What happens to a salvage or junk car after we buy them.
Junk Car, Misc No Comments »The first step for us is paper work. We make copies of your title and all information concerning your vehicle. Then we log them into our salvage title book. We turn in our titles about once a month or sooner, depends on when we need to.
After this we drain all fluids out of the vehicle. The fluids are all drained in separate containers to keep cross contamination down. We go to great lengths not to spill or drop any of the vehicles fluids on the ground. Accidents do happen but not as often as you might think. We then send these fluids out to be recycled.
After the fluids are drained, we then remove the tires and wheels. The rubber is removed from the rims and stacked to be recycled into either other tires or even fuel. The wheel itself is usually steel or aluminum, we stack the wheels in separate stacks to send them off to get processed and recycled.
Once the tires are take car of, we remove the engine and transmission. After we evaluate the engine and transmission to see if it can be used as a core, rebuildable, we place it in the proper stack. If the engine and transmission isn’t rebuildable then we simply recycle them for the metals that they contain.
At this point we are ready to remove the break parts and any front end parts that my be rebuilt and most of the electrical parts.
The salvage car is now ready to be crushed. We load the vehicle into a huge press that smashes it flat. Once we smash it flat we stack it and wait for the processor to pick it up.

This is how we crush junk cars.
The left over car bodies are picked up by the processor and processed again by them. What basically happens is the car body is ground up into half dollar sized pieces. the grinder then separates the aluminum, brass and interior parts that is left over.
At this stage the half dollar pieces are ready to be melted down into new metal. Most of the time your old car becomes a brand new car. By us recycling you vehicle we save valuable resources that otherwise would have gone to waste.

Car being sreaded into pieces
About 98% of the vehicle is recycled. This is a huge improvement over the years past. In the past your old vehicle could have sat in a dump or in your backyard. By recycling your vehicle you are doing a great good for the environment.
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