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Originally Posted by JWJ
The two times I've been to a pull-a-part I found half the parts I wanted just sitting in or near the cars.
Seems some other part dismantlers needed to remove the parts to get what they wanted.
(Or maybe they realized they were being greedy and left some for the rest of us...)
Is this a common situation for others?
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It happens to me alot.
Several years ago, I visited a local salvage-yard, searching for a righthand door mirror for my beater '84 Accord. Of course they were missing from all the similar Accords in the yard. As I was leaving, I spotted the correct Honda mirror on the front seat of an '88 Accord. Someone must have left it there when they saw it wouldn't fit an '88 model.
Last year, while hauling some Mercedes seats for a friend, I badly scratched the faux-wood dash-trim in my Nissan Altima. Looking in the same local yard for something else, I spotted an identical trim piece laying on the floor in an Altima. Was suprised to find it unbroken and in perfect condition. Looked like it had been pulled to get at the radio or climate controls. So often, when people remove trim to get at something, they just rip it out and destroy it!
More recently I found an excellent wood-trimmed ashtray, missing the lighter, to replace the gouged & chipped one in my '82 240D, as well as a good factory dash speaker, and some spare switches. All laying on the floor of a 300TD.
I found the missing lighter in a nearby Saab!
Happy Motoring, Mark