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corporate ownership has ruined my favorite junkyard! - JB3 - 08-24-2011
1.5 years ago-
30-40 vintage MBs on site, fairly complete apart from what people have taken.
also (unrelated to diesel world, but important to me) 30-40 of the same year range work van I drive.
Went today-
Place has been purchased by a national recycling chain, office and processing facility vastly improved.
-every single vintage MB crushed
-every single my type of van, save 1, crushed
new cars lose rims before they even get in the yard, 25 newer MBs in there, not a single rim or lug! I went in trying to find long bundt lugs for my 115
Nothing has any rims on it anymore, and they are all sitting on the ground. Guy says they recycle all the aluminum rims off the old cars. I am pissed off, have to order lugs off the internet now.
RE: corporate ownership has ruined my favorite junkyard! - Captain America - 08-24-2011
Thats gay. I love going, looking at everything and now there is only the '94 toyota piece of shit cars left....
RE: corporate ownership has ruined my favorite junkyard! - smoke026 - 08-24-2011
YEP..Hope that does not happen in my city. The new cars that are being dropped off are stripped from their( Wheels, Radiators, Oil coolers,Cats, Air bags, etc) before they are even made available to customers.
It is filled with a bunch of plastic stuff from Hondas/Toyotas etc.
The good thing for me however, is that not a lot of folks have Diesels here in Miami, so u can grab things at basically a (Steal) price.
Today out of the several things that I freshly ripped off an 83 300D, I got its full climate control for like $15, this things sell regularly for like $150 a piece used on ebay. I could have had it for like $5 if the owner of the yard would have not noticed while I was cashing out that it was off a Benz. Still I can guarantee u he did not know its true value.8)
I think Im gonna begin to stock up on things!