In recent years, a large number of toxic and hazardous substances were discharged into environment because of the simple landfill and accumulation of vehivle dismantling waste. Therefore, it is very important to develop the recycling technology of vehivle dismantling waste for the harmless, stability, reduction and resource utilization of vehivle dismantling waste. In this paper, the compositions of vehicle dismantling waste from two different dismantling processes were investigated by manual sorting, infrared spectroscopy and X-ray fluorescence spectrometer, experimental results showed that the vehicle waste from manual dismantling contained more polyurethane, foamed plastic and rubber with low value and the size of waste is lager, the vehicle waste from mechanical dismantling contained more metal and brittle polymer and their size was smaller. The concentration of metal in two kinds of wastes are less than 1%, the total concentration of carbon and hydrogen reach about 70%, so vehicle dismantling waste was suital for recovering ernergy, but the pollution of chlrone from polyvinyl chloride need to be prevented.