There are some people, which believe that you should find salvage cars for sale, and after purchasing them, go straight to the scrap yard, or recycling center. I disagree! If you want to learn how to buy and sell junk cars for profit, you had better not believe that either.
Let us start with ease of obtaining. Obviously newer car parts will be easier to get than older ones. A friend of mine still has a 1975 Pontiac Lemans. To obtain parts for this car he has to literally go to junk yards and even online. No new car dealers keep parts beyond 10 years or so and even auto parts stores limit their inventory to cars under 20 years. A 30 year old vehicle is almost impossible to find parts for. Plus, if you can find the part, depending on where you get it, the cost could be anywhere from 20 to 100% over the original part cost. To say that late model car owners are taken advantage of would be a gross understatement.
Decide what you want to spend for the part before you go. This can keep you from overspending on your budget. Sometimes these junkyards have staff who will pull the part or get it off a shelf. If you know what you want to spend it will help you determine if you want it from this place at all. Also, find out what they will charge you for it if you find it and pull it yourself. You don’t want to go through the hassle only to leave it behind because their prices are out of reach.
Also, you can contact a junk yard, as to what car part you have so they can pick it up on your home. In some cases, the junk owner will even pay you for whatever useful things you would give him. They will inspect the parts first to make sure they do something about it in order to be resold. However, if the parts are just piece of crap, then the automobile scrap yards will be responsible in disposing them.
pull parts Work out deals with your local scrap yards in advance. The spot price for metal is generally the best price you can get with a large homogenous quantity of some metal. You’ll likely be bringing in many different types of metals and the quantities may be limited to what you find or what you can haul. Work out a deal where the yard gives you a good price in exchange for consistent influx of scrap metal.
However, there are some people who worry that they might not be able to sell their cars to these services because they don’t have a title for their car. This means, they don’t have any official documentation that proves they own the car. There are many folks out there who have come across this problem, and aren’t clear about whether or not they can sell their car to such services.