Most specifically Ecology Auto Wrecking or Pick Your Part in Southern California. It cost a few bucks to get in so wanted to know how common these are or is it more likely not to have many in their yard? Thanks for any insight!

 

This belongs in the Regional subforums.

 

As a general answer for all over the country, I live in Florida and wish I owned a 92-95 there were so many parts available and salvage yards. Took four trips and a wreck just to get a good '97 front bumper.

 

Too bad. There's LOT'S in the yards over here.

 

There are a few but if you're a day late, the lazy vultures have picked it apart. All you're left with is a shell and damaged parts everywhere. Some people are too stupid to carefully remove the part they need. You may find the part but it's all bent up or non-usable due to these type of idiots.

 

Most common cars in the yards in MD and VA are the 92-00

 

lot of unmolested civics in yards here

 

Junkyards are all about timing especially on anything Honda

 

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I frequent junkyards.... I am a junkyard "fly" and what PartsHero said above is the exact truth.


Up here in salty Canada, EG's are becoming further and farther between...

 

So the answer is....there is no way to know at any given time.

 

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Marc is right.


One pick N pull I frequent actually goes to auction for Civics because the parts are such hot items...

But others only stock what comes in for scrap cash, or crashed cars that are not taken back from the insurance Co once the dust settles...

 

There's a lot of them in Phoenix, too.

 

where i am, we have none. tons of preludes though.

 

We have Pull-A-Part here in Charlotte. Its the most organized junkyard I've ever been too. You can go online at anytime and see what cars they have and what isle number they're on. The yard is organized by American makes each individually sectioned and one large section for all imports. You can go to a computer before you pay to get in to see if they have your car. The people are friendly and the prices are really cheap. It costs a dollar to go in for the whole day. That being said when I lived in Anaheim for two years I went to two of their Pick Your Parts. They had the worst organized, rudest people, expensive to get in, didn't know if they had your car til you got in, and the stupidest warranty process on earth (exchange only and if your part was defective you had to pay to go back in even if you didn't know if they had another car that you needed to get the part off of). Sorry had to vent.

 

I will agree with the pull-a-part chain. Most awesome place in terms of organization, but you never know whats left on the cars. Lately though, not a lot of EG;s very few teg's at the Columbia SC one. I love going to places that let you wander around and determine what you need. (I used to goto ones in PA, most of those were free to visit, but the cars were purely crap for external pieces--Can you say rust belt?)

 

Yeah you never know whats left on the car (that would be near impossible to maintain) but I have email notifications setup with them when a car model shows up it emails me.

 

We have crazy rays, I think it is any engine long block for 100$ and transmission for 75$. I have never seen a vtec B series but there are always Ds and LS long blocks there. Saw some guys pull a 5 series trans, probably made a killing on it since it was a very new BMW.

 

can you expand more on this? i have the worst luck with junkyards and have never seen anything worth writing home about..

 

Like said before you can show up and they have a fresh car 4 nice tires all lights and doors clean interior and two days later not sure what it might have been. It's hit or miss here have 2 pull a parts 25 min from me and another one that is well not organized but close. Sometimes there are 5-6 egs and sometimes 1.

 

If the car comes in with anything left of value it will more than likely be stripped by the vultures within the first day. If you want something you need to be that vulture. Especially with Honda distributors, ecus, interior parts, and ac compressors which seem to be the most popular at the yard I frequent.

 

Usually here there are tons of 4 door automatics.

 

Alot of people make their living by going to junkyards everyday and pulling valuble parts i.e Honda stuff, ford 9 inchers, and what not. Then selling on ebay/criagslist

 

Saved a ton on injectors for my buddies car at pick-a-part. All 4 injectors $60. We took them to a local carb/injection shop and had them ultrasonically cleaned and flow tested before and after. New o rings and plastic bits were also replaced for $60. Swapped out the old ones and what a difference(same size as original ones). It really smoothed out across the rpms for just $120.

 

is there a certain day of the week that's most common for new inventory to come through to junkyards?

 

Monday