Every car owner will eventually face this moment—the day when it’s time to say goodbye to a vehicle. It may have been the reliable first car that helped you through college, the family van that endured countless school runs and road trips, or the hardworking ute that served your business for years. It may be for accident damage, a mechanical failure or simply age but at some point a vehicle becomes impractical to keep. We are experienced Car Wreckers Perth specialists and we see these situations daily, assisting vehicle owners responsibly dispose of unwanted cars. While the handover of keys can feel like the end of the road, it is often the start of a new life for many reusable parts and materials.

We at WA Auto Parts know that you’re not done yet; you’re just getting started. We’ve been Perth’s top auto wrecker for more than 15 years and have seen thousands of cars come through our yard. It might look like a place where cars go to die from the outside. But we hope you’ll think about it from our point of view: as a place where the legacy of a car is honored, its risks are lessened, and its worth is renewed.

You’ve relied on your car long enough to get you back on the road, so now let us help you make its last moments look professional, respectful, and with an unwavering commitment to the environment. It’s time to pull back the curtain and show you how the sausage is made. This is what happens to your car after you drop it off at our WA Auto Parts for service.

1) Intake and first evaluation

As soon as you walk through the gates of our home in Perth, Western Australia, the adventure begins. Your number one is always the most important thing, whether it’s towed in or driven there one last time. We know this is the hard part, but our friendly staff is here to greet you, help you, and make things as easy as possible.

First, we take care of the paperwork. It’s important to let the world know that we’re doing things right. We can help with the legal transfer and deregistration. Thank you all for taking on this duty! No more loose ends, and no more worrying about the future.

After the usual small talk, our judges need to get to work. That’s where our team’s 15 years of deep industry experience comes in. What they see is more than just a car; it’s a complicated puzzle of possibilities. C imports or domestics, model year 1992 and up, whether they run or not. Why? We have cars from Japan, Europe, Australia, Korea, and the US, from cheap imports to V8 muscle cars, as well as cars that are good for people with L or P plates.

Our assessor walks around the car, using their trained eyes to look at every part of it and figure out its potential. Is the engine in that Toyota Hilux still running well after it got hit on the nose? Are the doors and leather seats in that Holden Commodore any good? Would this Hyundai i30 be sending another car thousands of kilometers down the road? This first impression is very important for how we can get the most money out of your car—money that we can give to you and your community through fair prices or cheap used parts.

Depollution—”Making it Safe”

The vehicle is then put in our specially designed depollution bay after all the bolts have been removed and no parts have been taken out. This is also where most of the environmental risk is, and as a demolition man, it’s our biggest risk. Your car is a beautiful piece of art and an engineering marvel. But it’s also a machine full of fluids and other things that you never want to get out into the environment in Western Australia.

Our team gives this process the care it needs by using specialized tools and containment facilities. We catch the following in a safe way, in an orderly, clean, and by-the-book way:

Fuel, Oil, and Coolant: All of the oil and coolant from the diesel engine was drained into airtight metal drums.

More Fluids: We won’t take brake fluid, transmission fluid, or wiper fluid anymore either.

The Battery: Lead and acidic fluids are inside car batteries. We carefully take them apart and send them to licensed recyclers who can safely get their contents back.

Ozone-Depleting Gasses: Certified professionals collect the cooling refrigerant from the A/C to make sure that those gasses don’t get out.

Other Hazards: We look for and get rid of other dangerous things, like mercury switches (which are found in older cars), to make sure that all airbags that haven’t been deployed go through a safe process.

This strict process makes sure that the car won’t hurt our land or water when it moves on to the next step. It’s a clean shell that can give back its treasure without hurting the earth or costing anything.

Step 3: “The Precise Harvest”—Taking Apart and Collecting

And this is where things start to get interesting after the car has been locked up. That’s why our yard is the best place in Perth to buy used auto parts. Our crew are artists, and they do the breaking bad art at our Dismantling Station. Not only are they tearing cars apart, but they are also going through them with a purpose and a plan to get the parts that can be used again.

They are street-smart knowledge workers who travel in a tribe that knows everything there is to know about cars and trucks from all over the world. For example, they know exactly where the alternators are on a Ford Falcon or which bolts hold a headlight assembly in place on a Mazda 3. They also know how to take off side mirrors from Mitsubishi Tritons without damaging them.

This “careful harvest” is highly systematic:

THE DRIVETRAIN:Now let’s look at the engine and transmission to see what makes this car go. These are often the most expensive, but they can also be the lifesaver donor transplant for another car.

Of course, there are the main parts, like the starter motor, alternator, radiator, steering rack, suspension members, and brake assemblies that give the picture depth.

Body Panels and Lights: If the doors, hoods, and trunk lids are in good shape, the bumpers and guards will be taken as well. Headlights and taillights: When they are brand new, headlights and taillights can be very expensive, so they are a must-have.

Interior Parts: This includes whole seats, but we also offer interior parts that let you make the biggest difference in your home.

Every item is checked before it leaves the factory to make sure it is of the highest quality. Then, the maker gets ready and tests it to make sure it meets their original standards. After that, it gets a part number and is added to our huge database, which is all done by computer.

Because we pay attention to every little thing, we can proudly say that we have the largest selection of used car parts for sale at the lowest prices ever. By calling us at (08) 9358 1392 Monday through Friday between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. WST, you can access this huge collection of great, hand-picked truck parts. We can tell you right away if we have what you need, so you don’t have to waste time and money making a part.

Step four: the very important change from car to commodity.

The cannibals take everything useful, leaving you with an empty metal shell. And even now, its journey is not over. This monster is all potential; it’s crouched here, waiting for the day when it becomes raw material.

First, the shell is taken off of the big pieces that aren’t metal, like the dashes or wire looms that held them up. After that, it is taken to the yard’s strongest piece of equipment. Inside is a huge hydraulic crusher that turns the car into a rectangle that can be thrown away.

Next, the crushed car goes into a huge industrial shredder. And with a loud crunch that shakes the ground, giant hammers spinning in the air break everything into little fist-sized pieces in just a few seconds. At the other end, a mix of metal and everything else comes out. This is where the real alchemy takes place. This flow goes through a number of separatrices:

Giant magnets pull all the iron and steel (ferrous metals) out of the stream.

The Eddy Currents make a magnetic field so strong that it pushes the non-ferrous metals out and sends the lighter, more valuable aluminum to another container.

Air and water jets are used to screen, sift, or filter out things like textiles, plastics, embers, and other unwanted contaminants.

At the very end of that line, where a car would sit, there is a neat stack of raw materials, mostly high-quality steel and aluminum, that foundries and mills are waiting to buy.

In conclusion, that’s one way to get your car to start.

So, what’s wrong with your car? It was given a new job. Its heart could be racing as it drives through Perth’s main streets. Someone’s accident damage would probably have been easy and cheap to fix on its door. The nuts and bolts on some other project’s machine might keep it together.

And what about the steel frame that held it up? It is being shipped right now to be melted down and turned into a load-bearing beam in a new building, or maybe even a part of someone’s refrigerator or even the parts of a brand-new car—recycled from start to finish.

That’s the history of WA Auto Parts, and that’s what we see every morning when we wake up. We aren’t the end of the road for a car; we’re the beginning of life again, in your next favorite coffee table. We are an important part of a circular economy because we try to get as much value as possible from our trash and leave as little waste behind for our community, all at a reasonable price.

When you buy WA Auto Parts, make sure you make the right choice. It’s no surprise that you trust a professional with more than 15 years of experience. You are choosing a team that cares about your car’s history and its future.

We want to buy your junk car for cash. Call us today! We’ll come pick it up and pay you cash on the spot for the car, no matter what condition it’s in. Call the guys at WA Auto Parts at (08) 9358 1392.

Every car has its story. It’s visible in the way the driver’s seat has shaped to fit its owner, the coffee stain lurking on the passenger seat, the familiar radio presets, and the small dents and scratches earned over years of daily use. These details tell a story of daily commutes, family road trips and dependable service. But all vehicles reach the end of the road. It might just stop suddenly on a Perth highway, or gradually become unreliable as age and wear take their toll. As trusted Car Wreckers Perth experts, we have seen so many vehicles come to this point and understand the struggles owners face when deciding what to do next. It may seem like the end of the road, but a lot of the vehicles still have a lot of value in parts that can be reused and materials that can be recycled.

For others, such a revival is fatally short-lived. A wreck, or a broken car, feels like an issue, like an eyesore. But here at WA Auto Parts, we see things differently. In our case, this is not the end; it’s an amazing new beginning. It’s the start of a cautious, interesting and environmentally crucial process.

Welcome to WA Auto Parts, your leading used auto parts buyer, seller and wrecker in Perth, Western Australia. For the last 15+ years we’ve built not just a thriving business, but also one of the major building blocks of our resilient community. We also challenge you to look past the “wreck” and with us take a peak behind the scenes of what this car became in it’s gut: GOLD… An unfathomable process for recyclable parts and scrap materials! That, too, is the unfolding journey we see daily.

Stage 1: Arrival and Check-In

It begins the moment a truck eases into our bustling Perth yard. It might come in trailing the stink of a crash with jagged, warped frame tubes; it could arrive under its own power at the hands of an owner who treated it well for years before finally losing interest in a trusty old but outdated steed. Each has its own story, and the first thing we need to do is listen to it and treat it with respect.

Our team, our professional one in person, is meeting the owner, walking them through something we’ve make easy and seamless. All the paperwork reporting and dealing with all relevant bodies, from proving your ownership of the car to emailing you a receipt of deregistration is done so entirely legally in under 24 hours. We appreciate that parting with a car, and especially one with its own story can be quite emotional for some people so we look to make the whole process as easy and stress-free as possible.

The initial examination begins once your car is in our hands, and the older more experienced pros begin assessing. This is where, in fact, our 15 years of history start to matter. Our crew doesn’t behold a wrecked car; it sees nested tiers of potential. They can look at a quite new Japanese SUV, a slightly older Australian 4WD, something like one of the vans available in Europe with all the gear on it, a fairly plain well priced Korean car and of course that big Yank truck and work out what they are worth in no time flat!

Is the block still good? Is the transmission viable? How are the alternator, starter motor and so forth? Are the body panels, doors and lights salvageable? It’s that initial triage process of when a car arrives with us and directing its journey through our facility to ensure we’re able to seek the best possible value recovery from it, for both our customers and for the planet.

Step 2) THE DE-POLLUTION BAY – CLEAR THE THREAT

Well before a single salvageable part is removed from any of the over 50,000 vehicles we process each year, every vehicle that comes into our yard makes its first stop at what we consider to be the most important station in our yard: The Depollution Bay. That’s the very minimum requirement of our environmental pledge. A car in fact is awash with life-giving fluids, all of them life-sustaining for the operation of your car but some also potentially fatal if not treated properly within our WA conditions.

This is where our techs are working with the skill of microsurgeons. This is no messy drain-training operation. It’s a tidy, clean process too that will save the dregs of your vape juice in a manner that won’t destroy you. We drain the:

Fuel: Gasoline and diesel are carefully siphoning into approved, safe tanks.

Engine Oil & Trans Fluids – The engine and transmission fluids are drained, then stored for collection by select recycling entities.

Coolant (Antifreeze): This toxic liquid is captured so that it won’t end up in the land or water.

Brake & Steering: All lines are totally empty.

But it doesn’t end there. We remove the car battery, made with lead and corrosive acid, and send it to licensed recyclers who can reclaim its precious parts. We also meticulously comb through, and extract parts with mercury — such as old car switches — and disarm airbags, which are packed with chemical propellants.

“And that degree of depollution is our promise to Perth and the environment. It’s a firewall ensuring that the legacy of a car is one, not of waste or environmental contamination but rather value and repurposing.

Stage 3: The stripping station – Kind pickture pfection

Now that the car is clean and sound, it’s time to harvest. This is where WA Auto Parts really leaves all the other wreckers in Perth behind. Busy beeLike a busy little worker bee in its hive, we set about our car-dismantling station and begin the process of removing the vehicle limb by limb.Our head technicians don’t waste any time when it comes to tearing that car down; salvaging every clean part and make it work for us!

This is an expertise that requires a profound, hands-on understanding of the auto engineering. Our professionals service a broad selection of makes and models- from European vehicles to Japanese, American, Korean and Australian automobiles including SUVs 4WDs trucks vans wagons & utes. This gives them the know-how and the perspective they need to figure out what matters most, whether that’s the high-performance engine that goes into a Ford Ranger or the premium headlight assembly used in a Volkswagen Golf or even just the reliable transmission installed in a Toyota Camry.

The process is strategic:

Valued Bits and Pieces: W e carefully remove the “heart and soul” of the vehicle which starts with our strong running engine and transmission. These are the core parts and can give a new life to another vehicle. The recovered, metal-filling catalytic converters are also valuable.

Mechnical/Electronic Parts: We haul off the extras alternator, starter, radiator, a/c compressor and brakes then send them in for recycling.

Body & Interior: Finally we recycle body panels, doors, bumpers headlights and taillights, mirrors and interior items including seats dashboards and radios.

And — critically — “salvaged” is not the same as “dumped in a giant pile.” Each portion of meat we extract is the result of a strict quality control program. We carry out a full cleaning, inspection & test to ensure the product is in complete working order. It is then given a traceable inventory number in our large storage facility and shipped to you.

This is the perfectionism that lets us stand behind the finest used car parts in all of Maywood and give you them at the best price there is. So when they call us on (08) 9358 1392 and ask for a certain part, “We can look it at up in our system right away and check its quality then get it here for them. That’s our business in a nutshell: offering a smarter, healthier, more sustainable alternative to buying new.

Phase 4: The Final Frontier (or, As An Alternative, That Breakdown) — Hulkbro gets broken down later into fodder.

After my mechanics have picked over all of the usable parts, the car becomes nothing but an empty shell — its hulk. But it too is hardly waste. This is where the real hard-core recycling gets under way, grinding down every last shred of the car into materials that can be melted or otherwise converted into a new something else.

Non-metal parts where possible are removed after the hulk is washed, including foam in seats or rubber window seals. There, it is run through what is essentially the most powerful washing machine in our yard: the crusher and shredder. In a display of brut force, the entire frame is flattened and then feed into a shredder, which rips it to shreds about the size of fists in thousands of jagged metal chunks.

It seems a pretty frantic conclusion but is in fact the route to that ultimate bright processional step. As the cut pieces flow through a series of conveyor belts, they pass through a suite of advanced separation methods:

Powerful Magnets: Huge magnets remove all steel (a ferrous metal) from the flow.

Eddy Currents: The remaining material that has filtered through is subjected to a magnetic field and non-ferrous metals will be rejected knocking the useful aluminium away into another storage bin.

Floatation/Air Separation: Only the lightest particles – mostly plastics and fibers in a fraction labeled auto shredder residue – are separated using air jets and wet flotation techniques.

The other sorted materials (a stack of high-quality steel, a mountain of pure aluminum and so on) can then be sold to mills or refineries, where they are melted down and recycled into new goods. The steel from an old sedan may become rebar in a new high-rise, and the aluminum in its engine block could emerge as part of a new soda can or even another car coming off an assembly line.

Conclusion: A Closed-Loop System

We issue the receipt in silence.”) From over here, following this broken car through our gates until it’s shredded back into raw materials again, seven minutes down a thin metal tube; all of sleek green transit and thundering recycle machinery screams both creativity and accountability. Where once there was one vehicle, now there are two important but distinct product flows.

One of the sources?The first of these rivers floods our WA Auto Parts store shelves with a floodplain-like supply of quality-assured, recycled parts; keeping Perth vehicles on the road, saving our customers money “ and perhaps most importantly of all: reducing production’s colossal environmental cost.

The second stream is a flow of raw materials ready to be recycled back into global industry without going through the destructive process of mining and energy-intensive refining from fresh ore.

That’s the circular economy as a living example. It’s a closed-lib system — nothing is trash, and everything could have been found useful in another time. And as a family-owned wrecker in the system for over 15 years, we’ve been proud to be a part of it.”

So the next time you need a part for your car, or it’s time to say goodbye to an old vehicle, we hope you think about this adventure. We hope you will choose the path of sustainability, affordability and responsibility.

So for a quote on your car or to find that special used part from our big selection, simply call the friendly WA Auto Parts team today on (08) 9358 1392.

Ever wondered what happens to a car at the end of its life? When the engine stops, the tyres no longer turn, and many people imagine it ending up in a forgotten junkyard, parting with a vehicle that has been part of their daily routine for years. But the reality is very different. At WA Auto Parts, our experienced Car Wreckers Perth team views every end-of-life vehicle as an opportunity for renewal. Professional dismantling and recycling processes recover usable parts, reuse valuable materials and keep waste out of landfill. It’s a practical example of how responsible vehicle recycling supports a more sustainable future and protects the Western Australian environment.

WA Auto Parts is one of the leading car wreckers in Perth, provides alternative for buying new or second-hand parts. We are environmental caretakers, transforming end-of-life vehicles into glorious sources of reusable and recyclable products. And it’s not just business for us, it’s a commitment to a greener world. Each and every car that comes into our yard is the beginning of an amazing recycling adventure, and it’s one we feel all Perthites need to know about.

It’s the tale of how car wreckers, those unsung heroes of motordom, are leaving their mark. It’s also a story about how your legacy car can have not one, but another life, and then a third or fourth — doing good on the planet for generations. So buckle up as we draw back the curtain and let you see the ridiculously amazing enviro legs we stand on every single day.

Pillar 1: Waste Prevention – Good for What Ails Out-of-Control Landfills

Think about the number of cars we drive on our roads. Now, picture instead that after each one of those, we disposed of it in a landfill at the end of its life. The environmental impacts would be catastrophic. Our landfills would bulge with mangled steel, non-degradable plastics and poisons that could survive dense tribal brew to become our eternal monument to instance of the earth.

This is where the first and foremost important part of what we do here at WA Auto Parts becomes apparent. Modern cars are a complex mass of increasingly intricate components made from an enormous range of different materials. When a car is simply junked, all of that valuable material is lost forever.” Yet with our rigorous recycling regimen, 90% of a vehicle’s weight can be reclaimed. It’s staggering to think that much waste material is being diverted from our valuable landfill space.

“There are countless thousands of cars that reach the end of their working life here in Western Australia every single year. Below, we share why you can be proud to recycle a car when you use a professional car wrecker. The steel frame, the aluminum engine block, the copper wiring, the plastic dashboard the glass windows — almost everything can start over somewhere else.

This is a role we take very seriously here in Perth. Not only are our staff all professional in any type of vehicle body work, but they absolutely live for anything with wheels and the sound of an engine – they love it.Whether you think your beaten old car is ready to be scrapped, we can see something worth saving. We are aware that as we dismantle these autos systematically, it is not only benefiting space but minimizing our community’s environmental presence. It’s a way, tactile and practical, to address an elephantine global problem — and it’s happening hereB in our plant.

Pillar 2: Saving Of Resources – Preservation Of The Scanty Wealth Of Our Planet.

The inputs that feed the making of a car do not, after all, magically appear. They are extracted from the earth during mining and drilling that often harms the broader environment. The mining of iron ore to make steel, bauxite for aluminum and petroleum for plastics is extremely energy intensive and environmentally damaging — it accounts for nearly 10 percent of Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions, uses large amounts of water and can result in habitat destruction due to deforestation and soil erosion.

And that is where our second green arm at WA Auto Parts excels: We conserve. For every piece that we save and every kilogram of metal that we recycle, we eliminate the need to mine for new, virgin materials.

Consider steel, which accounts for most of a car’s weight. Producing steel from recycled scrap uses 76% less energy than that of raw materials such as iron ore. But that’s more than just a number; that is a steep cut in the greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change. By contrast, recycling aluminum is an even more impressive endeavor: It requires a crushing 95% less energy to make aluminum from recycled material than it does by mining bauxite.

I’ve tossed them out here to ride down the compost and this place is a veritable landfill of junkIt’s almost as if people have forgotten they can use this useful material we’ve already produced again, but you’d like I suppose to call us to see if we have model so-and-so motor part in stockWe still have itWhat makes that shockingThe fact that there are still unenlightened folks out there who don’t appreciate just how much our modern world has been masticating the planet, chewing up what is practically stuff for little purpose and letting it sit there and damn near destroy our environment marginRight=25 …..AnywayI’ll proofread when’ “Jesus had broad definition of marriage..” ~BY DENNIS PALUMBO*Gravity technical difficulties: Some pain does segue well without transition to certain thoughts! When you bring in your old junker or buy‑a‑great-part at our shop – straight forward helping the long-term save game. The alternator you pull at the junkyard for your daily driver is one build of an alternator that didn’t get built from raw materials. Part of it could find its way into a bridge or the washing machine or even to create a new car.

We specialise in cars, trucks, 4wd’s & SUV’s for most makes and models, Both imported and local including Japanese, Korean, European Australian or American vehicles as well as nearly all the big brands like Holden Ford Toyota Nissan Chrysler Jeep Dodge Daewoo Daihatsu BMW Merc Mazda Audi Porsche Subaru Honda Suzuki Peugeot Pontiac Volvo Volkswagen Styker Ssangyong Saab Aston Martin Bentley Alfa Romeo Lexus Renault GMC Fiat Alfa Romeo Range Rover Landrover Barina Caprice Commodore VS VT VR VU VX VY VZ VE SV6 SSX omega SSV HSV X5 X7 3series 318i E30 E36 and a few more. “This ‘one-stop used auto parts shop’ is not just a convenience, it’s the collection that has been saved. It’s a physical expression of the circular economy in action, one used car part saving the planet’s limiting resources at a time. So if you’re looking for a specific part give us a call on (08) 9358 1392. You can also purchase it at the best price and support environment conservation.

Suggestion 3: Polluting the Pastures: Safeguarding our Soil and Water

A car is more than its metal and plastic. It also serves as a reservoir for the cocktail of chemicals and fluids required to operate it, though that can be highly toxic if not disposed of responsibly. Motor oil, trans fluid, antifreeze coolant, brakefluid and battery acid are highly toxic. When an old car is abandoned to corrode in a field or left to rust in a dump somewhere, those fluids soak into the land and eventually seep down through our soil and imperative water supplies.

This brings us to the third – and maybe the most significant ­– environmental leg: prevention of pollution. Vehicle depollution -Before crushing and dismantling, WA Auto parts will ensure that all vehicles are professionally and sensitively de-polluted. It is a necessary first beat in our recycling story.

Our high-quality workmen then extract every drop of body fluid, car or motorcycle cavity into time-tested sealed vessels. These hazardous liquids are removed and collected by waste disposal specialists and disposed of or recycled under strict environmental regulations. If the car battery, containing paste made with lead and caustic acid, is removed carefully. Also existing are mercury switches that can be recycled that you may be able to find and remove from older models before contaminating the environment with this harmful neuro-toxin.

It is this decontamination process that is the ‘stop pollutant’ line for WA’s land and water. It is a methodical, invisible-in-plain-sight aspect of the process and yet one that requires expertise and serious commitment to environmental stewardship. With over 15 years of experience, we have this down to a science and every autorama(arc) that touches our yard is made totally inert as an environmental threat. The above commitment is a basic element of our sense of responsibility and duty to our own community – a commitment that spares no effort to protect from harm the very environment in which we all live and play.

Pillar 4 – Application beyond the immediate: WA Auto Parts and the circular economy

We’ve had a largely linear economy for decades: take, make, dispose. We take things out of the earth and turn them into products that we put in the trash. The environmental structual unsustainability of this model is known to everyone. The future lies in a circular economy — one that reduces waste and keeps resources in use for as long as possible.

And this is where the entire thing comes together. The cars wreckers play an important role as their leaders in automotive circular economy including companies like WA Auto Parts. We don’t see just end of life vehicle; we see multiple opportunities.

Our approach embodies the core principles of a circular economy:

Reuse: The first, and the one that saves the most energy, is reusing parts. We rescue these pieces from the landfill and as a result can offer unbeatable deals on all kinds of car parts! That, quite literally, is recycling at the highest level.

Recycle: The car’s body – While stripped of usable components, a car shell is not waste! It is a rich lode of raw material. Powerful magnets and sensors help separate the different metals and other materials in the crushed vehicle as it is shredded. That high-grade metal, as well as aluminum and plastic scrap before it, is sold to smelters and producers, giving old waste a new life as a marketable commodity.

Remanufacture: Some parts (say, engines or transmissions) can be automatically rebuilt to resale level. With new parts/components replacing those too-worn-to-be-useful at 80% of the cost of “OEM” (original equipment manufacturer) standards or makersʼ specifications for the vehicle owner/public. You receive product good as new and a lot greener on both the energy front and the resource frontier. We are one of the largest suppliers of these reusable components, which feed into the remanufacturing industry.

When we participate in this cycle of participation, production and consumption, we are creating a feedback loop that is healthy for the environment, good for the economy. It creates green jobs, affordable alternatives for auto repairs and reduces our country’s reliance on foreign raw materials.

What You Did to Make This Environmental Win

Story of how car wreckers are environment friendly is not only our story but yours as well. Every motorist could be forced to make this long term commitment. So You Can Be Proud That When You Finally Get Your Old Junker Professionally Wrecked By Someone Like Wa Auto Parts, It Doesn’t Go Rusting And Moldering And Polluting – Subsequently Poisoning Our Nature. You’re providing that it will be recycled to its highest quality state, the parts find a second life, and the materials within are preserved to recapture in the linear economy.

If you have a car that is not being used, unwanted or wrecked – there is no reason for it to be sitting as an eye sore. It should be part of the answer. May it be the start of another recycling story. The best part – most of them have up to 3 years warranty and shouldn’t give you any trouble, because it’s custom made and designed to work like the original part. So when you’re looking for the most suitable parts for your car, look no further than our Junk Yard. And if you require a dependable, quality recycled part to get your vehicle on the road again, be sure to check out Discount Car Parts range and say YES TO SAVING! Choose a pretested high quality used part from our inventory.

About WA Auto Parts, your leading used auto parts buyer, seller and wrecker located in Perth Western Australia. We care for the environment and we are a business that has been running since 1987, rest assured you will only get durable second hand Japanese European Australian korean and American car parts. You make it part of that AMAZING recycling story.

Ready to make a difference? Contact Us For Wrecking SecondHand Cars Contact us now on (08) 9358 1392 to wreck your old car for cash, or get an out of the world discount on a vehicle spare part. Read the full statement from City of Perth:WA COVID-19 response places of worshipTogether we can keep Perth lovelysustainab Contact us today!

It’s a situation most car owners eventually face. You’re on the phone with your trusted mechanic, and after going over the vehicle they deliver the news every owner hopes to avoid: a repair bill that may cost more than the car is worth. Your mind instantly starts to evaluate the options. It could have been a faithful companion for years, taking its owner on daily trips around Perth and countless journeys around Western Australia. But in the case of major mechanical breakdowns, the decision often comes down to financial and emotional. As experienced Car Wreckers Perth specialists, we regularly help vehicle owners at this crossroads, assisting them to understand the true value of their vehicle and the most practical way forward.

Do you sink thousands more into an old car, hoping this will be the final repair it will ever need? Or is it goodbye when you take it down to this?

Members of the WA Auto Parts team have spoken to thousands of people from all corners of Western Australia who are in the midst of this predicament. We are in the business for several years, and we understand that’s not all down to a mechanical issue — it is seriously life changing. That’s why we’ve put together this guide. We want you to be the kind of person who recognises these obviously cold-hearted ‘tipping points’, for lack of a better phrasey-wasey – so when (see above) that moment comes, it can’t simply only ever feel like you’re giving up and throwing in the towel and caving in and doing what’s just easiest right now, because instead it’s any kind of rational money decision (even if not perfect) anyone working with their feet on an actual ground could make.

The Tipping Point: It’s Worth More Than Half as Much to Fix the Car

This is the first and foremost rule above all. Call it a misguided business decision and leave it at that. If you are offered to make a business asset at smaller value that is impossible in case we need invest more than the sum of worth. The car is no different.

Take your 12-year-old SUV, worth, oh, let’s say $6,000 in decent running condition in the Perth market. Your mechanic calls to say that the transmission is shot and you need to drop $4,000 for a replacement. That discount is worth two-thirds as much as the car on its own if you consider its value. Risk a very dangerous game with that. You’re never getting that $4,000 back; repairing the transmission doesn’t miraculously raise the car’s value to $10,000. That only returns it to its original $6,000 price, all things being equal and assuming nothing else happens.

Here’s what we say: If the repair ends up costing more than half the potential resale or trade-in value of your car, it doesn’t make sense any more. Now, the car is what’s known an “economic write-off.” Instead of throwing in good money after bad, give seriously good roofers a call (08) 9358 1392 and we’ll chat with you reasonably. We pay you cash for your car as-is and remove the equity from the vehicle, so there is no need to spend money on one more cent.

The Tipping Point: When You Have Encountered a “Catastrophic” Failure

Not all fixes are alike. You change out a beat-to-hell alternator when it becomes history, not have the hellcat of an electro-mechanical version nuke your website. That distinction is all important to grasp.

A typical repair is a “wear and tear” part, like brake pads or a radiator or water pump. On the contrary, a catastrophic failure happens at the very heart of the vehicle. This includes:

Seized Motor: One that has ceased to run due to low oil, overheating usually from a blown head gasket, or internal damages deemed not cost worthy to repair.

Dead Transmission: The vehicle will not shift gears, or it will do so poorly. Transmission rebuilds and replacements are some of the most expensive jobs in auto repair.

Bent or Twisted Frame: When a car is subjected to a serious accident, the chassis might be misshapen. It also renders the car virtually undriveable and almost impossible to steer.

When it’s one of these “big three” that goes wrong, you aren’t talking about service anymore — you’re talking major surgery on a car that may be nearing the end of its useful life. Well, as a junkyard that also needs to carry stock of car parts that will be used again by other drivers after recycling them and restoring them WA Auto Parts believe we would still find value in your dead engine car so long as the salvageable internals are still ok condition like the transmission, Doors, Interior etc. But as the homeowner, it’s rarely financially responsible for you to fund such a repair.

The Tipping Point That Moment When You Fall into the “Re-pair Domino Effect”

Does this sound familiar? You drop $800 to patch up a massive oil leak. One month later the car starts overheating and needs a new water pump. You rectify that, and now a key sensor fails and the car goes into, yes, “limp mode.” This is the “repair domino effect,” and it means there’s no mistaking that your car has checked in to the clinic for cars with geriatrics.

An old car is a home to aging parts. Then when you go and stick one brand­ new widget into all those old widgets, it can stress out the remaining ones they’re installed with—other just­ as­ old pieces in that system will begin to fail next. You are never comfortable driving, because you know the next mechanical problem is just around the corner. Your car goes from being something that represents freedom to get away from work, into something you are totally stressed about and that just eats up money.

The only sure way out of this cycle of ad infinitum repairs is to bite the bullet and call a wrecker. It brings a decisive, final end to the cycle of bills and breakdowns, putting your mind at ease.

Tipping Point: When the Problem is Structural Rust

Yes, we have a beautiful beach but with ‘Freo Doctor’ it can get harsh on our vehicles! It would be handy to know the difference between little, surface rust on a door panel and something that’s deeply set into an car’s under-pinning. A mechanic can price out the repair of a suspension component, but if the frame onto which that part hooks up is bubbling and flaking off, then that restoration becomes your garden-variety waste.

Structural rust in a car is the same as having cancer. It reduces the car’s ability to protect you in a crash, and is basically an automatic fail at vehicle inspection time. It does look as if such a fundamental defect in the very body of the car couldn’t simply be repaired mechanically. Scared of the fact my car might get made inoperable All 1 star ratings until they account for this as an option and not liability to them Then I’ll just keep jamming a rock in my break small adjustment knob making your “in car factory reset” worthless. There is a wrecker-service that can do this for a professional 58 job right.

The Tipping Point When The Car Can’t Pass Inspection Anyhow

If you want to get your wheels on the road?993 – Legal Requirements The following criteria must be met to ensure:. Occasionally the decision to repair or destroy is taken from you by the result of a vehicle inspection (known as “going over the pits”).

Maybe you can win past some kind of major engine issue in your car, only to have it drop out on the inspection for other expensive reasons? Common high-cost failures include:

• Bad cat turns in high emissions.
• Significant chassis cracks or corrosion.
• Major suspension issues.
• Multiple serious oil leaks.

If what the whole bill would be to make your car road-legal isn’t just solving that main problem and instead is a long string of other problems, then that bill can get huge in a hurry. We buy all cars – even if they’re registered, unregistered and not running or have failed its Mot. We have the easy answer to what may become for you an expensive and stressful legal problem.

The Wrecker As a Corrective: Wise Policy at Work, Not Defeat

If you’ve been nodding down the list, there’s your answer. Also, keep in mind that using a car wrecker is not “giving up.” It’s a savvy business pivot. You are acknowledging that your car may not really be worth anything at this point, except as a source of raw material and reusable parts.

This is our specialty. It’s one of the things we are very good at working out here at WA Auto Parts. Whereas we are sitting on all that knowledge around Japanese / European Aussie and Korean cars – We know which motors people want to buy, which gearboxes people are after and even small electrical bits that can keep yet another car on the road. That knowledge includes being able to offer you the best price possible for your scrap car.

Conclusion

The tipping points are something you can influence if you know them. So, you can now apply the mechanics quote vs what you already know about your current cars condition and make the rational judge-ment call that will spare you much heartache and financial loss. What’s wrong with that math? If crunching the numbers doesn’t lean in your favor; if failure would be catastrophic; and you’re tired of repairs or concerned for safety — one way to go.

If your vehicle has fallen under these circumstances, the remedy is not complex.

Gota question Call the friendly team at WA Auto Parts. About us Let our 15+ years of experience get you a fast, free and no-obligation quote and we can assist in turning what might be an unsalable property into immediate cash