Salvaging a car. What would you keep?

[ebinmaine 67,464]

 

Sometime in the next few months Trina's mom's car will be going to salvage. Too rusty to keep on the road. 

 

2008 Pontiac G3 hatchback. 

 

Anything you can think of that I should keep?

 

 

Battery is too old for me to want.

Catalytic converter will be part of the salvage yard purchase price.

 

Engine and transmission are not anything I'm interested in pulling.

 

 

[ri702bill 8,318]

Tires?? Depending on the remaining tread, age of the tires, visable checking and sidewall cracks. There is a used tire place in town here that I have worked with over the years... He would dismount all 4 and install 4 mismatched junk tires that would hold air - for FREE - but had to sell him the 4 good tires.

Spare tire - you seen the prices they get of an OEM spacesaver tire and rim in useable condition at a salvage yard - $200 or MORE!!

 

Aluminum rims?? They bring a decent price at the scrap yard. If you do the above, maybe worth looking into.

The rest?? Keep the plates and throw away everything in between....  

Edited April 5, 2023 by ri702bill

[ri702bill 8,318]

1 hour ago, ebinmaine said:

Too rusty to keep on the road. 

Rust never sleeps and it ALWAYS wins...

[Beap52 811]

I wonder how it would be to list the car as a parts car on facebook marketplace or Craigslist?  I had to purchase the power seat adjuster unit for a 2007 Explorer and it's $250 delivered to my house from Ebay.  Mom went to the local dealership and they told her $1,500.00 parts and labor--if they could find a used one.  It's about less than a 2 hour job to remove seat and swap our power seat adjuster.  Might be some poor soul needing parts.

[Blasterdad 2,692]

Fuses & relays, head & brake light bulbs.

[WHNJ701 4,165]

It's a rotted out 2008 Pontiac, just do the world a favor and send it the crusher.  It's really not worth your time or effort to save little things that will never be used

[edgro 677]

Save the coins under the seat. When I was a kid we would go junkyarding looking for coins and other things left in cars 

[Pullstart 62,848]

Keep a couple doors just in case it gets hot out,,, you can roll ‘em down!

[SylvanLakeWH 25,553]

3 hours ago, ebinmaine said:

 

Anything you can think of that I should keep?

 

Nope.

 

[tunahead72 2,412]

2 hours ago, ri702bill said:

... Keep the plates and throw away everything in between....  

 

Definitely keep the plates, they make excellent shop decorations!

 

[Bill D 1,920]

1 hour ago, Blasterdad said:

Fuses & relays, head & brake light bulbs.

Definitely save fuses an relays. You can always find a use for 5 pin relays

[wallfish 16,995]

The jack and tire irons

Cut off some of those wire connectors both sides. They come in handy when building stuff that needs wires

Electric seat and window motors come in handy too.

[Handy Don 12,217]

How many salable parts do you remove before the scrap yard won’t take it?!

[Pullstart 62,848]

6 hours ago, ebinmaine said:

Catalytic converter will be part of the salvage yard purchase price.

I’m not sure if that is already negotiated, but often times here, a cat is worth as much or more than the whole vehicle.  It’s generally WELL WORTH the effort to crawl under and cut it off - even if you are taking them both to the same salvage facility.

[Pullstart 62,848]

Just now, Handy Don said:

How many salable parts do you remove before the scrap yard won’t take it?!

Here, there is no limit.  Auto body scrap is much different than wrecking / salvage yard though.  It may be worth clarifying which destined facility it’ll end up EB.

[ebinmaine 67,464]

1 hour ago, Handy Don said:

How many salable parts do you remove before the scrap yard won’t take it?!

It isn't that they WON'T take it. 

It's how much moolah you get for it.  

No cat. 

No battery. 

Any really popular or rare parts missing..

 

Intake dollar offer drops.  

 

 

[squonk 41,097]

The relays can be used on horses. The rest junk it.

 

This reminds me of a story. When I met my wife her brother was into buying and selling cheap cars without being a dealer. He gave her a 78 Plymouth Volare to drive with the anemic slant 6. She blew up the engine on the way to Cornell Vet hospital with her dog. She had to call a cab and the cabbie said the dog was cleaner then some of his other fares!  Well her brother wanted to salvage what he could off of the car so we rode down in his girl friend's 76 Chevy Step Side PU. He loaded the hood ,trunk lid, all 4 doors all the tires and seats into that truck. We looked like the Beverly Hillbillies going down the road. Of course he stored the parts at his Mother's house and there they stayed for like 5 years until she died. Then he still wanted to keep everything but his girl friend said no way! 

 

( when we cleaned out his mother's house I must have found 10 sets of used 60's Chevy spark plugs in cabinets. The Big plugs that took a 13/16 socket! )

Edited April 6, 2023 by squonk

[wh500special 2,176]

That’s a bit of a rare car.  

 

I had to look up what a G3 was.  Apparently only made in one model year (2009) and not many were sold before Pontiac was euthanized during the GM bankruptcy. 
 

With used cars being as expensive as they are and perhaps with some marketing moxie you might try leaving it intact and sell it. 
 

Or take the emblems off and junk the rest. 
 

I remember when I was a kid my dad drove our 1960-something dodge dart to the junkyard and sold it for $60.  To this day I think the junkyard paid too much. 
 

steve 

Edited April 5, 2023 by wh500special

[Herder 2,354]

Field Car... 

[ebinmaine 67,464]

25 minutes ago, Herder said:

Field Car... 

No fields where I live but I love the idea.  

[Pullstart 62,848]

Rock picker?

[ebinmaine 67,464]

8 minutes ago, Pullstart said:

Rock picker?

Another excellent idea but the vehicle is about 80,000 pounds too light and lacking an excavator arm. 

[CCW 1,295]

A couple of years ago my brothers and I had to clean out my parents' farm of 44 years.  Three dumpsters worth of stuff not worth the effort to try and sell.  Made me think and I am now off loading items we don't use and refuse to accumulate any more.  My kids didn't want their grandparents stuff and will not want ours.  If something happens to me I don't want my wife to have to deal with tools and equipment that I rarely used so I started selling off the bigger items.

 

Moral of the story - as we get older is adding more stuff that we most likely will never use worth.  If I really need something I'll buy it. Basement is starting to look cleaner as a result.

 

[Ed Kennell 38,166]

On 4/5/2023 at 8:45 AM, ebinmaine said:

 

 Trina's mom's car will be going to salvage. 

 

Anything you can think of that I should keep.

 

 

Memories that Mom may have.

[ebinmaine 67,464]

5 minutes ago, CCW said:

A couple of years ago my brothers and I had to clean out my parents' farm of 44 years.  Three dumpsters worth of stuff not worth the effort to try and sell.  Made me think and I am now off loading items we don't use and refuse to accumulate any more.  My kids didn't want their grandparents stuff and will not want ours.  If something happens to me I don't want my wife to have to deal with tools and equipment that I rarely used so I started selling off the bigger items.

 

Moral of the story - as we get older is adding more stuff that we most likely will never use worth.  If I really need something I'll buy it. Basement is starting to look cleaner as a result.

 

 

 

 

Absolutely agreed. We've been doing the same.

I have no desire to hang on to things that I don't believe have a legitimate possibility of future use... But on the flip side of the same coin, there have been multiple occasions over the last few years where I have wish I'd kept something instead of giving it away or tossing it.

Never been a big deal because it's always been to help someone else out.