I have a 96 toyota windom... The starter went out...so we need to junk it. Does anyone know where to go to get the most money out of it? We need something for it to put towards a new car... We just had a baby so have pretty much NO extra money right now. Things are VERY difficult with no car... My husband is getting rides to work and if I have an appointment I have to beg a friend for a ride. NOT cool. Sorry for rambling... Any tips? 

yes hold on a sec and I'll post the info. I JUST did this to my car on thursday, and I got almost $500 back including my weight tax, partial road tax and partial GOJ (JCI), etc. I actually found these instructions off of Okinawa Hai, and I modified them just a tiny bit. They actually had you doing an extra trip that wasn't necessary. 

The below (by the numbers) can take approximately 2 to 3 hours of your time, depending on how fast you move. However, so as long as I’m on Okinawa, I’ll never turn my “junk” vehicle over to Typhoon Motors because you will receive nothing by them recycling your vehicle for you. My vehicle, a Toyota Surf (bad engine) gave me a return of $800.00 by doing these steps myself. First: • Drive/Tow the vehicle to the recycling center. Here are the directions: • Go towards Naha (south) on route 58. Make a right turn as if going into Camp Kinser’s gate 4 (Esso station on right). • Go past the first set of traffic lights to the bottom of the hill. On the right hand side you will see a yellow/tan warehouse. In between the two warehouses is the entrance. • Once you go in, about 75 meters up, you will see a huge weighing scale on the left. Drive your vehicle onto the weighing scale. • There will be a beeping sound once your vehicle has been weighed. Once you are done, you will be directed to another garage. • Once you get your vehicle to the garage site, there is where you will be turning over your vehicle. At that point, you will be given your license plates (2) and your road tax sticker off of the windshield. Remember, at this point, you will no longer have the vehicle, so make sure all personal items are out. • Take the plates, road tax sticker, paperwork from Foster Veh. Registration and all of your paperwork from your vehicle back to where you got the vehicle weighed. Go inside the bldg thru the sliding doors. • Once inside, the civilian will call you for your signature and address on a sheet of paper. They will then pay you (in Yen) depending on the weight of your vehicle. This might take about 15-20 min. • Once you are paid, they are done with you. Second: • Take all of your paperwork that you will have in hand (to include paperwork from recycling cntr, license plates and road tax sticker) and go back to the vehicle registration office at Camp Foster. Ask the people behind the front counter for the paperwork to recycle/junk your car. They will then direct you to a counter on the right side of the bldg (same office space). There they will stamp some of your paperwork and you must pay a 1,000 Yen fee to have your vehicle deregistered (on base). They only accept Yen. Third: • Once again, take all items (plates, stickers, paperwork etc..) to the Land Transportation Office (LTO) which you passed when you went to the recycling center. Here are the directions: • Make the same right turn as if going to the recycling center (Esso station), but this time, you will make a right turn at the first stop light. You will see a sign above the street light that reads “Land Transportation Office”. • Follow the road (downward) for about 200 meters until you come to BIG (there are a few smaller ones) open parking lot almost at the end of the road. Turn left into that lot. • You will know that you are in the correct parking lot because you will see a garage type bldg with numbered stalls directly in front of you. • To the left of all that, you will see a bldg marked with LTO. Go inside. • Once inside, ask sometime to direct you to Counter D. There you will turn in your license plates. They will keep the license plates and stamp your paperwork. You will then be directed to report to the Military/SOFA Status Counter, # 2. • At Counter # 2, you will hand them all of your paperwork (they’ll return what they don’t need back to you). They too will stamp some of your paperwork. This is the counter where you will actually receive the original “de-registration” paperwork that clears your name off of that title. It’s very important to keep this until you actually check out to leave Okinawa. • Once you are done with counter 2, you will be directed to report to a separate bldg (behind the bldg your in) and you will report to the “Road Tax Refund Center”. • Here they will either refund you a portion of your road tax (in Yen) proportional to the last time you paid road tax, or in my case, I had to pay one month’s road tax because my vehicle was coming up on needing the road tax in May. *Side note* The bank that refunds the road tax is only open from 0900-1500, so you will have to make two trips if they are closed. Fourth: • Take whatever remaining paperwork that you might have to your insurance company (AIU, ACE, etc.). Then they will cancel your insurance policy for that vehicle (JCI, American Insurance) again proportional to when you last paid for these and refund you a portion back. Last and final note: • You might want to check with vehicle registration at Foster about a week or so later and have them check to see if all has cleared for you on that vehicle. This may sound like a little bit of inconvenience and some driving, but it was worth it for a vehicle that I would not be able to sell. 

I personally after junking a vehicle feel like it's easier to just call the service that does it for you. You pay a small fee, but it's worth it because you wont spend most of your day going back and forth. We got like 180$ or something like that back for our van, I can't remember. 

which would you prefer, $180 or $500?? 

I don't mind spending a day to do it... no reason to pay someone to do what I can do... that's the way I see it. 

Thank you so much for the info Mika Chan 

You're welcome and good luck! It only took me about 2 hours to do all of that, and that was mainly because of driving time or waiting at Foster Vehicle Registration. 

Would we be able to junk a car on a Saturday or are they only open during the week? And is the recycling center/junking place actually on Kinser or just by it? Sorry that part of the directions confused me a little. We need to junk our van and I'm going to leave it up to the hubby whether he wants to do it or have someone else do it. 

I got $26 for junking my car. :( I bought Ice Cream on the way home. 

I got $26 for junking my car. :( I bought Ice Cream on the way home. Thanks for the giggle. 

lol, it is true. 

got $26 for junking my car. :( I bought Ice Cream on the way home. lol 

$26??? How is that even possible when you could get at least $100 from the weight of your car alone? 

Nope. I got $26. The weight of my car worked out to almost nothing. The $26 was for what was left on the JCI 

I got $26 for junking my car. :( I bought Ice Cream on the way home. and u did not invide us out for some ice cream =( 

and u did not invide us out for some ice cream =( It was in my dark, dark, pre-OU days! 

I don't understand how that's even possible when they pay you per kg....what did your car weigh? (Not saying ur lying, I'm honestly trying to figure out how thats possible cuz I don't get it :-p) 

I don't understand how that's even possible when they pay you per kg....what did your car weigh? (Not saying ur lying, I'm honestly trying to figure out how thats possible cuz I don't get it :-p) page 1 Honestly I am no Japanese car junking expert. I gave them the keys, they gave me $26, I used said $26 to purchase a tasty, tasty waffle full of frozen goodness. Actually, The insurance agent said that I could have gotten an extra $50 for taking it to the place myself. But since it would've cost at least that much to tow it to kinser I passed. 

Well that explains it :-p You probably would've gotten a lot more than $50 extra 

Nope $50 extra. We did the math right there. It was a small(ish) car and the price of steel has fallen dramatically recently. It is not crazy like it used to be when china was buying it all for the Olympics. 

its not just the weight of your car that you get....plus you must of drove a tiny a$$ car if it didn't rate more than $75. Mine was aprox 1200kg and I got 18,000Y from it (Nissan Primera.) Then there's your road tax, JCI, insurance, and weight tax, depending on how much you have left on the car when you turn it in. 

SO does anyone know what hours the recycling place is open? thanks... 

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