I was a young teenager when my parents decided to sell their house. Moving was an adventure for me and I looked forward to it. Most of my friends had already moved away from our neighborhood to parts unknown and many of the new neighbors were too young to have kids even close to my age. The school I was attending at that time had a wonderful educational reputation, but it was filled with kids on drugs. I saw enough of my friends and their older siblings die from doing drugs or drinking alcohol to know that I did not want to become a user. That made me a bit of an outcast at school, so I was glad to move on to greener pastures.
If you are trying to get cash for junkers another option is to break it up into parts. You can then list some of the parts for sale on eBay or Craig’s list. Make it easy on yourself and only accept bidders that are willing to come and pick up the items, unless they are small enough that you don’t mind shipping them. A couple of other cash for junkers options are to recycle the catalytic converter at a scrap yard as this will bring in some cash and sell the tires if they are in good enough shape to do so.
OEM parts are almost always more expensive than aftermarket car parts. That being said, the price difference often isn’t that large in many cases. This is important because OEM parts are generally better for your car than aftermarket parts. The issue is not the manufacturing process of the aftermarket car supplier, but the simply fact that the OEM part is made using the same molds and manufacturing process of the original part on your car. This means it should fit perfectly whereas the aftermarket part might not be an exact fit.
In the EFI market, you can always rely on brands such as Bosch, Delphi, Hitachi, Denso,Walker, VDO, Valeo, Standard, General Electric, Walbro, Pierburg, Bremi, Bougicord etc.
Auction Houses: Auctions are great places to search for used car parts. People dislodge the parts of their cars and these are sold online to the highest bidder. The best way to locate auctions for the car-parts you want is browsing for the auto part itself. If you search for car part auctions, you’ll get innumerable results. So first detect the part of the car you want and then verify which auction sites are listed for it. You may have to pay a small shipping charge unless you order a bulk.
If you do not know how to remove the parts yourself, then you can employ the help of someone who does. You may have to pay that individual, but you can still make money with the salvage yard phoenix parts of your car. Don’t just simply sell it for a few hundred dollars. You can certainly get a lot more out of it if you sell it piece by piece. Then again, if you don’t have the time to sell the parts, then it might be in your best interest to take it to a salvage yard and allow them to buy it off of you. They will rebuild the car and sell it as a whole under a salvage title in order to make a profit after buying it off of you and replacing the parts of it that were defective or damaged.
The first step towards recycling your car is finding a junk yard that is interested in buying vehicles for used car parts. Not all junk yards will pay for old cars, and you might as well make some money out of the transaction.
Don’t be greedy. Now, I understand that this is all about getting the top dollar for your car, but, there is a walk-away price for any business. Most salvagers are only willing to pay a little more then half of what they can make off the car. So, if your asking price is more then 65% of what they can make, then they will more then likely walk away from it.
Most cars that are brought to salvage car auctions are those taken from insurance claims. Usually, when a car gets involved in an accident, the insurance company evaluates the damage, if repairs go beyond the value assigned by the insurance company, then it is sold to salvage car auctions.