Automotive shredder residue (ASR) is a very heterogeneous waste, which could have a very high metal content on finest fractions ϕ <6mm produced by the shredding of end of live vehicles. The approval of Directive 2000/53/EC and its transposition to the European Union member states requires an analytical technique for in-situ checking of the content of some metals in ASR wastes. The objective of this study is the evaluation of total Pb content in the different fractions using a rapid measurement method to easily accomplish the current legislation. An experimental Energy Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence (EDXRF) spectrometer with tri-axial geometry was used to analyse the ASR in order to test the feasibility of this analytical technique. Likewise, a correction of the intensities by the incoherent scattering (Compton) radiation was made to compensate the matrix effects. The results show that values in the smaller fractions are bigger (11,600mgkg−1 in the fraction <125μm) than in the coarser fractions (4600 mgkg−1 in the fraction between 2 and 6mm) and that such type of instrumentation enables a fast measurement with a limit of detection of 1.1mgkg−1 for 1000s measurement).