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Finding a Salvage Yard
Looking for a salvage yard for lexus here in southern california, specifically for a 2005 LS430.
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Try junkmycar.com. No charge to pick up and dispose of the vehicle. (You also do not get anything for it.)
You can get rid of your car and help someone else at the same time! Good Luck!
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It's a fifteen year old Audi.
Few cars are more troublesome. The cost of buying and installing a good used engine (if you can find one)exceed the value of the car by a lot.
Then, what will break next?
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You'll find listings zip code, manufacturer, year, make and model. Most out of state yards will ship to you for cost of shipping. They are generally open M-F 8-5.
An ECU that might cost $600-$1000 at the dealer can generally be found for $50-$100 on c-p. I'm not talking about domestic stuff, either. Most of the computers I search for on behalf of this specialist are for Audi, BMW, VW, and Volvo. And I find them for $50-$75 in many cases. I think the most expensive computer I've ordered for him that wasn't a Porsche unit was $150 and it was for a BMW M5.
Owners of Euro cars should probably carry a spare ECU and a couple ignition coils at all times, similar to how in the 60's, you'd carry around spare radiator hoses and fan belts. They do go bad. And it's much easier to plug in a new computer on the side of the road than to wait for a wrecker, have it towed, have the dealer play with it for a week, then tell you it'll be $1300 for an ECU you could have bought for $75 plus $15 ground shipping on c-p. OUCH. Don't let it happen to you.
Barring that, someday I want to make a business out of pulling electronic bits out of cars in junkyards. I walked around my local PnP yard down in Waco yesterday in 105 degree heat. They had a few E34 BMW's, some Volvo 850-S70's, a couple of W126 Benzes, a Porsche 944 Turbo, several FC RX-7's, a '94 Prelude Si, etc. I can pull those ECU's for $32 each plus a 10% core and sales tax. Those ones I specified can sell for $75 to $100 or more on eBay. I could make a dandy little profit doing that and it would be fun for me to go play in the junkyard, come home, take a cold shower, then whip out the digital camera and list them for auction.
I just need to schlep a few hundred bucks from my wife to get started and then have enough time to wait for them to all sell before I pay back my wife for the first round and then use the profits to go out again to buy more. I earn those $10 payments on the ECU's as it is now, I need to keep better track of them so I can say, "hey honey, about that money I made from that guy with the ECU's, can I have that so I can make more on my own time?"