Boneyard raiders

[gearheadE30]

Local place close to me(spokane at school) has a euro only place, but its massively overpriced and they won't let you go outside to look at the cars, and they pull off any parts of value ahead of time and put it all on shelves so they overcharge for it all. They get all of the bmw's so there are never any at the other pick and pulls.

We have a very similar place down in Indianapolis. Sometimes prices are very good, but they tried to charge a friend of mine $100 for sealed beams...

[Kerrath]

They make their killing on non car-educated people I'm sure. There's a volvo specific place near my house and they wanted like 200 bucks for a MAF when my dad could have just gone to pick a part and picked one up for 40. That was years ago, maybe their prices are lower now. HAHAHA.

[kronus]

People actually steal used spark plugs from junked cars?! I don't believe it.

fixed

[550]

Yeah, it is low. First off, they are garbage plugs. Secondly, 94 cents new for a cheap plug which you are stealing anyway. GOD I had an engine lined up for my newer car and some jerk went and pulled the plugs within the week I found it to when I went to pull it.

Lame.

[lifeiskaos]

Those are the ones it's fun to get into. I smuggled kronus and I into a few.

where are places like that in socal??? never seen one with that many e30's

[Lames]

I like it best when you see your hometown junkyard make it into the FS threads. As someone locally is ripping the cars apart then selling them via the boards before you even have a chance to get anything, and yes they ship, so now your local yard is getting picked over by people across the US. Or if you wanted a part they already bought it and are willing to sell it to you for a fee of course. The part and what they paid, what they think ripping it out was worth and some kind of amount they think they are owed. That kind of shit really pisses me off, even more when E30's are way hard to come by.

[Scotaku]

^^^ I've caught assholes posting about local yards and what they're stealing planning to resell.

I share the identities of these thieves and they don't even say thanks. At best I get a blank stare. I offered to write them a ridiculously easy year/make/model lister for a free blog/website so they could draw more business. That earned me a bewildered look like I'd just landed in a spaceship. Even though few others obey it, I am careful to follow the hood up/no engine, windows shut/good interior rules.

I give two craps about my resources, but sometimes it's just not worth caring. At the very least, they've seen me enough they don't have me empty my tool pack every time I leave now. Heck, I could probably make a buck hanging around with tools just like the guy with the cutting rig on wheels.

[h82crash]

Right now there's a set of junk/torn sport seats on CL and the guy wants $200 for them, and $100 for a cracked dash.
I don't really know what the guy who's ripping out the cluster is looking for. ODO gears, I guess, all the speedos are pulled but also tossed back in the car.

[brandon11130]

My yard preps the cars before putting them out in the yard, Myself and e30turboboy go spy and see whats going out, we know the yard guys so they let us know when. we go as soon as it hits the ground and get what we want. We scored TONS of great stuff, 2 100k runing m50's for $100 each.

whats wrong with everyone being an entrepreneur? If i see some one selling a part for $5 bucks that I could sell for 55 bucks I buy it. If you saw a 50 dollar bill on the ground on the ground would you walk past it and say " oh i dont want to be an asshole" ?

If you want to get the good parts network and wake up early

I like it best when you see your hometown junkyard make it into the FS threads. As someone locally is ripping the cars apart then selling them via the boards before you even have a chance to get anything, and yes they ship, so now your local yard is getting picked over by people across the US. Or if you wanted a part they already bought it and are willing to sell it to you for a fee of course. The part and what they paid, what they think ripping it out was worth and some kind of amount they think they are owed. That kind of shit really pisses me off, even more when E30's are way hard to come by.

Let me guess... Your the type that hates walmart?

[george graves]

Brandon - mind if I parse what you said? Of course you don't.

My yard

I assume that you mean a local yard - not your own.

preps the cars before putting them out....we scored TONS of great stuff...whats wrong with everyone being an entrepreneur?

Nothing! hats off. You are a true entrepreneur. Congrats.

If i see some one selling a part for $5 bucks that I could sell for 55 bucks I buy it.

Again - hats off to you. You are smart. We've never thought of that. WOW, you need to work on wallstreet. Do you have your series seven? Don't answer yes. Too bad Enron is defunked.

If you saw a 50 dollar bill on the ground on the ground would you walk past it and say " oh i dont want to be an asshole" ?

In my doctors office or in a car park? Kinda depends. Don't you think?

What if you and I had a beer and I dropped a $100 bill. Since you only know me from online it would be ok to keep it?

If you want to get the good parts network and wake up early

And be sleazy.

/rant

[h82crash]

+1000000

There is nothing wrong with being an entrepreneur, why not do it right? Say, get a business license, lease a building, track down wrecks, dismantle and catalog.

I know, let's support the bills that are being presented in legislature that would prevent us from working on our own cars. We don't really know what we're doing anyway.

On second thought, why don't you leave the junkyard for those of us who need the parts to fix our cars.

If you should compare yourself to Walmart, the you should offer that part you picked up for $5, at $5.50 and have an unlimited supply.

[StereoInstaller1]

41 posts and no one has bitched about what sleazeballs the yards are these days...75% the cost of new most of the time, shitty "dismantlers" do as much damage as a fucking hailstorm, etc.

[Kerrath]

shitty "dismantlers" do as much damage as a fucking hailstorm, etc.

I love that.

h82crash - Got an article about those bills?

[gazellebeigem3]

r3v, home of the "redistribution of junkyard parts" thread.

If you depend on the junkyard to keep your car running, you need to ride the bus. Otherwise, stop bitching about cheap junkyard parts being first come, first serve.

And i already expressed my anger with wanton destruction, this is a different matter.

[h82crash]

Its been awhile since I've seen anything on the bill here in Ca. Kragen Auto Parts had a campaign to defeat the bill. I think the last one did die. What's better is there is a federal bill that has been introduced to protect our right to repair our own vehicles.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-2694