A junk yard in Chicago IL is also known as a salvage yard or wrecker’s yard. Whatever name it is called, it is a place where cars and other vehicles which no longer function for whatever reason are taken. There are specific junk yards for boats and planes but these are not common, most junkyards are designed for the disposal of vehicles that have been written off due to a wreck or no longer run due to old age and negligence.
Junk yards are frequently local businesses; large cities will have a good number of them. The junk yard gets the vehicles in a host of different ways; they can buy wrecks from the owners, insurance companies or from municipalities that collect vehicles that have been abandoned on the streets. In most cases, the junk yards have their own vehicles that they use to pick up the cars; these vehicles can be conventional tow trucks or specialist flat bed trucks. Even if they do not own their own tow trucks, it is easy to contract with local companies that specialize in towing. Regardless of how a vehicle ends up in the junk yard in Chicago IL , it is inventoried. The make of the vehicle, along with the model and year are logged along with comments on the vehicles overall condition.
When the vehicle arrives it is dismantled and any parts that are reusable on a similar make and model are kept for resale. Once the useable components have been taken off, the remaining metal is crushed, shredded and sent to the steel mill for recycling. There actually is not much more than 25% of the vehicle that is sent for recycling, there are many parts that can be resold including doors, mirrors, complete light assemblies, windshields and even complete engines and transmissions.
Junk yards are an ideal place to go when someone is looking for a very inexpensive way to source components that he needs to repair his car. In many cases the junkyard has a complete inventory of all the parts that have been stripped and warehoused, in other cases the customer is free to go into the junkyard, find what he wants, remove it himself and pay for it.
Frank’s West Side Auto Parts, Inc. has a large inventory of used auto parts. It is the junk yard in Chicago IL that carries all major mechanical components as well as cosmetic parts for your car.
