i saw a set of bbs rs at the newark pick & pull but there were under a crushed porsche 944
why the heck do they do that, while they have some limited ghetto ass wheels for sale.
i tried to get a set of style 5s i saw on a e39 2 months ago at some pick & pull & they straight away refuse to sell it.
& top of that i talked to 3-4 different guys none of them gave a similar answer in concern to the wheels.
dude, those scavengers are waiting at the door before the yard opens! I went one time to get an IS spoiler bright and early, and I got a free t-shirt and coupon for being an early bird.
I never had an issue getting wheels in CA. I picked up a set of 15" BBS RAs in 4x100 once, they just asked size, and it was a done deal. Made a healthy 300 bucks off those wheels...
It's too bad our yards nearby aren't worth a damn. I guess it comes with the territory though. I moved into a more upscale community and nobody works on there won cars around here. That's why there are dealerships every 500ft down the main drag.
pleasefixitup wrote:I asked pick n pull what happens to the wheels, their response...
"if they're steel they stay on the car, if they're aluminum we scrap them"
To us that seems sacrilegious but for them to parse through every set of wheels that comes their way, it may not be worth it trying to figure out if it's $20 worth of scrap or $100 to some guy into old cars.
Although I'd bet that the guys working there know how to spot anything of particularly high worth and those don't make it to the scrap pile.
I can say for Ontario, one scrapyard refused me to sell rims because, as they say, it's an safety issue (how?) i.e they don't want to be held responsible if something will happen with this rim afterwards?
So a few sets of very nice rims I've asked for ended up in aluminum bin and where destined to be scrapped. No exclusions.
Other scrap yard actually pulls wheels and have them on display as well as huge piles of rims where anyone is allowed to search:
They also leave nice wheels on the cars, don't know if customers allowed to pull them themselves, but seems like deal can be made for them:
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I tried to buy a set of e39 Style 5s last year, but I either had to strip the tires off of them or pay $5 each for them. There were two other guys waiting to use the tire machine, and I was pressed for time & too cheap to pay the extra $25 for ratty old tires, so I left them. No idea what happened to them.
Other times I've been out there, I've seen wheels on or near the cars, but if they get pulled from the car by other scavengers and left on the ground, who knows where they end up. Once there was a car there and I wanted to grab the wheels, but only two were near the car; I found one more several rows over from it, and the fourth was nowhere to be found. Such a sad deal, but I really don't need a wheel fort anyway.
chevale wrote:I can say for Ontario, one scrapyard refused me to sell rims because, as they say, it's an safety issue (how?) i.e they don't want to be held responsible if something will happen with this rim afterwards?
So a few sets of very nice rims I've asked for ended up in aluminum bin and where destined to be scrapped. No exclusions.
I think a sign that says "Purchase at own risk" or something of that sort...should relieved them of any liabilities. A moment of silent for their future death.
winfred wrote:i've been known to knife a great big hole in the tire so i don't gotta pay for shit i don't want
davintosh wrote:I tried to buy a set of e39 Style 5s last year, but I either had to strip the tires off of them or pay $5 each for them
That's brilliant; wish I had thought of doing that. Even if I did strip those crappy tires off of the wheels, there was little chance anybody else would've paid for them.
Rarely are good wheels available.
I lucked out exactly ONCE and scored some BBS RS 16*7 100x4 off a euro e30 that they had JUST dropped.
I made a metric buttload off that car.
I've gotten a few sets of RAs, RSs and some estillo cincos. Knife through the sidewall is the only way to roll, but one yard still charges for tires no matter what, and another charges same regardless.
If they don't sell, they to scrappy, like the bitchin set of rials on a W123 coupe.
I've gotten a couple of nice sets but nothing over the top like a set of real Alpinas or anything. But for some reason they used to put cars out in the yard with the wheels on but no longer do. At least at the one in Windsor Cal. I've got to think it must be some liability issue, but I dunno.
Our pick and pull leaves the wheels with the cars, no matter what they are. The last 535iS I pulled from had 16" style 5's. Couldn't get them b/c of the damned wheel lock.
I have been noticing they are pulling everything thats not locked down.
There were some 16*8 style 5s, just 2 of them on a 525, that had a wheel lock on.
They are just scrapping everything.
shagrath wrote:Our pick and pull leaves the wheels with the cars, no matter what they are. The last 535iS I pulled from had 16" style 5's. Couldn't get them b/c of the damned wheel lock.
shagrath wrote:Our pick and pull leaves the wheels with the cars, no matter what they are. The last 535iS I pulled from had 16" style 5's. Couldn't get them b/c of the damned wheel lock.
I bought a set of 4x100 15" rial wheels at the yard a while back. They had a locking center cap, so I rummaged through the car for a while and found the key to the lock. Then once the caps were off, I found that all four wheels had wheel locks. Found that key too. It was too sloppy to work with hand tools, so I caught the guys that drive through in a pickup truck with a compressor and had them bust them off for me.
All four wheels were bent and cost me $200. I made $7 on them after removing the tires and refunding half what I sold them for to the guy who had them refinished. I knew two were bent and so did he, but I felt bad, so I offered him 50% back.
