurance premiums by keeping cars safe and running longer.

What can’t be recycled will be melted down for scrap and reused. The United States Council for Automotive Research estimates that in 2007 and 2008, 95% of vehicles were recycled at the end of their lives, and 84% of the materials (by weight) in those cars were recycled.

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Comments

So let me get this straight. By turning in a clunker I'll be putting more parts for those clunkers on the market, allowing the remaining clunkers to stay on the road longer, producing more emissions, driving up the cost of gas, and endangering both their passengers and others on the road?
Um, is there really a net gain then?

Well a lot of parts from different model years can fit on cars with similar engine/transmission designs. Perfect example that I know of are the Camaros 2.8/3.1/3.4 V6s are all virtually the same designs but have different internal designs.

the gain is it will get more off the road quicker, they would do the same to those clunkers when they were going to the junkyard in the future so the parts would wind up in clunkers even farther in the future.

half the reason for this was to spur new car sales

You donot need actual vouchers or coupons to partipate in this program. All dealers are required and government will
reimburse the fees for the clunkers

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Not all of the parts from the "clunker" can be recycled. Under the cash for clunkers law, the engine, transmission and drive train cannot be re-sold.

First of all, we have laws which should prevent a clunker from being on the road. Government should enfore them.
Second, someone will reap huge profits from this, question is, "who". Surely not John Q. Taxpayer.
Third, this is just another shot in the dark make by a small number of people who do not know what they are doing. Remember, they are just politians who think they know best how to utilize your money.

It sounds to me like this program is designed more towards helping the "struggling" auto makers (some of which are now owned by the government) to sell cars and increase profits and therefore "stuff the pockets" of the major stockholders who are also government officials. America is headed more towards a socialist government every day.