I've had enough of the Accord, and at this point it is going to cost more for me to fix than is worth my time or money. I'm about to sell it to the scrap yard.
What do you take off of/out of a car before that? I'm grabbing the floormats, stereo (head unit only), spare tire, swapping the new-ish battery, and I might siphon the gas depending on how much I have in there.
Anything else I should be grabbing that I'm not thinking of? Never done this before.
I was gonna run through a list of stuff but then I remembered that I'm excessive when it comes to stripping stuff down for scrap and normal people wont want to pull every last bit of copper and aluminum out.
Its not what you take but its what you put in before you leave, like a dookie or something.
Fuses, relays, bulbs,(interior and exterior), vacuum line, rubber grommets.
If you are going to have another car very similar to the one you are scrapping:
caps (gas cap, oil cap, radiator cap, etc), drive belts, spark plugs, and other tune up parts.
Taillights and headlights usually go for decent cash if they are OEM.
Having fairly recently moved halfway across the country and having sorted through 30+ years of crap that I at one time thought was important to pull off cars going to scrap my current policy is not a darn thing.
Fuses and relays definitely. Also the electrical connectors with a few inches of wire that you can reach without too much trouble.
Battery, radio, aftermarket or rare parts for IMMEDIATE sale. Thats it, unless you get the same thing to replace it with. Then, everything worth saving that is in better shape or a wear item.
Radiator and alloy wheels. Anything that can easily be stripped down to pure aluminum or copper.
Depends on if you are going to have another one, or one similar. If so, you should pull off a bunch of the stupid "always broke" plastic connectors that seem to infest almost every car these days.
What year is it? Does it have an OE radio?
Pretty much the only thing I've kept is wheels/tires, especially if the tires are pretty new. Otherwise it's not worth the trouble.
I once scrapped a car and forgot about all the change I filled up in the ashtray. It was a large malaise era ashtray too...
Bulbs, stuff i can easily sell or re-use
I usually go on ebay and check whats currently being bid on and whats sold for a decent amount in the sales history. It takes some of the guess work out of parting a car and gives you the rough going rate for parts.
It depends on how you're scrapping it. Lump sum or by weight? If you're getting $30 bucks for it strip everything you can sell. If you're getting weight, fill it with every peice of scrap metal you have, then fill everything you can with water. Then soak the seats down with water. fill the centre console and glovebox with gravel...
If you have a sawzall, the catalytic converter is a no brainer. Also, a quick search for sold listings on eBay for parts for your car might provide you with ideas for anything that's easy to pull, and worth enough money to deal with the hassle.
Bolts! Interior especially because they are shiny and new.
My 85 ltd is almost ready for the scrapyard, all thats left in it is rusty panels, the stock 7.5 rear diff and the dash. I pull everything i may ever need. Even if its a car i dont need parts off of right now, i may need them in the future!
I still have some of the nuts and bolts I stripped from cars when I was a kid. Before I run out, I am going to have to start stripping scrape cars again. It is incredible when you can pull a bolt out of a bucket that you know is dealer only and it fits perfectly.
Had my XJ project stripped to the gills for rebuild before parting out/ scrapping. Kept the wiring harness, more wire outta there than I'll prolly ever need.
APEowner wrote: Having fairly recently moved halfway across the country and having sorted through 30+ years of crap that I at one time thought was important to pull off cars going to scrap my current policy is not a darn thing. if this was a contest you would be the Winner! < I still have enough to build another car into a performance Type redo with what I will have even after the Vette, If you don't have a building and some Land just get what can be sold seperate to the same scrap yard, the cat, radiator(knock off the plastic ends) and other alloy's. just don't get started scrapping,It's a Life long Addiction. /blockquote>
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