Before anything else, make sure of the model and make of your car. Some models may require special parts and the part that you may find may not work with it just causing you to waste your time and money. If you’re not the one who’s restoring your vintage car, make sure that you bring it to a specialized auto repair shop to ensure that the work done will be satisfactory. These specialty shops have the proper knowledge and skills in vintage car restoration.
You see, that car may no longer be worth anything to a dealership, but when you scrap a car it suddenly becomes worth at least some cash in your pocket.
Another, idea that struck me. Heated seats. This is actually a fairly simple idea. You can pull them from any factory-equipped car. Try the local car and truck parts. Just make sure they can bench test them before you walk out the door. You’ll want the thermostat control with this, which can be mounted under the tail for adjustment while riding. Basically, heated seats are no more then a heating pad element that sits under the upholstery, a top the padding. The heating elements average about 100-140 degrees F. I did a search for “Upholstery Heating Elements” and came up with some good results and even installation instructions and tutorials for various seats. Both OEM and retro fits.
Today, everything is computerized with each item stored within a database. Every radiator, passenger seat, water pump, and stereo knob can be accounted for with a few clicks of a button. If you need to find a specific item, you won’t be forced to spend hours digging through a dirty lot. Just ask an attendant to check the database. What’s more, a lot of salvage yards are now connected through a network. If one location cannot find a component in their database, they can check the databases of other locations.
There are also various types of cheap auto parts available in the market which carries the same brand name but are made of cheaper material. Though they come in much lower prices, they can get damaged easily. Then you may have to spend a lot after fixing the problems. You can identify the cheap parts easily by their packaging and quality.
Sell your gold to a local refiner and smelter of precious metals since they will buy as much scrap as you can bring which they will smelt, refine and pour into blocks of gold. Alternatively, you can pay them to simply process your gold so that you can sell it on the open market. Sell your precious metals to other scrap dealers and other salvage yards in the area. Any scrap yard will buy the precious metal and pay the melted value of the gold. Determine whether you can sell your scrap gold to a jeweler or not, and if you could then see if the price they offer is reasonable.
Color test is one of the examples on tests regarding metal classification. All you have to do is to look at the color of the metal. There are a lot of categories available in some books and even online. When you have detected the specific color of a metal, there is a corresponding description on what metal it is. So you could really say that this is just a simple test since it only requires the sense of vision.
Locating some is simple enough, they can usually be found online or in the local yellow pages. There is almost always many salvage yards in each town or the surrounding areas regardless of how remote the location is.
Once the business gives up all hope, it throws the account into the salvage yard collections firm. You know the type. Instead of giving you money for old cars or cans or copper pipe, they give you money for your old accounts. Usually they net back around 10 cents on the dollar to your business. That is pretty good since they are making something out of nothing, right?
Most people will end up at their local dealership, ordering parts from them. That is of course, after the smelling salts kick in from passing out when shown the cost. It isn’t cheap to buy parts from any car dealership, let alone, Mercedes dealership. There are better places to buy your parts that will not send you into sticker shock.