Coquitlam · Port Coquitlam · Port Moody
Fast, professional scrap car removal across Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam and Port Moody. Free towing, cash paid on pickup, and real service from Jay's Junk Car Towing.
Because Jay answers his own phone and then actually shows up. That sounds like a low bar until you have spent a week waiting on someone who promised a truck at nine and never called back.
From your first phone call until your vehicle is loaded, you'll deal with people who know your vehicle and your pickup details. There's no repeating yourself to different departments or wondering if the driver has the right information.
The number on the phone is the cash in your hand. No towing deducted at the curb, no story about the price of scrap changing overnight.
Steep Burke Mountain driveways, tight Maillardville lanes, underground parkades with low clearance. Jay has already figured out how to get a dead car out of yours.
Plates removed, transfer signed, fluids handled by a licensed recycler. You are not left wondering if the car is still legally yours.
It takes one phone call and about an hour of your day. Here is every step, in order, so there are no surprises when the truck pulls up.
Call Jay at 604-889-4470 and describe the vehicle: year, make, model, whether it runs.
You get a firm cash number on that call. No inspection games, no revised price later.
Pick a time. Same day and next day are normal, including evenings and weekends.
Jay shows up with the flat deck, at your home, work, dealership or repair shop.
Bring ID and the registration. Plates come off, the transfer is signed, done in minutes.
Cash in your hand before the vehicle is loaded. Nothing deducted for towing.
Winched onto the deck, strapped down, driveway swept of anything that fell out.
Delivered to a licensed recycler and processed properly.
These six show up on the deck more than anything else, and each one usually ends the same way. Not because they were bad vehicles — because of what they cost to keep once they hit a certain age.
Civics around Coquitlam get driven hard and kept a long time. By the time Jay sees one it usually has 300,000 km or more, rust starting at the rear quarters, and a repair list — clutch, rad, suspension — worth more than the car. Nothing wrong with the car. It just finished its job.
The Santa Fes Jay picks up almost always come down to the engine. Owners hear it start to labour on the hills, then it lets go. Once a good used engine can't be found locally, the math stops working on a vehicle that age.
Older family SUVs like the Highlander get recycled after one big repair too many. They usually still drive fine — but a transmission or a head gasket on a 15-year-old SUV costs more than the SUV is worth, and the family has already bought the replacement.
Foresters get used the way they were meant to be used — mountains, gravel, ski hills. What ends them here is age and rust in the rear frame and strut towers. Once a shop flags it as a safety concern, most owners decide not to put money into the body.
Accords are commuter cars here, running the Lougheed and the Mary Hill Bypass for years. They come to Jay with high kilometres, a tired automatic and body damage that isn't worth fixing on a car with that many years on it.
The Edge almost always leaves for one reason: the transmission, or another major driveline repair quoted in the thousands. Owners get the estimate, look at the value of the vehicle, and call for recycling instead.
Real customer story — Mary Hill, Port Coquitlam
Many Hyundai Santa Fe owners end up facing a difficult decision when the engine fails. Jay recently picked up a Hyundai Santa Fe in the Mary Hill neighbourhood of Port Coquitlam after the engine finally gave out. The owner said the SUV had been struggling to climb the hills around Mary Hill before the engine completely failed. With only about 170,000 km, they looked into replacing the engine, but there wasn't a good used engine available and a new engine simply cost more than they wanted to spend.
The family lived and worked in the Coquitlam area, and the SUV had spent its entire life driving around Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam. Once they decided recycling was the better option, they called Jay's Junk Car Towing. Jay picked it up the next day before the kids had to get to soccer practice, and within about an hour the vehicle was on its way to one of our recycling partners.
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Real customer story — Coquitlam
Some vehicles become part of the family. Jay recently picked up an older Honda Civic in Coquitlam that had helped one young driver get through high school and then make the daily trips to Douglas College's David Lam Campus. Over the years it picked up a few dents, a few scratches, and eventually more than 350,000 kilometres on the odometer. It had done its job, but with several expensive repairs starting to add up, it no longer made financial sense to keep it on the road.
The family had already found a replacement vehicle, so they called Jay's Junk Car Towing. Jay met them at their local dealership, removed the licence plates, loaded the Civic onto the truck, and it was on its way to be responsibly recycled. Sometimes the hardest vehicles to let go aren't the most valuable ones, they're the ones that have been part of your family's story.
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Jay covers all of Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam, and both cities are handled on the same daily route. A car sitting behind a townhouse near Coquitlam Centre and a truck parked on a Mary Hill side street can easily be the same afternoon.
Most weeks that means pickups around Town Centre Park and Lafarge Lake, up the newer streets on Burke Mountain and Westwood Plateau, through Austin Heights and Maillardville, and in the older established parts of Ranch Park and near Mundy Park. Across the river in Port Coquitlam, Riverwood, Citadel and Mary Hill come up constantly — usually family SUVs and commuter cars that have finally stopped earning their keep.
Across in Port Moody it is Heritage Mountain driveways, parkades around Newport Village and Brewery Row, and the older Moody Centre streets near Rocky Point. Full details on the Port Coquitlam and Port Moody pages.
Need help replacing your registration or changing your insurance? Use the official ICBC Autoplan Broker Locator to find the nearest broker in Coquitlam.
It goes straight to a licensed recycler, not a field somewhere. Roughly 80% of a vehicle gets reused or recycled, and the parts that can't be are the ones that have to be handled carefully.
Your vehicle is delivered to a permitted auto recycling facility with a paper trail, so it can't come back to you later.
Gas, oil, coolant, brake fluid and refrigerant are drained and captured before anything is cut apart.
Good alternators, doors, seats and engines get pulled and go back onto other cars on the road here.
The remaining shell is crushed and the steel and aluminium go back into new manufacturing.
Most of the vehicles Jay picks up here are family cars and commuter cars, not project cars. Two kids, a hockey bag, a drive over the Port Mann every morning. That kind of use wears a vehicle out in a specific way, and it shows up in the calls.
Up on Burke Mountain the driveways are steep and the second vehicle often sits unused until it will not start at all. In Mary Hill the houses are older and the cars tend to be older too — commuter sedans with 300,000 km that finally failed an inspection. Around Coquitlam Centre and Town Centre Park it is usually townhouse and apartment parking, where a dead car takes up a stall someone else needs.
Port Moody is a bit of both: family SUVs on Heritage Mountain, and small cars parked near Rocky Point that only ever did short trips and rusted out before the engine gave up. Jay has removed vehicles from all of it, so the awkward part — the steep driveway, the tight lane, the low parkade — is already a solved problem.
Yes. Port Coquitlam is part of Jay's daily route, including Mary Hill, Riverwood and Citadel. Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam are served together, so pickup times are usually the same day or the next day.
Yes. Port Moody is covered on the same daily route, including Heritage Mountain, Newport Village, Moody Centre and the streets around Rocky Point and Brewery Row.
Yes, and it happens often. Jay regularly meets people at a repair shop, a dealership or their workplace instead of at home.
Nothing. You get paid. Jay quotes a cash amount over the phone based on the year, make, model and condition of the vehicle, and that amount is what you are handed at pickup.
No. Towing is free on every scrap vehicle in Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam. There are no fuel charges, no winching fees and nothing deducted from your quote after the truck arrives.
Most vehicles are picked up the same day or the next day. If you need a specific window, such as before school drop-off or after work, tell Jay when you call and he will book that time.
Photo ID and proof you own the vehicle, normally the vehicle registration. If the registration is lost, call anyway. Most situations can still be handled, and an Autoplan broker can reprint a registration.
A blown engine is one of the most common reasons people call. It does not lower the process to anything complicated. The vehicle is bought for its recyclable value, so the engine does not need to run.
Yes. Jay runs a flat deck with a winch, so vehicles that will not start, will not steer or will not move are pulled straight onto the deck. Flat tires and seized brakes are normal.
Someone with ID and ownership paperwork needs to be there to sign and take payment. It does not have to be at your home; Jay regularly meets people at work, at a dealership or at a repair shop.
It goes to a licensed recycler. Fluids are drained and disposed of safely, reusable parts are salvaged, and the shell is processed for scrap metal.
Cars, SUVs, minivans and light trucks of any year, running or not. Older Civics, Accords, Santa Fes, Highlanders, Foresters and Edges are picked up around Coquitlam almost every week.
Not sure what paperwork you have? What Documents Do You Need To Scrap A Car In BC?
Tell Jay the year, make, model and whether it runs. You will have a cash number in a couple of minutes and a pickup time today or tomorrow.