5-finger in the yard

[Eric]

you guys would die if you saw the BMW specific yard that is 10 miles from me!


back in the states i had a hard time getting into yards. the counter people often would say that becuase of insurance reasons, nobody but employee's were allowed in. how do you guys bypass this stupid rule?

[AndrewBird]

It helps to throw a couple of tampons in the bag so they feel uncomfortable and don't want to dig any deeper.

I don't know if that would NOT work, or work BETTER for a guy. lol

[blueapplesoda]

damn....i had to beg some guy to come and take my e30s away. seems that nobody wants scrap chassis + random parts.

[NomadE30]

My local, if you want to call it local(100 miles away), euro junkyard charges an arm and a leg, until you bring down a e30 parts car missing everything you ever wanted. And they say to come back more often for some great deals. Recently bought a 3.91 lsd with only 50k miles on the car it came out of only $200!!!!

and to think they gave me 200$ for a e30 that had no roof, no engine, no tranny, basically no interior, no wheels, no fenders, no electronics what so ever, and no dash.

[benDASHDASH]

WOW, what a crummy place to have your car impounded!

[Jean]

I don't get how that can happen, was the car inside the lot or not ?

That sucks.

[Justin B]

oh that suuuuuuuucks. I guess at least you got a cheap interior! DOH!

[TopOfTheLine89]

I have a funny story related to this.
The tips:
First off i always stock up on fuses and shift knobs,hose clamps, window up/down switched, sunroof cranks. All the small parts that break easily on e30s. Also i came up with a great idea for "buying" parts. I use a trojan horse method, i buy a big cheap part and put a smaller expensive part inside it. I put a 173 ecu into the back of the drivers seat and bough it. My friend stole a whole garret T3 off of a volvo.
The story:
Anyway i go to the junkyard and realize there is a fresh 88 325i parked toward the front of the yard, not yet with the other imports, It had imaculate black leather interior so i decided to get the drivers seat. On the way out the guy tells me its gonna be crushed real soon. So hurriedly the next day i go out with a friend with a full tool set, i dive into the engine bay cutting belts and hacksawing some stuff to get the i camshaft, i intake manifold, front and back seats all leather, i gauge cluster. i even put an xbox controller in the back of one of the seats that i had found. So I pretty much destroyed this cars engine bay to get the parts i wanted. threw the head of the m20 into a random van so it wouldn't get crushed. So after 3-4 hrs of work me and my friend carry all the parts up making 2 trips. The guy says "you got 600 dollars worth of parts there" as i layed them all out on the floor. i tell him ill give him all the money in my wallet for them which was $ 110 with 10 1 dollar bills, he hands me back all the ones so i get everything for $100. I come back the next day for the steering wheel and he says he can't even let me back into the yard. I guess the car was an impound,lol. It was someone's running e30 which i stripped and destroyed and it wasn't legaly the yards property yet. I guess all the guys that work the yard were really pissed off that it happened and they were gonna fence off that whole area of the yard because of me. As soon as he told me i got the hell outta there before anyone else saw my car. I haven't been back since and when i do go i sure as hell won't be driving my E30.

quick notes: Topoftheline89 tears apart someone elses E30 parked at a junkyard unknowingly. Sorry whoever you are out there.

[rThor432]

Damn.. I havent ever stolen anything from the Pick n Pull. They give me great deals anyway.

Last time I went I got a pedal assembly (including clutch slave and lines), all of the fuel hoses in the engine compartment, a fpr, a full exhaust (minus cat), random switches, and some other brackets and such for $5.50.

[Jscotty]

Pull part - go to the office, tell them it's from a Toyota...

White Lies FTW!

But as for those other small parts like dimmer switches, trim pieces, nuts, bolts, screws.. I don't ever feel bad about stealing that stuff because its all going to end up in a pile of crushed and broken pieces that nobody gave a crap about anyway. Its like once they pull the engine, transmission and maybe a few other key parts that are in good condition, they really don't care much about the little stuff.

But I certainly would not attempt to steal anything of real tangable value like a steering column or a pair of tail lights.. although I did happen to snag a couple of side markers in the midst of pulling an instrument cluster.

[robtech]

rewind the way back clock to high school (7 years ago) my buddy got his first car...91 eclipse...the dash lights in it never worked due to a broken dimmer switch...so one day we're at the wrecker getting parts for one of my cars and he pockets a dimmer switch...we instal...that night he totals his car...stolen parts are bad juju...i dont steal from wreckers...but i know most of the guys there so i get sweet deals neways.

[Simon S]

nuts/bolts/clip+fasteners. stuff thats worth crap to them anywayz.

whenever I do put such items on the counter,

they just give it to me for free anyways.

.. and those fuckin rules are spot on.

Sometimes I care about being jacked on certain parts – and sometimes I don’t.

If one shops yards with any regularity, one will find that there are good and bad days regardless.

[Court M3]

i need to make it out to a yard soon

don't go to the one off 41 and Washington. total scam. Way overpriced and depending on the guy behind the counter money might go into his pocket. No offense but Hispanic guy and American owner that usually never there.

[mitch500]

i snagged a ICV for my e28, and a window regulator for my honda i had back in high school. i was a poor ass back then.other than that stuff is usually pretty cheap.

[myinfernalbmw]

fuses, relays, switches, other small shit. Once i took a window regulator, but that would be the biggest thing i've ever taken