Salvage yards

enjenjo · January 06, 2015, 08:12:44 AM

I never thought I would see it coming, but the last decent salvage yard in the area closed a couple months ago. Now I have to drive 20 miles to find any thing worthwhile, and finding any thing older that 10 years is a toss up. The owners I have talked to tell me that they are tired of dealing with all the government regulation and testing required.

WZ JUNK · January 06, 2015, 09:20:48 AM

My local yard will not let anyone go into the actual salvage area. His last insurance carrier caught him letting someone go into the yard and the company canceled his coverage. His new insurance said that it will cancel for the same reason. The cost of the insurance goes up and the coverage goes down. In our society of law suits, he can not operate without the insurance, so no one goes in the back but employees.

I know he has stuff back there that I need, but I can not get to it.

John

Harry · January 06, 2015, 12:01:58 PM

Up here on Vancouver Island, two really good scrap yards closed last year.

fast401 · January 06, 2015, 01:03:33 PM

Which one closed? I was hoping to get you to go to Bryan with me in seach of some AMC junk!!!!

kb426 · January 06, 2015, 01:07:02 PM

Most of us have the same stories.

enjenjo · January 06, 2015, 01:48:49 PM

Quote from: "fast401"Which one closed? I was hoping to get you to go to Bryan with me in seach of some AMC junk!!!!

KRAP.

Charlie Chops 1940 · January 06, 2015, 01:51:03 PM

I probably haven't been in a junk yard in 5 or 6 years. Any old parts we need now are already in private hands.

Arnold · January 06, 2015, 03:54:01 PM

Quote from: "WZ JUNK"My local yard will not let anyone go into the actual salvage area. His last insurance carrier caught him letting someone go into the yard and the company canceled his coverage. His new insurance said that it will cancel for the same reason. The cost of the insurance goes up and the coverage goes down. In our society of law suits, he can not operate without the insurance, so no one goes in the back but employees.

I know he has stuff back there that I need, but I can not get to it.

John

Interesting.Here in S. Ontario..there lots of yards that you can go into. I mean you cannot walk in off the street..but lots of them..you go in..they give you a price..or you can go and get it yourself for less.A few of the big yards advertise a few times per year on radio some deal where they charge admission to their yard. $40 or $50 or something.In you go.Take just whatever you can carry. True.They also now have quite a few pic a part as well as prices,inventories on-line.If you end up phoning around you often get 2 prices...they take it off..or you do.
I don't find it so much as a distance thing..but more of something that is gone..
Seems to me pretty much everytime I have anything to do with scrap/junk yards..stuff is just getting newer and newer exponentially.

Sad..when old junk yards go..or have to..chased out..
I can't even imagine what environmental problems there are in that business

48ford · January 06, 2015, 08:40:45 PM

This is bad news Frank, not much left in Toledo. Everything is new stuff

purplepickup · January 07, 2015, 11:36:55 AM

I needed a dash part for my daily driver a while back so I went to a yard that lets you pull your own parts. The cars are not up on stands like many 'pull-a-part' yards. I found a car with the part and it was sitting on a pile of tires. When I got in to pull the part the whole car rocked forward. I got the part and when I got out the car rocked back. It was just balanced on a pile of tires.

I'd guess this is the type of yard that has given insurance companies ammunition to crack down on others. This yard still lets you pull your own parts tho.

unklian · January 07, 2015, 12:42:49 PM

Quote from: "Arnold"
Interesting.Here in S. Ontario..there lots of yards that you can go into. I mean you cannot walk in off the street..but lots of them..you go in..they give you a price..or you can go and get it yourself for less.

Looking for late model parts, I've had good luck at
Mike's, in Hamilton, http://www.mikesautopart.ca/
and Megacity in Milton.

Not much luck at Standard in Scarborough.
http://www.standardautowreckers.com/faq.htm#

Others:
http://www.picnsave.ca/
http://www.andysautowreckers.com/andys/home/index.php
http://coreyautowreckers.weebly.com/
http://glendaleauto.ca/

Good luck finding anything old.

Crosley.In.AZ · January 09, 2015, 11:38:29 PM

I've not been in a wrecking yard in a few yrs... usually when I get there, parts are all gone that I would be interested in.

Carnut · January 10, 2015, 03:59:13 PM

Some of the finest hours of my youth were spent mucking around in

junkyards in the great Southwest; and in trainyards.

Some low, sweet song stems nearly unheard,

only gradually reaching the conciousness,

whispering of man's mechanical creations,

murmuring about greatness; and of folly, too,

and finally dies out among the dry thistle of those hallowed grounds.

I sat in many a rusting hulk,

and wondered where it had been,

who had directed it's journey,

and what had become of the lives it had once been intertwined with.

My imagination soared,

as I shifted the impotent transmission,

and stared into the empty sockets of the oncoming hulk in the next row.

Imaginary tires protested sharp corners,

passengers clung for dear life,

and rivals were vanquished.

My sweaty palms gripped the Buick Roadmaster wheel,

as I gracefully swept from town to town on an eternal journey,

seeing sights, and hearing sounds that are now unavailable to my

inflexible modern adult mind.

Greg Stoner
03/17/97

Rrumbler · January 11, 2015, 03:20:02 AM

Cool, Carnut; thanks.