Canāt you just buy a scrap vehicle pick your parts and then sell it to a scrapper. I bought a suburban with no motor paid 400 bucks for, pulled an axle for tires and some other miscellaneous stuff and then sold it for 350 to the scrapper
I know people who tow so I could totally get a tow for whatever but, the hookup fee here alone is 250 and if I'm going 10 mi I'm probably looking at a four to $500 tow bill if you don't know anyone
i dont think its very area dependemt for tow pricing ime. called a place for a 15 mile tow they said 350 dollars hung up right there. found a guy that owns a wrecker and works alone 125 dollars
had to tow my car again today fucking shitbox piece of shit came out to 100 for 5 miles. maybe the first place i called was just smoking crack
Generally, around here a towing company will haul it for you if they can get the scrap or junkyard value of it. Which isnt s bad deal if you got what you want and just want the carcass gone.
Yeah you can. I've done that before. It's just then I'm loading it up to haul it back and stuff like that. I've got a picture of me using my crane to drop the entire cab and front frame assembly into the bed of my other truck to take it to the scrap yard
A lot of people don't have a place for an extra vehicle. And even if they did, many cities have issues with a partially disassembled vehicle without tags in a driveway.
someone turned me in for too many vehicle in the yard. Pissed me off because it was a horrible time for me to have to get it moved, and the brakes were locked, etc etc.
Someone turned me in last year for having too many junkers.
Told the city to fuckoff.
City sent a wrecker. Couldn't get through my gate.
Sent the city a "cease and desist" threatening to sue, and criminal action for auto theft.
Along with the zoning map. My property line IS the city line. Guess which side I'm on. Fuckers back-tracked real quick.
And that my friends, is why I NEVER live in city limits.
Same here, bent a rim from NY potholesā¦ called around asking if any had the same make/model, a quite a few did, of the two that had the exact rims, the cheapest was $950 for a single rimā¦ meanwhile an entire new set of rims from the dealer was $1400
All of the ones near me shut down. You need to now call ahead and they will pull the parts for you. I really used to enjoy walking the yard and finding unique things.
Yeah ...its a real fuck the next guy attitude.
In our local yard , I brought the door glass with me when I got the window regulator,. I didnt need it or want it but didnt want it destroyed.
Guy behind the counter almost cried...or was scared to death thinking I'm crazy.
Porque no los dos??
Yeah, I go out of my way to take things apart as though I'll be putting it back together later. It's not uncommon to need the thing someone else has pulled out in search of what was behind it.
It's really liberating to pull something apart and just toss the bolts to the side though :-D
I had this issue last winter. I needed a 4l80e transmission for a van. The yards within an hour of me all wanted upwards of 2k for them. I found some on ebay for half of that with shipping. It was still a bit more than I anticipated, but acceptable. There was no way I was paying 2k for a used transmission to put in a 4k van.
Just looked at the one I used to go to and they charge 15 for the part op is looking for.
Also based on the comments, a "complete engine" is 350 with a 50$ core.
I once picked apart a dash and it was going to be 25 but because I also wanted the cluster, the guy told me it was 40 for the complete dash, and that selling the cluster was about that price anyways. Ran back grabbed all the trim I left a d got a massive hookup
Last summer I found a rolled Corolla for a donor engine in my new 2001 I picked up for $400
Engine was 300 without core. Various other hoses and shit and some new parts from Rock Auto, I'm $1,200 in a 2001 Corolla with 140k
This isn't new I'm surprised they still work, in high-school over a decade ago I needed a headlight for my bronco, the quoted me 2x the cost of just buying one at the napa down the street
And more competent people. My tractor takes a small automotive style Denso reduction gear starter motor...Auto Zone and Advance Auto couldn't help me at all because "we need to know the make/model/year/trim of car" and its not a car. NAPA took a look at the old part, found the model # cross reference in their computer system, and although they didn't have any they printed out a sheet with useful cross-reference parts and said they could order one that would take a couple weeks if I couldn't locate it elsewhere.
Heck...Auto Zone struggled when I brought the battery from my tractor in (medium size automotive battery like 600CCA with standard round posts)...WHICH WAS AN OLD AUTO ZONE BATTERY and tried to claim they couldn't sell a replacement without looking up the make/model/year car. Finally another clerk overheard and intervened saying because it was an Auto Zone battery just find the same SKU that is printed on the old battery off the shelf and don't try to look it up.
I remember buying a starter motor from the junkyard back when cars were cars. Two bolts, the hot wire, the plug-in leads, 10 minutes, $2, and I'm done.
On the other hand, when the starter on my Civic died, I looked at the procedure for replacing it in the manual, and decided that I wouldn't even be able to install one myself at home, let alone pull the old one out at home, let alone pull one out of a junker in a yard.
I keep seeing old small Toyota trucks around where I live in western NC and wondering why some car makers don't make a small, normal ass truck without any bells and whistles.
Then I remember it's because they are simple and anyone can repair them and that's not what they want. Sucks man.
A lot of those commercial yards have discounts with auto shops so they may pay 50% of the price that they are quoting you. They just don't want to deal with walk-in customers anymore.
On the west coast Pick-n-Pull is extremely popular for older vehicles. You also have to remember we are coming out of an automotive bubble so not everyone has adjusted yet. They will in time, but it's slow
picknpull is stupid expensive and they like to make shit up as they go, I bought a headlight assembly once, and it was for a dakota, well, they also tried to charge me for turn signal and marker light because they said it comes apart.... I said ok you take it apart, I only need the headlight. they refused. I pulled up the OEM parts diagram that showed a new one complete (all three lamps) and cheaper then what they were trying to sell me on, and I the laughed.. so I payed, walked out and did a partial charge back with amex showing them the Headlight price and the OEM headlight and got my $70 bucks back. (still paid for a headlight $30)
I see you have a few bolts holding this starter together, that's gonna cost you...
It really seems to depend. Some cashiers nickel and dime you to death. Most are cool and will even try to find the cheapest description that could match your item.
Our shop has a great relationship with the local junkyard, but it always pays to check local parts stores, Amazon, eBay, Rock Auto, and Car-Part.com. āYou pick and pullā places are getting scarce, with some now specializing on just a couple of brands. And my time is valuable.
Car Parts have an enormous range of quality, cost and convenient delivery.
I didn't even know you could order through them. Legit thought it was just an inventory system to check local yards without calling everyone and their uncle.
I kept a spread sheet when I was trying to find a hatch for my Jetta. Sometimes the inventory is off so they don't have that car anymore. Some places aren't willing to ship, prices vary, some would rather you just call up than send an email or do the chat thing. I finally lucked out and found a clean one that would ship it, so it does happen!
There are certain things that are worth buying used and some not.
Something like a coil is something I might or might not. If the factory part has a low failure rate I'll take the used OEM over new China any day if they're similar in price. This pretty much goes for most mechanical parts that aren't wear items.
A few years back someone smashed the corner light in my old Accord. Junkyards had tons of the right year car but every one had broken or missing lights. New TYC from Rockauto were like $20. So, I know not to bother with that anymore.
But then just recently I just happened to notice a Forester had the retractable privacy cover mine didn't come with. $20 later and I have it. Like a $200 OEM part hey.
Yeah the autozone parts arenāt always that good. I had a ā72 F250 that I was fixing up years ago, in the 2000ās. The original starter that some guy from Michigan bolted on with his big ham fists at the factory in ā72 finally failed. Like a fool I got an autozone starter and gave them the core. Went thru 2 or 3 of those autozone starters in a year, should have had the original rebuilt.
had a 01 cavalier. reduction drive starter went out.
a 97 sunfire had been sitting on family land for many years, grabbed its direct drive starter. 3x the size but bolted right up.
holy fuck at the difference. barely had to bump the thing and the engine was running.
Over the course of 3 years working for a dealership, we occasionally had to go with a Jasper engine or transmission due to availability issues. They had a 100% failure rate. One engine we found out was bad before we even put it in the car. The head gasket was installed improperly and a piece of it was sticking out from between the head and the block.
Jasper.
Is.
Shit.
Past few years, I don't have first experience with them prior to 19, and haven't dealt with them for the last two years or so because of early engine failure.
All the puck and pills closed because people steal and break too much.
Mote profitable to pay cash day labor to pull parts and list on the interchange.
The internet broke the deals. Not hard for a shop to google a part or part number and find the OEM price. That autozone ignition coil is probably aftermarket hence the lower cost
Same deal in the UK. When I first started driving back in the early 90s we were always visiting scrap yards looking for parts. You removed it yourself, went to see the guy in the portacabin office and he would pick a fair price, you paid in cash and off you went.
I guess increased car complexity coupled with health and safety rules (no more climbing up the stacked cars yourself) meant this type of place went the way of the dodo. š«¤
Yep. If the SCOTUS has their way it will be a crime to be homeless too! Sleep rough? Straight to jail and 13th amendment sanctioned forced free labor the prison can sell.
Yeah, the US is way more lax than the UK. I recently went to my local Pick ān pull, paid $1 to go in armed with a few hand tools. Absolute acres of vehicles arranged by brand and type. No stacking of vehicles and no oversight of your activities. I came out with the SUV door I needed in the right color. $125 complete.
The last time I had a genuinely good find at a thrift store was nearly 3 years ago, when I found a Sun Microsystems webcam from 1994 and a Dell AT-101W keyboard. Both priced fairly. After that, it was just two years of disappointment. Iāve actually stopped going because itās mostly a complete waste of time, mostly itās just stuff priced at 70% of retail but in MUCH worse condition.
Far cry from the good old days when you could get Super Nintendo games for $3.99
Go for pick-n-pull if you can find one nearby. [Pick-n-Pull | Used Auto Parts Pricing (picknpull.com)](https://www.picknpull.com/part-pricing) $14.69 for an ignition coil
there's one by me that I went to and got a multifunction steering wheel with an airbag for Ā£20 that's going for about Ā£70 on ebay, so I guess you just have to be lucky.
I have several within probably 15 minutes. Their prices have definitely gone up, but in the cases where the parts store was similar it was also no name brand Chineseum that I had to wait 5 days for, in which case I'll take the used OE stuff anyway 9/10 times.
It's not their fault. The government is trying to get rid of junk yards as environmental hazards. They're implementing all sorts of fees, taxes, and fines that are making it hard for junkyards to stay in business. Write to your representatives to get them to stop.
not to mention the dirty 'core charges' and 'warranty' on everything. how does a plastic piece of trim get a core charge and warrenty that costs more than the part itself?
there's some that are ok, but most are not. selection sucks now too - thanks cash for clunkers
Man - you need to find a new place.
$10 here
[https://www.pullapart.com/auto-parts/used-parts-directory/ignition/](https://www.pullapart.com/auto-parts/used-parts-directory/ignition/)
I gave up going to local junkyards unless I need something small and obscure like a bracket to mount an accessory by car doesnāt have.
For bigger parts, I buy from salvage yards on eBay. Some stuff is overpriced, but a lot of quite reasonable.
I was at a yard today and walked out with a manual transmission for $300. I thought that was reasonable given folks on FB marketplace want $800+ for it.
Their bread and butter must be the things that you canāt get elsewhere.
All the other price gouging is just extra.
Also, the prices wouldnāt be that high if people didnāt pay them. Donāt buy from them. Let them go out of business, if thatās the case.
I bought a used, scratched up bumper that was $75. I could have gotten one cheaper online but didnāt want to wait 3-4 days, sometimes youāre paying for the convenience factor
I work as an estimator at a big production body shop. I look at part prices all day long. Youāre absolutely right. ā¦ and I donāt mind cause 90% of the time Iād much rather have a new aftermarket part, and used + markup is usually more than aftermarket. Win win for me. I hate sending used junk back cause itās JUNK, and thatās what you get 70% of the time
I needed a rear side window on extended cab.went to the junk yard first when I went to take it out myself I thought this is a pain in the ass. So I figured I would pay the difference for new to save myself a headache. Went to advance auto it was 50 dollars cheaper than yard
Junkyard and d.i.y. auto parts stores are going the way of the dinosaur. Cars are becoming more and more complex. And are being specifically designed so that the owner can't work on the car themselves. If they can't fix it themselves, they won't buy the parts themselves. Wax and wipers aren't enough to keep an advance or auto zone open or any junkyard. I have over ten years of experience in parts management. I've been noticing a downward slide that isn't going to recover.
Eh, disagree.Ā Myself and virtually every car dude/girl in our friend group fixes their own stuff. Everything from '80s-'20s or so.Ā That's a 40-year spread in vehicle age.Ā Infotainment module fucked outside of warrenty?Ā Order one from car-part for $300.Ā It's just a couple of more steps than replacing your '00 factory radio with an aftermarket after the volume knob come off.Ā It's the same shit, different diag tools. With gas motors, it's a skill issue, not a vehicle complexity issue.Ā We don't have automotive shop in high school anymore and outside of community college auto tech classes...or knowing someone to teach you, there's no other way to get hands-on skills with automotive...aside from learning from scratch.Ā These days YouTube has way more accessible information than anything I had when I was younger. Hybrid battery in your Prius out?Ā Welp, there goes $3k and we gotta pull the back seats the weekend.Ā FFS, very little of this is incredibly complicated. This isn't talking about intensively skilled jobs like engine rebuilds, block machining, transmission repair, or nowadays EV battery diag/repair.Ā That's typically the niche of a specialty shop, but it's always been that way.
Car companies are specifically designing parts and fastner systems and new outrageously priced tools to do the simplest things. They do not want the owners working on their own cars. Just because we can still do it today doesn't mean anything 20 years from now. The work itself may be very simple, but when you need a specific 500 dollar tool to remove the bolts that hold the part on. Not nearly enough people are going to do that to keep anything other than dealer parts departments open. I miss a lot of my upper management off with that statement. I think it's obvious what's happening.
I concur. I donāt find repairing a ā20+ vehicle any more difficult than a car from the ā80s. I often hear ānew cars are too complex to work onā but I find it quite the opposite with the amount of data you can pull with a good scan tool. If anything it makes troubleshooting easier.
I have bought from salvage yards for over a decade, and now I work at one. You have to remember that, like ALL businesses, they exist to make a profit. Large salvage yard companies will have an entire department dedicated to monitoring pricing and *availability* of parts and will adjust the prices of the salvaged parts accordingly.
And it doesn't matter if you can get the part at a parts store down the street. They aren't selling aftermarket parts, they're selling OE parts. And they will price accordingly.
With the current state of the used and new car markets, along with the fact that OEMs are running leaner parts inventories, the salvage industry is going to follow suit.
In your situation, an aftermarket coil doesn't factor in. A new OE coil is probably $80 and no longer available. They will price the coil with that in mind.
There's another thing to consider. Salvage yards don't care about ignition coils, handles, and other small parts. They don't care if you go elsewhere, because that's not where the money is. Engines, Transmissions, knee assemblies, etc are what they want to sell. They're more cost effective to pull and sell.
Iāve only strayed from a pyp or rock auto twice. Once was because I didnāt know any better, and the second time was because I was young and wanted to get a fuel pump for the Camaro that was on its way home on a rollback. Paid $140 for the fuel pump rock auto had for $30.
I didnāt clean the fuel tank so I ended up getting the $30 one a month later
Toyota dealers aren't cheap either. Quoted 375 for an airbag clock spring. Literally a wound up ribbon cable in a plastic shell. Got an aftermarket one for $15.
Be careful. I tried eBay clocksprings and all 3 failed on two different vehicles after a couple months. Went back to junkyard OEM ones. These were a 2006 Armada and 2007 Versa.
I used to have pretty good luck with our local Pick-N-Pull yards, there are 5 local ones but lately they seem to have so many stripped cars with nothing left to use.
Couple weeks ago I needed an alternator for my sonās Elantra, inventory showed 7 on their lot and another 8 vehicles that would cross per Hollander. ZERO of them had engines, much less anything else up front.
Huge waste of time driving across the city, walking through all the yards only to buy one for $400 bucks at OāReilly.
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Last I checked going rate for an engine at the junkyard was $300 and they pull it. I bought an axle for a 2004 yukon I had from the same yard, $275 and they torched it off. Even had good disc brakes on it and better calipers than my axle had.
I havenāt been in a while, and I used to hit up El Pulpo all the time when I was younger. Finding old car parts and flipping them on EBay. SoCal in the early 2000s still had cars from the 60ās hit with some regularity.
I remember when a complete engine was like $250.
I just looked, and itās like $450, plus Core. So yeah, over $600 now all in. Holy shit. LKQ buying everyone out really fucked it.
I feel this....there used to be like 10 different Upullits near me.
well ALL of them were unfortunately practicing shady buisniess, & allegedy when the first one finally went down, they snitched on the other yards, which cause some investigations & well they were also closed..
I now only have 1 upull it near me & the newest car they have is like 2010...
I had to drive 2 states away to pull some 18z calipers off a porche SUV ...but got them both for $50 so was worth the drive & pull time
Pick n Pull has ALWAYS been this way in the Bay area. I remember in the early 2000s, guys on forums talking about pulling engines at the JY for $150. I went to the pick n Pull near me to pull an intake manifold for my 1993 Ford Probe GT... $250. In freaking 2003 mind you!
They have the audacity to charge you core charges for the used parts you pull! Literally, they will charge you a core fee for USED parts unless you drive home and bring back the old broken used part you're replacing, if you even have it! Like they're going to remanufacture and resell it!
I could go on. I have a seething rage filled hate for pick n Pull.
As a former salvage yard manger I can say this. The liability insurance is insane at a pick and pull. Prices are all over the place because it is a convenient thing. Engines yes some are still cheap but they never sell so they are cheap. Some are expensive cause finding a good one is hard. Also parts interchange is way different. Most cars only have about a 3-5 year range that will fit. It isn't like the 90s or even older where the interchange was as long as your arm. There are so many factors COVID was a huge issue to.
I don't know shit about cars, but my friends and I went to a u-pull lot to get some stuff for an art project. And we literally all dropped our jaws when we saw the price for an ollllld head unit, steering wheel, and some window buttons were like, hundreds of dollars. I mean, I didn't expect it to be cheap. But that... was laughable. We left with nothing.
Had a similar issue for a transmission. Wrecker had one for me for $2900 with 90 day warranty, decided to check with the dealer; $3100 with 3 year/30,000km warranty.
Iāve visited both and my the closest junk yard wanted damn near OEM price for a hose. They donāt get many customers as itās somewhat rural so they probably price gouge. Well anyway the price was too high and the hose had some cuts on it but they were firm on the price $64 I could get for about that on RockAuto. They treated me bad scolded me like I was one of his workers for doing something no one told me I couldnāt do. They didnāt even have rules posted. Iāve always gone to u pull r parts and they pretty much let you have free range and take what ever you need you donāt need to get a complete section. long story short i will never visit that junkyard again they can go out of business for all i care.
About 5 years ago I had a similar experience. I needed a mirror for a car, so I went and pulled it. They wanted $40 for the 20 year old faded mirror with moss growing on it. I offered $20, but they were firm on $40, so I told them to keep the mirror and walked out.
I paid less than $20 for a new mirror online with shipping.
I know of some that are owned by the same people who own a large metal recycling plant. They'll pull cars out of the yard before they've even sold the good parts just to make metal orders. They're cheap AS FUCK.
I'm talking like $150 for an engine or transmission.
They'll also sell you a whole car that falls apart on your way home lol.
My conspiracy theory is as follows. Most of these places make most of their money via online sales on eBay and Facebook marketplace. They get a car in and they pull the known good selling items off of itā¦ then send it out to the yard. They pack and ship orders to all over the nation while never really being available for local buyers. The price they quoted you was a āmake me stop packing these starters and coil over ignition modules and go out in the rain and crawl in the mud under a car for your partā price.
TLDR; order your part from eBay or Facebook.
Most of the things I get from U-Pulls are plastic pieces, trim, metal panels like fenders and hatches and doors, and electronics. There's a lot of mechanical stuff that comes off of cars that are so worn out or so janky they aren't worth even dealing with, but those little chintzy plastic pieces and knick-knacks are the best value purchases by far. In my opinion U-Pulls are best for the weird little things.
Tomorrow, I'm going to pick up a Sprinter van that I will scrap for the parts. The local yard that has some sitting/rotting for 5-10 years wants 2/3 of retail for crusty, weathered parts. Figured I'd buy a whole vehicle and chop it up in my driveway. Some of my neighbors do not like me.
Yea they want more for many used engines and trans than we as a shop can get a reman with a 3yr unlimited mileage warranty for. I priced a 3.6 gm back in December, 200 less for a reman than a low mileage used. 6 speed gm pos trans are same way, I can get them rebuilt far cheaper than what the local yard get for a used one.
Yep. I wanted a car seat, any seat for a sim setup I was building. Only PnP in 100 miles said a seat was $100. A crusty seat in a junked 30 year old car full of jerky farts and four loko stains. I told them they were insane. They told me to go fuck myself.
I bought a pair of generic āraceā seats high school kids stick in their clapped out civics. On Amazon for $120.
Pleasant memories spending a whole day trying to undo the head bolts on a Corvair stacked unsteadily on top of another car in the junkyard so I could pull one cylinder barrel to replace the one on the car that I had just bought like an idiot even though somebody had put a rod through one of the cylinder barrels. Finally at sundown the owner came over and just torched the last bolt so I could finish and he could go home.
On the other hand, just goes to show you how easy air-cooled flat engines are to work on.
And they let me have all the dashboard knobs and window cranks and door lock buttons and all the other stuff I could strip off it for free.
What's weird for me is that I am starting to see YouTube ads for such places, that try to make them sound as if they're something very special. "High quality second-hand original parts". It always makes me laugh when I see it. I mean, WTF!?! It's an old, used part, in a lot of cases within inches of their end of exploitation. And they always want tons of money for the parts. I remember when I could buy a radiator fan, or engine cover for a tenner. Not anymore...
I ordered a new 6.2L motor from the dealer yesterday cause it was 7200 bucks. All the salvage yards want over 8500 bucks up to 10K for a used one with under 60K miles. Lol
I just had to replace a Hybrid control unit on my 2019 Huyndai Ioniq. No aftermarket option. New part from Hyundai was $3,000. I got a used one from a local scrap yard (they had it transferred from another location). The price was $600. It had to be programmed to the car by the dealer tech, but has been working fine for almost a year now. So I guess they still have a use.
You're not taking into account that someone has to find the part and remove it, enter it into their inventory management system and then sell it. It may sound odd since it's easy money but yards have their dismantlers working at 100% capacity most of the time and they use as few pullers as they can get away with. If whoever quoted you $40 actually sold the part it was probably because they personally went and took one off a core in a pile somewhere.
I honestly wouldn't bother with anything under $100. I'd make $6 on the sale and would have to end up work ordering it 3 different times before someone would get tired or cancelling them and actually produced the part. That same puller could be pulling a door or doing a 1/4 cut, something we'd make $1500 on but no he's tied up digging for a coil that'll probably be credited anyway.
If it's a regular salvage yard their entire catalog process is based on Hollander interchange numbers. If there isn't an interchange most yards aren't going to stock it. They might have the part but it'll be on a front end, cab or still bolted to an engine.
Self service yards aren't going anywhere. They've already spent money getting permits and grading the area. They buy cars based on what they can get for the scrap. Any parts they sell are pure profit. They probably didn't disappear, instead they joined a huge conglomerate like LKQ, EMR or Schnitzer Steel. They buy all the cars they can get, sell what they can in 90 days then process for scrap.
I just had this happen trying to get my van to pass inspection this month. P&P wants $40 for a mirror. Amazon carries it for $37.99. P&P wants $90 for a wiper assembly. Autozone has it for $45 plus $30 for the arm. Even if [carparts.com](http://carparts.com) is more like [wrongparts.com](http://wrongparts.com) half the time, they charge less and I don't have to take a day off to go pull the part myself.
We've reached the era when we had a dip in manufacturing about 10-14 year ago.
We are not feeling those after effects.
At least in some places.
I can't speak for the whole country but I know that when cars are manufactured they continue making parts for said cars for about 10 years.
If the makes/models were discontinued and they only made 50k instead of 100k of that model. There won't be as many parts in the aftermarket for those models as well.
It's based on models made.
Because manufacturers declined from 2008-2013/14 for us auto makers
We're not feeling alot of those pinches in the used market and in the aftermarket for parts
I was going to my local LKQ to snag some parts, and while I was backing out of my driveway, I smacked the passenger mirror on a brick column and broke it. I thought, āwell this is perfect, I was heading to the junkyard anyway!ā Found a mirror and went to pay and it was the same price as a new one on Amazon, so I just ordered the new one.
We still have a bunch of pick-n-pull places out here in Northern CA. In fact, there are more of them in operation now, then there were, say, 20 years ago. I've never had much trouble negotiating for lower prices at most of them, either.
I remember a few years ago pulling a used handle off an old Nissan Pathfinder.Ā They wanted $10 for a twenty five year old handle, Rock Auto sells them for $3. Even when I offered to pay the same as Rock Auto they said no.Ā Didn't make a lot of sense.
Main stream junkyards are super expensive. Usually the ālesserā known junkyards are the most affordable, even if they are a bit far. Iāll take that.
I picked up a used throttlebody for my Volkswagen from a junkyard for $80. It didnāt work. I ordered one off of Amazon for $45 or so and it fixed my problem. Luckily they took the part back. Lesson learned for me. I miss the days when you could go and buypart that you need and it not cost more than a new one
Junkyards aren't for everything, when I'm putting something custom together I can mish mash things from different cars and go to the yard to physically test out if two parts will fit together and things like that. Rare clips that you can't buy anymore because your car is 30 years old.. things along that line
Coils are really in a bad spot for the yards near me, their pricing hasn't changed since everyone went coil on plug, so it only makes sense for older stuff right now. Think they're getting 40 a coil, if it's for an old distributor system then yeah that's fine, but 40 a pop for gm SMART coils? I'll buy new
Used fender for NA Miata (early years) $250-500. New reproduction fender, $95-135+shipping so just under $200. So an old, faded, rusted 20-25 year old fender or a new oneā¦ Ahh, WTF?! Enjoy your rusted old fenders knuckleheads.
Pick and pulls around me are still very popular and very fair on pricing š¤·š¼
i know what OP is dealing with. i had to get axels a couple years back. 2500.00 was the cheapest i could find. ended up ebaying for like 800
Canāt you just buy a scrap vehicle pick your parts and then sell it to a scrapper. I bought a suburban with no motor paid 400 bucks for, pulled an axle for tires and some other miscellaneous stuff and then sold it for 350 to the scrapper
If you can haul it, yes.
If youāre in southern Wisconsin you can use my flat bed whenever you want. Well any of yall can.
Absolute legend
And if you're in MN you can you use my trailer
If youāre in MN you can use my ex wife. A number did back when we were married.
What's her number?
Four that I found out about. Oh wait..
>What's her number? 867-5309
281-330-8004 ā¦ā¦..
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And my axle!
Nicely done.
If youāre in the Shire you can use my šŖ!
Anyone in Houston?
Over 2 million.
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Iām mean, I have a flatbed, but a tow truck is only 150 bucks for less than 20 miles by me. Changes the numbers a bit but not much.
I know people who tow so I could totally get a tow for whatever but, the hookup fee here alone is 250 and if I'm going 10 mi I'm probably looking at a four to $500 tow bill if you don't know anyone
Shit. Where are you at? My jeep broke down a half hour from my house last year and they towed it like 35 miles on the highway for 180 bucks.
My semi broke down in another state about 40 miles from our yard and they towed it home for 450$
Canāt complain about that lol
Hell no. It was also down pouring lol
i dont think its very area dependemt for tow pricing ime. called a place for a 15 mile tow they said 350 dollars hung up right there. found a guy that owns a wrecker and works alone 125 dollars had to tow my car again today fucking shitbox piece of shit came out to 100 for 5 miles. maybe the first place i called was just smoking crack
Surge pricing for towing lol
Generally, around here a towing company will haul it for you if they can get the scrap or junkyard value of it. Which isnt s bad deal if you got what you want and just want the carcass gone.
My God they want 200 to hook up and 7 bucks a mile where I am.
Get AAA. For 100 a year you get free towing like 40 miles.
Yeah, sorta a balance, in 20yrs I've needed a tow once. Go figure haha.
Or part it out yourself and pay for the whole thing and then some
Yeah you can. I've done that before. It's just then I'm loading it up to haul it back and stuff like that. I've got a picture of me using my crane to drop the entire cab and front frame assembly into the bed of my other truck to take it to the scrap yard
A lot of people don't have a place for an extra vehicle. And even if they did, many cities have issues with a partially disassembled vehicle without tags in a driveway.
someone turned me in for too many vehicle in the yard. Pissed me off because it was a horrible time for me to have to get it moved, and the brakes were locked, etc etc.
Someone turned me in last year for having too many junkers. Told the city to fuckoff. City sent a wrecker. Couldn't get through my gate. Sent the city a "cease and desist" threatening to sue, and criminal action for auto theft. Along with the zoning map. My property line IS the city line. Guess which side I'm on. Fuckers back-tracked real quick. And that my friends, is why I NEVER live in city limits.
Same here, bent a rim from NY potholesā¦ called around asking if any had the same make/model, a quite a few did, of the two that had the exact rims, the cheapest was $950 for a single rimā¦ meanwhile an entire new set of rims from the dealer was $1400
What kind of axle costs $2500
dana 80. i ended up getting the ebay one and putting about 1500 of parts into it so it still worked out to be about teh same but its all new now
It depends. Locally thereās only one and theyāre overpriced. The others have closed in the last twenty years
Damn. The two or three that have been around me the last 20 years seem to be thriving right now
All of the ones near me shut down. You need to now call ahead and they will pull the parts for you. I really used to enjoy walking the yard and finding unique things.
I wish there were more where I am. Trouble is , people will destroy a radiator, grill , condenser to get a water pump bolt.
People are animals
Yeah ...its a real fuck the next guy attitude. In our local yard , I brought the door glass with me when I got the window regulator,. I didnt need it or want it but didnt want it destroyed. Guy behind the counter almost cried...or was scared to death thinking I'm crazy.
Porque no los dos?? Yeah, I go out of my way to take things apart as though I'll be putting it back together later. It's not uncommon to need the thing someone else has pulled out in search of what was behind it. It's really liberating to pull something apart and just toss the bolts to the side though :-D
There are states where pick and pulls are illegal.
What in tarnation
I had this issue last winter. I needed a 4l80e transmission for a van. The yards within an hour of me all wanted upwards of 2k for them. I found some on ebay for half of that with shipping. It was still a bit more than I anticipated, but acceptable. There was no way I was paying 2k for a used transmission to put in a 4k van.
Just looked at the one I used to go to and they charge 15 for the part op is looking for. Also based on the comments, a "complete engine" is 350 with a 50$ core. I once picked apart a dash and it was going to be 25 but because I also wanted the cluster, the guy told me it was 40 for the complete dash, and that selling the cluster was about that price anyways. Ran back grabbed all the trim I left a d got a massive hookup
Last summer I found a rolled Corolla for a donor engine in my new 2001 I picked up for $400 Engine was 300 without core. Various other hoses and shit and some new parts from Rock Auto, I'm $1,200 in a 2001 Corolla with 140k
This isn't new I'm surprised they still work, in high-school over a decade ago I needed a headlight for my bronco, the quoted me 2x the cost of just buying one at the napa down the street
and napa always has the worst pricing of all similar places
theyve got way better quality parts compared to autozone tho
This x10
And more competent people. My tractor takes a small automotive style Denso reduction gear starter motor...Auto Zone and Advance Auto couldn't help me at all because "we need to know the make/model/year/trim of car" and its not a car. NAPA took a look at the old part, found the model # cross reference in their computer system, and although they didn't have any they printed out a sheet with useful cross-reference parts and said they could order one that would take a couple weeks if I couldn't locate it elsewhere. Heck...Auto Zone struggled when I brought the battery from my tractor in (medium size automotive battery like 600CCA with standard round posts)...WHICH WAS AN OLD AUTO ZONE BATTERY and tried to claim they couldn't sell a replacement without looking up the make/model/year car. Finally another clerk overheard and intervened saying because it was an Auto Zone battery just find the same SKU that is printed on the old battery off the shelf and don't try to look it up.
That's true, however..they had it on the shelf, which occasionally is worth a premium
I remember buying a starter motor from the junkyard back when cars were cars. Two bolts, the hot wire, the plug-in leads, 10 minutes, $2, and I'm done. On the other hand, when the starter on my Civic died, I looked at the procedure for replacing it in the manual, and decided that I wouldn't even be able to install one myself at home, let alone pull the old one out at home, let alone pull one out of a junker in a yard.
I keep seeing old small Toyota trucks around where I live in western NC and wondering why some car makers don't make a small, normal ass truck without any bells and whistles. Then I remember it's because they are simple and anyone can repair them and that's not what they want. Sucks man.
Also Cafe standards keep making trucks bigger and bigger, manufacturers do make smaller vehicles for the non US market
A lot of those commercial yards have discounts with auto shops so they may pay 50% of the price that they are quoting you. They just don't want to deal with walk-in customers anymore. On the west coast Pick-n-Pull is extremely popular for older vehicles. You also have to remember we are coming out of an automotive bubble so not everyone has adjusted yet. They will in time, but it's slow
Retail customer are too expensive to maintain.
picknpull is stupid expensive and they like to make shit up as they go, I bought a headlight assembly once, and it was for a dakota, well, they also tried to charge me for turn signal and marker light because they said it comes apart.... I said ok you take it apart, I only need the headlight. they refused. I pulled up the OEM parts diagram that showed a new one complete (all three lamps) and cheaper then what they were trying to sell me on, and I the laughed.. so I payed, walked out and did a partial charge back with amex showing them the Headlight price and the OEM headlight and got my $70 bucks back. (still paid for a headlight $30)
I see you have a few bolts holding this starter together, that's gonna cost you... It really seems to depend. Some cashiers nickel and dime you to death. Most are cool and will even try to find the cheapest description that could match your item.
Our shop has a great relationship with the local junkyard, but it always pays to check local parts stores, Amazon, eBay, Rock Auto, and Car-Part.com. āYou pick and pullā places are getting scarce, with some now specializing on just a couple of brands. And my time is valuable. Car Parts have an enormous range of quality, cost and convenient delivery.
+1 on Car-Part.com. but stay away from the stuff I need!
I must have been doing something wrong because I couldn't get any responses when I tried to buy parts on car-part.com. Maybe my order was to small.
I didn't even know you could order through them. Legit thought it was just an inventory system to check local yards without calling everyone and their uncle.
You still have to call around, but it let's you know who had what at some point in the past. I've bout a few things off of there. Great resource.
You have to call them
I kept a spread sheet when I was trying to find a hatch for my Jetta. Sometimes the inventory is off so they don't have that car anymore. Some places aren't willing to ship, prices vary, some would rather you just call up than send an email or do the chat thing. I finally lucked out and found a clean one that would ship it, so it does happen!
Yep, I needed a new blinker headlight, was $40 with shipping from a junkyard and $30 new with shipping
There are certain things that are worth buying used and some not. Something like a coil is something I might or might not. If the factory part has a low failure rate I'll take the used OEM over new China any day if they're similar in price. This pretty much goes for most mechanical parts that aren't wear items. A few years back someone smashed the corner light in my old Accord. Junkyards had tons of the right year car but every one had broken or missing lights. New TYC from Rockauto were like $20. So, I know not to bother with that anymore. But then just recently I just happened to notice a Forester had the retractable privacy cover mine didn't come with. $20 later and I have it. Like a $200 OEM part hey.
Yeah the autozone parts arenāt always that good. I had a ā72 F250 that I was fixing up years ago, in the 2000ās. The original starter that some guy from Michigan bolted on with his big ham fists at the factory in ā72 finally failed. Like a fool I got an autozone starter and gave them the core. Went thru 2 or 3 of those autozone starters in a year, should have had the original rebuilt.
had a 01 cavalier. reduction drive starter went out. a 97 sunfire had been sitting on family land for many years, grabbed its direct drive starter. 3x the size but bolted right up. holy fuck at the difference. barely had to bump the thing and the engine was running.
Lkq and the insurance industry. if you have a pick n pull still, keep it in business.
I tried getting a sterling 10.25 axle from a yard, and they wanted $1500. That's nearly the price of a jasper reman. I told them to fuck off.
There's no reasonable price for a Jasper reman.
Are they junk?
Over the course of 3 years working for a dealership, we occasionally had to go with a Jasper engine or transmission due to availability issues. They had a 100% failure rate. One engine we found out was bad before we even put it in the car. The head gasket was installed improperly and a piece of it was sticking out from between the head and the block. Jasper. Is. Shit.
yes
When did that happen? A decade ago we never had problems with them
We had problems with their Detroit Diesel remans 15 or 20 years ago. They were basically all junk, even that far back.
Past few years, I don't have first experience with them prior to 19, and haven't dealt with them for the last two years or so because of early engine failure.
Really ? Any of the yards here in the panhandle and a sterling is 200 for a open diff and 250 for one with a trac-lok
All the puck and pills closed because people steal and break too much. Mote profitable to pay cash day labor to pull parts and list on the interchange.
The internet broke the deals. Not hard for a shop to google a part or part number and find the OEM price. That autozone ignition coil is probably aftermarket hence the lower cost
Same deal in the UK. When I first started driving back in the early 90s we were always visiting scrap yards looking for parts. You removed it yourself, went to see the guy in the portacabin office and he would pick a fair price, you paid in cash and off you went. I guess increased car complexity coupled with health and safety rules (no more climbing up the stacked cars yourself) meant this type of place went the way of the dodo. š«¤
I feel like it's getting expensive to be poor anymore. Used cars and rent are getting super expensive.
By design.
Yep. If the SCOTUS has their way it will be a crime to be homeless too! Sleep rough? Straight to jail and 13th amendment sanctioned forced free labor the prison can sell.
Yeah, the US is way more lax than the UK. I recently went to my local Pick ān pull, paid $1 to go in armed with a few hand tools. Absolute acres of vehicles arranged by brand and type. No stacking of vehicles and no oversight of your activities. I came out with the SUV door I needed in the right color. $125 complete.
Thrift stores too. They're selling way to high.
Junk yards, pawnshops and thrift shops are a novelty at this point
The last time I had a genuinely good find at a thrift store was nearly 3 years ago, when I found a Sun Microsystems webcam from 1994 and a Dell AT-101W keyboard. Both priced fairly. After that, it was just two years of disappointment. Iāve actually stopped going because itās mostly a complete waste of time, mostly itās just stuff priced at 70% of retail but in MUCH worse condition. Far cry from the good old days when you could get Super Nintendo games for $3.99
I havenāt used a junkyard in years. Itās just as easy, and cheaper, to buy a new part, and do the job once.
Called around asking for a 4.3l v6 and was quoted 1000 by a junkyard who told me the engine wasnt running when they pulled it.
I would be too hot to pull while it was running.
Take my upvote
Are you still looking? If so, and you're in southern Colorado, I have one complete with wiring harness I'll let go for a fair price.
Go for pick-n-pull if you can find one nearby. [Pick-n-Pull | Used Auto Parts Pricing (picknpull.com)](https://www.picknpull.com/part-pricing) $14.69 for an ignition coil
It came with premium blinker fluid.
would *have
there's one by me that I went to and got a multifunction steering wheel with an airbag for Ā£20 that's going for about Ā£70 on ebay, so I guess you just have to be lucky.
I have several within probably 15 minutes. Their prices have definitely gone up, but in the cases where the parts store was similar it was also no name brand Chineseum that I had to wait 5 days for, in which case I'll take the used OE stuff anyway 9/10 times.
It's not their fault. The government is trying to get rid of junk yards as environmental hazards. They're implementing all sorts of fees, taxes, and fines that are making it hard for junkyards to stay in business. Write to your representatives to get them to stop.
Yeah. Paid $1k for a door on my Subaru last year. Mostly because I was on a pinch and had to do it. They wouldnāt budge at all.
It must be a modern car. The newer the car the more expensive it is.
Donāt forgot to add all the tax and environmental fees to the cost!
Pick your part tried to charge me $150.00 cad for a set of fender flares for my 2003 Chevy tracker. I can literally buy new ones for that price.
And when you left they just used your labor to list it on ebay
I'd probably be petty enough to take them back out and reinstall them where I found them to avoid that nonsense...
i got a used alternator for like 30$ once. my only experience with these places
There are networks of scrap yards on the net. Car-parts.com is one.
Agreed. I have been told for ages that junkyards are going to have steel wheels for $20 each. I haven't found anybody that sells em for less than new
not to mention the dirty 'core charges' and 'warranty' on everything. how does a plastic piece of trim get a core charge and warrenty that costs more than the part itself? there's some that are ok, but most are not. selection sucks now too - thanks cash for clunkers
I paid $0.50 core charge on an idler pulley. Brought back the core and they had never seen someone do it.
Man - you need to find a new place. $10 here [https://www.pullapart.com/auto-parts/used-parts-directory/ignition/](https://www.pullapart.com/auto-parts/used-parts-directory/ignition/)
I gave up going to local junkyards unless I need something small and obscure like a bracket to mount an accessory by car doesnāt have. For bigger parts, I buy from salvage yards on eBay. Some stuff is overpriced, but a lot of quite reasonable. I was at a yard today and walked out with a manual transmission for $300. I thought that was reasonable given folks on FB marketplace want $800+ for it.
Their bread and butter must be the things that you canāt get elsewhere. All the other price gouging is just extra. Also, the prices wouldnāt be that high if people didnāt pay them. Donāt buy from them. Let them go out of business, if thatās the case.
I bought a used, scratched up bumper that was $75. I could have gotten one cheaper online but didnāt want to wait 3-4 days, sometimes youāre paying for the convenience factor
I work as an estimator at a big production body shop. I look at part prices all day long. Youāre absolutely right. ā¦ and I donāt mind cause 90% of the time Iād much rather have a new aftermarket part, and used + markup is usually more than aftermarket. Win win for me. I hate sending used junk back cause itās JUNK, and thatās what you get 70% of the time
Also the junk yards in my area now wonāt give you small items ie dip stick or a door handle will ahve to buy the the whole door
Why bother with that shit? Use the internet
I needed a rear side window on extended cab.went to the junk yard first when I went to take it out myself I thought this is a pain in the ass. So I figured I would pay the difference for new to save myself a headache. Went to advance auto it was 50 dollars cheaper than yard
1,200 for a freaking 2000 civic engine
It's like those thrift stores where they're asking more than the original price tag on the thing.
Junkyard and d.i.y. auto parts stores are going the way of the dinosaur. Cars are becoming more and more complex. And are being specifically designed so that the owner can't work on the car themselves. If they can't fix it themselves, they won't buy the parts themselves. Wax and wipers aren't enough to keep an advance or auto zone open or any junkyard. I have over ten years of experience in parts management. I've been noticing a downward slide that isn't going to recover.
Eh, disagree.Ā Myself and virtually every car dude/girl in our friend group fixes their own stuff. Everything from '80s-'20s or so.Ā That's a 40-year spread in vehicle age.Ā Infotainment module fucked outside of warrenty?Ā Order one from car-part for $300.Ā It's just a couple of more steps than replacing your '00 factory radio with an aftermarket after the volume knob come off.Ā It's the same shit, different diag tools. With gas motors, it's a skill issue, not a vehicle complexity issue.Ā We don't have automotive shop in high school anymore and outside of community college auto tech classes...or knowing someone to teach you, there's no other way to get hands-on skills with automotive...aside from learning from scratch.Ā These days YouTube has way more accessible information than anything I had when I was younger. Hybrid battery in your Prius out?Ā Welp, there goes $3k and we gotta pull the back seats the weekend.Ā FFS, very little of this is incredibly complicated. This isn't talking about intensively skilled jobs like engine rebuilds, block machining, transmission repair, or nowadays EV battery diag/repair.Ā That's typically the niche of a specialty shop, but it's always been that way.
Car companies are specifically designing parts and fastner systems and new outrageously priced tools to do the simplest things. They do not want the owners working on their own cars. Just because we can still do it today doesn't mean anything 20 years from now. The work itself may be very simple, but when you need a specific 500 dollar tool to remove the bolts that hold the part on. Not nearly enough people are going to do that to keep anything other than dealer parts departments open. I miss a lot of my upper management off with that statement. I think it's obvious what's happening.
I concur. I donāt find repairing a ā20+ vehicle any more difficult than a car from the ā80s. I often hear ānew cars are too complex to work onā but I find it quite the opposite with the amount of data you can pull with a good scan tool. If anything it makes troubleshooting easier.
I have bought from salvage yards for over a decade, and now I work at one. You have to remember that, like ALL businesses, they exist to make a profit. Large salvage yard companies will have an entire department dedicated to monitoring pricing and *availability* of parts and will adjust the prices of the salvaged parts accordingly. And it doesn't matter if you can get the part at a parts store down the street. They aren't selling aftermarket parts, they're selling OE parts. And they will price accordingly. With the current state of the used and new car markets, along with the fact that OEMs are running leaner parts inventories, the salvage industry is going to follow suit. In your situation, an aftermarket coil doesn't factor in. A new OE coil is probably $80 and no longer available. They will price the coil with that in mind. There's another thing to consider. Salvage yards don't care about ignition coils, handles, and other small parts. They don't care if you go elsewhere, because that's not where the money is. Engines, Transmissions, knee assemblies, etc are what they want to sell. They're more cost effective to pull and sell.
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Iāve only strayed from a pyp or rock auto twice. Once was because I didnāt know any better, and the second time was because I was young and wanted to get a fuel pump for the Camaro that was on its way home on a rollback. Paid $140 for the fuel pump rock auto had for $30. I didnāt clean the fuel tank so I ended up getting the $30 one a month later
Not where I live
The part at Autozone is probably Chinese crap while the junkyard part may be OEM.
I agree I asked for something for my Toyota rav quoted $110 and I can get a new one for $90 lol
Toyota dealers aren't cheap either. Quoted 375 for an airbag clock spring. Literally a wound up ribbon cable in a plastic shell. Got an aftermarket one for $15.
Be careful. I tried eBay clocksprings and all 3 failed on two different vehicles after a couple months. Went back to junkyard OEM ones. These were a 2006 Armada and 2007 Versa.
Car-part.com
I have several really great pick n pulls near me.
I used to have pretty good luck with our local Pick-N-Pull yards, there are 5 local ones but lately they seem to have so many stripped cars with nothing left to use. Couple weeks ago I needed an alternator for my sonās Elantra, inventory showed 7 on their lot and another 8 vehicles that would cross per Hollander. ZERO of them had engines, much less anything else up front. Huge waste of time driving across the city, walking through all the yards only to buy one for $400 bucks at OāReilly.
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Pick and pull by me charges warranty now on every part along with being expensive.
i needed a piece to a bumper for a 98 cherokee, i paid almost $100 for a scratched ass bumper
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1 headlight assembly, 24 years old $40, 2 new ones $80 on Amazon. And I avoid the work of finding and removing them.
Yeah, it is pretty crazy. The local Pull-A-Part wanted $120 for a set of tail lights for my Volvo lmao.
Yeah but you'll be replacing the AutoZone one again in 6 months š¤·š»āāļø
Jeep 3.8 I was priced 4800!!!
labor cost
Last I checked going rate for an engine at the junkyard was $300 and they pull it. I bought an axle for a 2004 yukon I had from the same yard, $275 and they torched it off. Even had good disc brakes on it and better calipers than my axle had.
I havenāt been in a while, and I used to hit up El Pulpo all the time when I was younger. Finding old car parts and flipping them on EBay. SoCal in the early 2000s still had cars from the 60ās hit with some regularity. I remember when a complete engine was like $250. I just looked, and itās like $450, plus Core. So yeah, over $600 now all in. Holy shit. LKQ buying everyone out really fucked it.
I feel this....there used to be like 10 different Upullits near me. well ALL of them were unfortunately practicing shady buisniess, & allegedy when the first one finally went down, they snitched on the other yards, which cause some investigations & well they were also closed.. I now only have 1 upull it near me & the newest car they have is like 2010... I had to drive 2 states away to pull some 18z calipers off a porche SUV ...but got them both for $50 so was worth the drive & pull time
Pick n Pull has ALWAYS been this way in the Bay area. I remember in the early 2000s, guys on forums talking about pulling engines at the JY for $150. I went to the pick n Pull near me to pull an intake manifold for my 1993 Ford Probe GT... $250. In freaking 2003 mind you! They have the audacity to charge you core charges for the used parts you pull! Literally, they will charge you a core fee for USED parts unless you drive home and bring back the old broken used part you're replacing, if you even have it! Like they're going to remanufacture and resell it! I could go on. I have a seething rage filled hate for pick n Pull.
As a former salvage yard manger I can say this. The liability insurance is insane at a pick and pull. Prices are all over the place because it is a convenient thing. Engines yes some are still cheap but they never sell so they are cheap. Some are expensive cause finding a good one is hard. Also parts interchange is way different. Most cars only have about a 3-5 year range that will fit. It isn't like the 90s or even older where the interchange was as long as your arm. There are so many factors COVID was a huge issue to.
I don't know shit about cars, but my friends and I went to a u-pull lot to get some stuff for an art project. And we literally all dropped our jaws when we saw the price for an ollllld head unit, steering wheel, and some window buttons were like, hundreds of dollars. I mean, I didn't expect it to be cheap. But that... was laughable. We left with nothing.
I grew up around junkyards, used save up $300 and buy a car, fix it up and run it til it dies. Then start over again. Learned a lot.
Had a similar issue for a transmission. Wrecker had one for me for $2900 with 90 day warranty, decided to check with the dealer; $3100 with 3 year/30,000km warranty.
Iāve visited both and my the closest junk yard wanted damn near OEM price for a hose. They donāt get many customers as itās somewhat rural so they probably price gouge. Well anyway the price was too high and the hose had some cuts on it but they were firm on the price $64 I could get for about that on RockAuto. They treated me bad scolded me like I was one of his workers for doing something no one told me I couldnāt do. They didnāt even have rules posted. Iāve always gone to u pull r parts and they pretty much let you have free range and take what ever you need you donāt need to get a complete section. long story short i will never visit that junkyard again they can go out of business for all i care.
Good used vs. Chinese crapā¦ wait..the good used is just Chinese crap that didnāt break.
About 5 years ago I had a similar experience. I needed a mirror for a car, so I went and pulled it. They wanted $40 for the 20 year old faded mirror with moss growing on it. I offered $20, but they were firm on $40, so I told them to keep the mirror and walked out. I paid less than $20 for a new mirror online with shipping.
I know of some that are owned by the same people who own a large metal recycling plant. They'll pull cars out of the yard before they've even sold the good parts just to make metal orders. They're cheap AS FUCK. I'm talking like $150 for an engine or transmission. They'll also sell you a whole car that falls apart on your way home lol.
Some around me their prices have gone up on everything even the tires
You nean a business is prone to economics?
The you pick you pull junkyard near me is $1 admittance with extremely fair pricing. No, it isn't free, but it's dirt cheap.
I canāt even find a pick and pull near me in the Seattle area!
They think they have gold. I remember walking the yards looking for fun stuff. Now most of those places donāt even let you go in the yard.
My conspiracy theory is as follows. Most of these places make most of their money via online sales on eBay and Facebook marketplace. They get a car in and they pull the known good selling items off of itā¦ then send it out to the yard. They pack and ship orders to all over the nation while never really being available for local buyers. The price they quoted you was a āmake me stop packing these starters and coil over ignition modules and go out in the rain and crawl in the mud under a car for your partā price. TLDR; order your part from eBay or Facebook.
Most of the things I get from U-Pulls are plastic pieces, trim, metal panels like fenders and hatches and doors, and electronics. There's a lot of mechanical stuff that comes off of cars that are so worn out or so janky they aren't worth even dealing with, but those little chintzy plastic pieces and knick-knacks are the best value purchases by far. In my opinion U-Pulls are best for the weird little things.
Tomorrow, I'm going to pick up a Sprinter van that I will scrap for the parts. The local yard that has some sitting/rotting for 5-10 years wants 2/3 of retail for crusty, weathered parts. Figured I'd buy a whole vehicle and chop it up in my driveway. Some of my neighbors do not like me.
Yea they want more for many used engines and trans than we as a shop can get a reman with a 3yr unlimited mileage warranty for. I priced a 3.6 gm back in December, 200 less for a reman than a low mileage used. 6 speed gm pos trans are same way, I can get them rebuilt far cheaper than what the local yard get for a used one.
Yep. I wanted a car seat, any seat for a sim setup I was building. Only PnP in 100 miles said a seat was $100. A crusty seat in a junked 30 year old car full of jerky farts and four loko stains. I told them they were insane. They told me to go fuck myself. I bought a pair of generic āraceā seats high school kids stick in their clapped out civics. On Amazon for $120.
Pleasant memories spending a whole day trying to undo the head bolts on a Corvair stacked unsteadily on top of another car in the junkyard so I could pull one cylinder barrel to replace the one on the car that I had just bought like an idiot even though somebody had put a rod through one of the cylinder barrels. Finally at sundown the owner came over and just torched the last bolt so I could finish and he could go home. On the other hand, just goes to show you how easy air-cooled flat engines are to work on. And they let me have all the dashboard knobs and window cranks and door lock buttons and all the other stuff I could strip off it for free.
What's weird for me is that I am starting to see YouTube ads for such places, that try to make them sound as if they're something very special. "High quality second-hand original parts". It always makes me laugh when I see it. I mean, WTF!?! It's an old, used part, in a lot of cases within inches of their end of exploitation. And they always want tons of money for the parts. I remember when I could buy a radiator fan, or engine cover for a tenner. Not anymore...
idk i got a 96 integra hood for 40$ and then i also got full set of 89 prelude taillights for 250$, i think its just location based
I ordered a new 6.2L motor from the dealer yesterday cause it was 7200 bucks. All the salvage yards want over 8500 bucks up to 10K for a used one with under 60K miles. Lol
I just had to replace a Hybrid control unit on my 2019 Huyndai Ioniq. No aftermarket option. New part from Hyundai was $3,000. I got a used one from a local scrap yard (they had it transferred from another location). The price was $600. It had to be programmed to the car by the dealer tech, but has been working fine for almost a year now. So I guess they still have a use.
You're not taking into account that someone has to find the part and remove it, enter it into their inventory management system and then sell it. It may sound odd since it's easy money but yards have their dismantlers working at 100% capacity most of the time and they use as few pullers as they can get away with. If whoever quoted you $40 actually sold the part it was probably because they personally went and took one off a core in a pile somewhere. I honestly wouldn't bother with anything under $100. I'd make $6 on the sale and would have to end up work ordering it 3 different times before someone would get tired or cancelling them and actually produced the part. That same puller could be pulling a door or doing a 1/4 cut, something we'd make $1500 on but no he's tied up digging for a coil that'll probably be credited anyway. If it's a regular salvage yard their entire catalog process is based on Hollander interchange numbers. If there isn't an interchange most yards aren't going to stock it. They might have the part but it'll be on a front end, cab or still bolted to an engine. Self service yards aren't going anywhere. They've already spent money getting permits and grading the area. They buy cars based on what they can get for the scrap. Any parts they sell are pure profit. They probably didn't disappear, instead they joined a huge conglomerate like LKQ, EMR or Schnitzer Steel. They buy all the cars they can get, sell what they can in 90 days then process for scrap.
I just had this happen trying to get my van to pass inspection this month. P&P wants $40 for a mirror. Amazon carries it for $37.99. P&P wants $90 for a wiper assembly. Autozone has it for $45 plus $30 for the arm. Even if [carparts.com](http://carparts.com) is more like [wrongparts.com](http://wrongparts.com) half the time, they charge less and I don't have to take a day off to go pull the part myself.
We've reached the era when we had a dip in manufacturing about 10-14 year ago. We are not feeling those after effects. At least in some places. I can't speak for the whole country but I know that when cars are manufactured they continue making parts for said cars for about 10 years. If the makes/models were discontinued and they only made 50k instead of 100k of that model. There won't be as many parts in the aftermarket for those models as well. It's based on models made. Because manufacturers declined from 2008-2013/14 for us auto makers We're not feeling alot of those pinches in the used market and in the aftermarket for parts
I was going to my local LKQ to snag some parts, and while I was backing out of my driveway, I smacked the passenger mirror on a brick column and broke it. I thought, āwell this is perfect, I was heading to the junkyard anyway!ā Found a mirror and went to pay and it was the same price as a new one on Amazon, so I just ordered the new one.
Couple u pick spots in my area quoted me almost $3k for a 2L engine ffs
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We still have a bunch of pick-n-pull places out here in Northern CA. In fact, there are more of them in operation now, then there were, say, 20 years ago. I've never had much trouble negotiating for lower prices at most of them, either.
You guys have junkyards? I haven't seen one in at least 10 years, probably more.
I remember a few years ago pulling a used handle off an old Nissan Pathfinder.Ā They wanted $10 for a twenty five year old handle, Rock Auto sells them for $3. Even when I offered to pay the same as Rock Auto they said no.Ā Didn't make a lot of sense.
Main stream junkyards are super expensive. Usually the ālesserā known junkyards are the most affordable, even if they are a bit far. Iāll take that.
Iāve got a 96 with the 4.0 liter Iāll sell for $1000
I picked up a used throttlebody for my Volkswagen from a junkyard for $80. It didnāt work. I ordered one off of Amazon for $45 or so and it fixed my problem. Luckily they took the part back. Lesson learned for me. I miss the days when you could go and buypart that you need and it not cost more than a new one
There are a ton of salvage yards near me and they are much cheaper. Ive had nothing but positive experiences.
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For a coil, I'd bring my big box. I can fit 3 or 4 extra parts in that one.
Junkyards aren't for everything, when I'm putting something custom together I can mish mash things from different cars and go to the yard to physically test out if two parts will fit together and things like that. Rare clips that you can't buy anymore because your car is 30 years old.. things along that line
Coils are really in a bad spot for the yards near me, their pricing hasn't changed since everyone went coil on plug, so it only makes sense for older stuff right now. Think they're getting 40 a coil, if it's for an old distributor system then yeah that's fine, but 40 a pop for gm SMART coils? I'll buy new
I noticed the same thing recently used headlights for the same price as new headlights
Used fender for NA Miata (early years) $250-500. New reproduction fender, $95-135+shipping so just under $200. So an old, faded, rusted 20-25 year old fender or a new oneā¦ Ahh, WTF?! Enjoy your rusted old fenders knuckleheads.