It’s a time that comes for any car owner eventually. The day you say goodbye. Maybe it’s your dependable first car that saw you through university years or that family wagon laden with school runs, holidays and other memories. Or perhaps it’s a hard-working ute that has finally died after years of hard toil. Los It’s one of those things that, under most circumstances, you just want gone — whether it’s lost to accident, a breakdown of its mechanicals or simply old age, and when you turn over the keys to a wrecker often feels like finality with an exclamation point. But what if it wasn’t?
At WA Auto Parts, we know you’re not at the end; you’re just getting started. Perth’s number one auto wrecker for over 15 years, we’ve had thousands of cars come through our yard. From the outside, it might look like a place cars come to die. But we’d encourage you to consider it from our perspective: as a place where the legacy of an automobile is held up in esteem, its dangers mitigated and its value renewed.
You’ve counted on your vehicle long enough to get you back on the road so now let us help in how it’s last moments look; professionally, respectfully, and with an absolutely unwavering dedication to our environment. Well, it’s time to pull back the curtain and show you how the sausage is made What happens throughout your car after you’ve dropped off at our WA Auto Parts for a service.
1) Intake and initial assessment
The adventure starts as soon as you enter the gates at our home in Perth, Western Australia. Whether it’s towed in, or taken there for one last time drive, your number 1 is priority NUMBER ONE! We realise this is the tricky bit and our friendly team are here to welcome you, help you and keep things nice n easy!
First things first, we handle the paperwork. It’s an important step to reassure the world that we are doing everything right. We can help with the legal transfer and deregistration,->DEREGISTRATION for all around this responsibility! No more loose ends, no fretting about the future.
After the obligatory pleasantries, our judges must roll up their sleeves. That’s where 15 years of deep industry levels of experience from our team comes to the party. What they see is not simply a car, but an elaborate puzzle of potential. C import or domestic, model 1992 on up running or not. Why? As they can check over any car, we have it all here from Japanese to European, Australian to Korean & American Cars – bargain imports to V8 muscle along with cars suitable for those on L or P plates!!
Our assessor walks around the car, letting their trained eyes trail all over it and assessing the potential. Is the engine in that Toyota Hilux still sweet as after it got nailed on the nose? Is the doors and the leather seats in that Holden Commodore are any good? Would this Hyundai i30 be sending another car thousands more kilometres down the road? This initial impression is KEY triage for how we can maximize the worth of your vehicle— value that we put into your pocket and back in YOUR COMMUNITY with fair pricing or affordable salvaged parts.
Depollution-“Making it Safe”
Once no bolt has been unscrewed or part has been removed, the vehicle is then placed in our purpose built depollution bay. This is also where most of the risk to environment resides, and our single biggest liability as a demolition man. Your car is a work of art and an engineering marvel, However it is also machine full of all sorts fluids and substances that you never want escaping out there in our Western Australian environment.
Using specialized equipment and containment facilities, our team treats this process with the attention that it requires. It’s an orderly process, clean and by the book and we catch in a safe way the following:
Fuel, Oil & Coolant: All petrol diesel Engine oil & coolant drained into airtight metallic drums.
Further Fluids: We will also no longer take transmission fluid, brake fluid and wiper fluid.
The Battery: Car batteries contain lead and acidic fluids. We meticulously remove and dispatch them to licensed recyclers who can safely recover their contents.
Ozone-Depleting Gasses: The cooling refrigerant from the A/C is gathered by certified professionals to make sure that those gasses don’t escape.
Other Hazards: We search for, and dispose of, other hazardous items like mercury switches (which are in older vehicles) to ensure all un-deployed airbags go through a safe process.
This rigorous process ensures the car is not a threat to our land or water when it moves to the next stage. It’s a clean shell ready to give back its bounty without cost or injury to the earth.
Step 3: Disassembly & Harvesting – “ The Precise Harvest”
And this is where things start to get interesting after the car has been secured. That is what makes our yard the number 1 ONE STOP USED AUTO PARTS SHOP in Perth. Our Dismantling Station is where the breaking bad art happens, and our crew are artists! They aren’t just tearing cars apart; they are picking them over with a vengeance — and a strategy — to extract the bits that can have another life.
They are streetwise knowledge workers traveling in a tribe that wields encyclopedic expertise about makes and models from all over the globe. They know the exact spot that alternators are located on a Ford Falcon, for instance, or which specific bolts hold a headlight assembly on a Mazda 3 in place; they know how to remove side mirrors from Mitsubishi Tritons without causing damage.
This “careful harvest” is highly systematic:
THE DRIVETRAIN: Now we get under the skin of this car and see what makes it go – Engine and Transmission. These are often the highest cost, and can be the lifesaver donor transplant for another vehicle.
There are, of course, the leading people – starter motor and alternator and radiator and steering rack and suspension members that provide depth to fill out the picture; brake assemblies.
Body Panels & Lights: If the doors, bonnets and Boot lids are good these will be taken as well bumper and guards. Headlights and Taillights Headlights and taillights can be costly when brand new, so they’re a selection essential.
Interior Parts: While this includes whole seats, we also please to offer interior parts that then allow for the greatest impact to your piece within YOUR home.
Every item is inspected as it leaves the plant, for unsurpassed quality. Then, the manufacturer prepares and tests in order to make sure that it matches up to their original standards. Only then is it assigned a part number and entered into our enormous, computerized database.
It’s this attention to detail that means we’re happy to claim that we offer a comprehensive selection of used car parts for sale at our cheapest ever prices. That’s what you’re tapping into by getting in touch with us on (08) 9358 1392 Mon – Fri between 9.00am and 5.00pm WST; this massive resource of awesome, handpicked truck parts 시린을. We’re able to tell you right away if we have just what you need, eliminating the lost time and dollars spent on manufacuring a part.
Step four – the all important transition from car to commodity.
After a team of cannibals gets everything useful, you now have an empty metallic shell. And yet, even to this day, its journey is not over. This monster is all potential – it’s crouched here impatiently, waiting for the day when it becomes raw material.
First, big pieces that are not metal — like the dashes or wire looms on which they were mounted — are removed from the shell. It is then transported to the yard’s most powerful piece of equipment. Inside is a monster hydraulic crusher that smashes the car to a disposable rectangle.
The crushed hulk of a car next goes into a massive industrial shredder. And with a ground shaking crunch, oversized hammers whirling in the air smash everything into tiny fist-sized nuggets within seconds. What comes streaming out the other end is a metal and everything else mixture, where the actual alchemy happens. This flow passes through several separatrices:
Giant MagnetsPulled by Giant Magnets, all the iron and steel (ferrous metals) are removed from the stream.
The Eddy Currents produce a magnetic field so strong that it drives the non-ferrous metals out while ejecting the lighter, valuable aluminum into another container.
Air and Water Jets Air and water jets are used to screen, sift or filter out remaining materials such as textiles, plastics, embers and other unwanted contaminants.
At the very end of that line where a car would sit is a neat stack of raw materials — mostly steel and aluminum of top quality — awaiting purchase in foundries and mills.
Conclusion: That’s One Way to Get Your Car Running
So, what’s up with your car? It was given a new purpose. Its heart could be pounding in a car on the key streets in Perth. Its door would probably have been relatively cheap to fix someone’s accident damage. Some other project’s machine might be held together by its nuts and bolts.
And what about the steel frame that held it up? It’s getting shipped right now to be melted down and reincarnated as a load-bearing beam inside a new building or, who knows, perhaps part of someone’s refrigerator or maybe even componentry in an entire brand-new car — end-to-end recycled.
That is the history WA Auto Parts and that is what we get to open our eyes to every morning. We’re not the end of the road for a car – we’re where life starts again, in your next favorite coffee table. We’re a key part of a circular economy, trying to extract as much value from our cast-offs and leave as little waste behind for our community—and at a do-able price.
Make the right choice, when buying WA Auto Parts, it’s no wonder you trust a professional with more than 15 years of service. You’re picking a team that honors your car’s past and is dedicated to its future.
We want to buy your junk car for cash – give us a call We’ll pick it up and pay you CA$H ON THE SPOT for the vehicle in any condition as long as we can pick it up — CALL US TODAY!. Ring the boys at WA Auto Parts on (08) 9358 1392.