The contributions of automobile spare-parts market activities to heavy metals burden and the forms in which some of these metals exist in the soil environment were assessed. Total values of 150.0 mgykg lead, 98.7 mgykg copper, 5.0 mgykg cadmium, 250.3 mgykg manganese, and 14.0 mgykg nickel were obtained on screening the soil in an automobile spare-parts market. Only lead, cadmium and copper were above threshold values and were consequently speciated. Upon speciating, 6.2% lead, 25.7% copper and 52.0% cadmium were potentially bioavailable.