How to Sell Your Wrecked Car and Earn a Nice
Profit When a car is badly wrecked, the driver’s
auto insurance company often writes the vehicle
off as a total loss. The driver receives an
insurance payout for the fair market value of
the vehicle and typically puts the money toward
buying a new one....
Is it Safe to Pull Parts From Lemon Vehicles?
Lemon vehicles are automobiles that have a
significant defect that cannot be repaired. Cars
can receive lemon status based on state law or
federal law. At the state level, the vehicle
must have a defect that cannot be repaired in a
certain number of tries within...
What Happens to Tires When Car Frames Are
Recycled? Many people have seen photos or videos
of a vehicle recycler operating a car crusher.
In addition to being stripped of most
components, one thing that stands out about the
frames is that they don’t have tires on the
wheels. Where did the tires go? There...
Self-Service Auto Parts Vs. New Auto Parts: How
Do They Compare? Self-service auto parts are
vehicle components that drivers “pick and pull”
from automobiles in a junkyard using their own
tools. Because the components are as accessible
to consumers as new components, drivers
sometimes find it hard to choose one option over
the other. If...
Why Sell Your Car to a Junkyard Instead of a
Recycler? When you think of auto recycling, you
might envision stripped car frames being
compressed by massive car crushers, or imagine
crushed vehicle frames heading into an
industrial furnace to be melted down and
reconstituted into metal that’s easy to process.
One thing you may...
What Salable Parts do Wrecked Cars Contain By
the looks of them, most wrecked vehicles appear
to be worthless to any business but an auto
recycler. However, professionally operated
junkyards are known to find plenty of useful
auto components on a car that has been
“totalled” due to a major collision that crushes
at least...
When to Refuse a Junkyard’s Offer In many of our
blog entries, we point out the advantages of
buying auto parts from a junkyard, or mention
why you should sell your junk car in Temple to
one of our locations in the nearby area.
However, there also some situations in which
selling your car to...
Recycling a Vehicle: Cabin Components That Are
Recyclable When we talk about recycling a
vehicle, we often speak of recyclable auto parts
that are located on the exterior of the car,
such as the frame, tires, and body. These
vehicle components are some of the most commonly
recycled auto parts in the world, but there...
Self-Service Auto Parts: Why Get Your Hands
Dirty Removing Junkyard Parts? If you’ve ever
watched a professional mechanic at work, his or
her hands are routinely soiled with a variety of
engine fluids and accumulations of dirt from the
road that collect on the underside of vehicles.
This is similar to what it’s like to...
Four Reasons to Sell Your Wrecked Car to
Wrench-A-Part Most people choose to sell wrecked
vehicles for two corollary reasons: the
automobiles create an eyesore as they sit on
private property, and they are no longer of
value to their owners, except as salable salvage
vehicles. Whether you need to sell your wrecked
car to...
Selling Junk Cars in Killeen: Key Things to
Remember If you live in Killeen, Texas, and you
have a junk car you would like to sell,
liquidating it to a professionally operated
junkyard is a great way to earn a nice chunk of
money. Despite your vehicle’s bad condition, it
probably contains parts that can...
Recycling a Vehicle: Four Types Car Metal That
Can be Recycled Vehicle recycling has been in
practice since long before recycling became a
public obsession. In the early days, cars were
primary recycled for the metal they contained.
Today, non-metal components of salvage vehicles
are recycled, too, but metal continues to
comprise most of a...
Why Self-service Auto Parts are a Better Buy
than Pre-removed Parts Professionally operated
junkyards can be broadly separated into two
categories: junkyards that sell self-service
auto parts and junkyards that sell parts that
have already been removed for the customer’s
convenience. While buying parts from the latter
types of junkyards may immediately seem to be...
Auto Recycling: Why Sell Your Car to a Junkyard
Instead of an Auto Recycler? When they think
about selling a salvage vehicle, many
environmentally conscious drivers envision
liquidating the automobile to an auto recycling
company. However, there are some compelling
reasons to sell the vehicle to a junkyard that
participates in auto recycling instead of...
Auto Recycling: What Products Are Made From
Recycled Cars? Each years, nearly 100 percent of
end-of-life vehicles that are taken off the road
are recycled, providing recyclers with a variety
of options for repurposing vehicular components
in one form or another. While a vehicle recycler
typically doesn’t focus on creating new products
from the components,...
If you have a car you
are trying to sell,
there are many reasons
you may want to consider
selling it for scrap. It
may be old and not worth
much, maybe it was in an
accident and not worth
repairing, it may
require repairs that
aren’t worth...
If you are thinking of
selling your car, and
the need is not urgent,
it is prudent to wait
until the time of year
to get the most for it.
There are many factors
to consider, including
your car’s age and
condition, the reason
you are...
If you have started
working from home
recently, as many have
during the COVID-19
pandemic, you have
likely realized that you
don’t use your car
nearly as much as you
used to. Commuting is
one of the primary
reasons people need a
car. When...
