5-finger in the yard

[Justin B]

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

[Jean]

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

That sucks.

[benDASHDASH]

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

[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.

[blueapplesoda]

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

[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

[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?

[Jscotty]

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?

It depends on the yard. I am sure that the insurance has to be pretty high for junkyards to stay in business. The yards in my area have certain stipulations such as no children will be allowed in the yard and they don't allow you to remove any parts from UNDER a car but other than that, I have only been to one yard that didn't allow customers past the counter. And I can only imagine that this was because the yard was not very safe and not very organized and customer friendly.

As far as that impound situation- Man oh man.. someone had to be highly pissed. What makes me nervous about one of the junkyards that I go to is that they park the newly arriving junked cars amongst the customer's cars. Whenever I go there I am always looking out for my car to make sure that some metal head knuckle dragger isn't hauling my car into the yard on his forklift tractor.

This also reminds me of a time when I was at this same junkyard but they were less organized back then and this was many years before the E30. I wen't into the junkyard to get some parts for the Buick and when I came out, this mexican guy was in the parking lot unbolting my rear bumper. I said, "Hey man! This is my car!" He said, "Look buddy, I don't want any trouble. You can have anything you want off of the front of the car. Just let me have anything I need from the back." Apparently he thought this was junked car because I had mismatched wheels and primer spots and a broken rear quarter window.. plus my paper temp tag was faded out.

[Sean]

lol the yard i went to wanted $50 for the kidneys. i lol'd.

I had two arms full of gaskets and such - $5 for the lot. I showed him the kidney grille, and he said he needed like $45 for it. I said - F THAT! LOL

[TerribleONE]

does anyone else ever pay the 2 dollars, not find any e30 parts, so get their 2 dollars back by throwing alternators, starters, brake rotors through windows?

..just wondering..

[MoparJ]

I do it all the time because I always seem to get radically different prices when I bring shit up to the window. If they don't know what part it is, it gets rung up under the overpriced "misc. category"...

A regular customer at my work walked out with a Buick Regal intake manifold strapped to his chest with spark plug wires; I've yet to see anyone beat that one.

[xLibelle]

Eric... we are going to have to talk some business in the next year!

Many of our yards are Pull-a-part or you-pull-it. Pay a fee and get what you can cary out the door.

The PAPs i go to in atlanta have the cop at the exit and have never checked my bags. Then again, i'm the whitest guy there, clean, totally looking like an upstanding citizen kinda white. I cary a tool bag with a few exterior pockets that can be easily filled and mixed with tools. i suppose my argument is i brought this with me looking for one just like it, lol.

but i'll walk out with anything that fits in my bag or pants. regulators, relays, nuts, bolts, switches, tps, etc.

[xLibelle]

teribleONE, we demolish cars trying to get "our" goods out of there. one time it started pouring rain so me and a friend hid in a volvo, nice car, pretty unmolested. we decided to see how much of the dash we could remove in least amount of time.
A fun fact for breaking shit: remove spark plug, smash off porcelain pebble, bust ANY car window with a light throw.

[nefarious7907]

I'm a puss I wont 5 finger

[Tree18is]

a 300zx hood scoop for my van, and a 12v tv for the ceiling..
pretty sweet shit if there is a fence trick.