Pull-A-Part

So I'm here in the pull apart in Winston Salem. This is a junkyard that I come to about once a month and go hunting for parts. I'm a school teacher. My salary is fine. I can live on it just fine, but I can also come to the junkyard, which I do enjoy, and find some different parts to flip on eBay and on various sites and make some extra money. And it comes out to where I make about $250 every month selling parts on eBay or different platforms So If you're into cars and you're into, I don't know, just walking around and pulling, it's a great way to make a few extra bucks. Again, I really enjoy coming to the junkyard. What I always tell people is when you look at these cars, you're getting a snapshot of that some person, that person's life at that moment. You'll find all kinds of interesting, sometimes weird things in a junkyard car. And that just kind of makes it more exciting because you don't know what you're going to find. People They have gone digital. They do have websites and you can check the stock, what they have inventory before you go. So I do suggest check out websites first. A RAV4, a Matrix. These two here I'll be looking at for steering wheels. I sell a lot of steering wheels online. The Eclipse, there's two I'm going to check out. One's behind me actually. I get some air vents out of those. The Miata guys will do that as an upgrade for their cars and they're pretty inexpensive. The CR-V, I'm going to look at these two to see if they have a little table in the back. I did a video about the table in my RAV4. I think it's a really cool thing. And I'll see if I can get one or two more. And these last two, the Impresa and the Benetton Titan, I'm going to look at those for some very small parts that I actually got the idea off of YouTube from a user named Brandon up in Canada, which I've been chatting with for a little bit now. And he does a lot of flipping up in Canada and he's got some information that I So I want to check out these for the first time and see if I can pull some parts. But until then, let's get to this. All right. As mentioned, this is the MSB-C Eclipse and I'm looking for these air vents here. When you open them up, sometimes you can just give them a little pull and that came right out. Always check to make sure nothing's broken. That does work. These things cost about $2, $3. And yet online, I'm selling for $12 to $15 shipped. Usually people are buying more than one. So shipping's not that bad for me. And I can make a solid $10 profit off this one little guy. Now each of these Mitsubishi's will have four in them. Sometimes they are hard to get out. So I'll probably stop recording a second to make sure I get all these out and try not to break them. But again, you got four per. So if you can finally these cars and they do get hard to get out sometimes and sometimes the plastic does get brittle, then get one without breaking it. You make some pretty decent profit. All right. So I talked about how you will find some weird stuff in a junkyard car. I just came across this Toyota Highlander and inside was a weave. Yeah, that's the kind of stuff you find. Sometimes you're going on the junkyard, you come across something you're not even looking for. I found this old Jag. It looks to be in pretty good shape. It says it's an old XJ series. It just come to the yard about a month ago. And I'm going to try to take off this tail light looks being good shape. I've already started screwing these four Phillips head screws, machine screws. That is. But now I need to figure out how to get this entire assembly out, which looks So I'll pop those out. Tail lights run about $20 and I have a feeling I can make a few bucks off of this. So I'm going to take this off and take it home. All right. So we have the four screws on the lens, three more inside the housing. And I mentioned how I wish there was the other one here because it was missing. I started digging around and well, it's in here already taken off ready to go. One thing I will add to when removing this, I did have to cut one wire and then unplug the harness, but this was about a three, four minute piece to take off. Not hard to do, not time cons If I can pay $20 a piece, $40, hopefully I can make at least $25, $30 profit per, which is not a bad deal. That's kind of profit margins I'm seeking when pulling stuff. I look for stuff that's kind of older, kind of rare. Its owners are going to typically want to keep their stuff in good condition. So this is kind of stuff that I go for. All right. All right. So you have two tail lights. I also took the rear two corner markers. Now the problem is, I'm going to carry all this stuff around. So one thing to do is start looking around at what's nearby. There's a Corolla down there. There's also something here. Start looking around and seeing if anything has some kind of a little net inside of it too. And Toyota is really good for having these. And yes, the Subaru has them as well. But if you look at these little nets, these little cargo nets, they come in a lot of cars stock. And here's the other CR, if you also looked at it is missing the table. And then you have an easy way of hauling out all of your, your loot, all your bounty, whatever you want to call it. All right. I'm heading out. The main things I came for today were the, the matrix and the RAV4 looking at their steering wheels. If you can find a leather wrapped Corolla S matrix, Pontiac Vibe, some RAV4s, they are a popular upgrade for the second generation MR2, which I have in love. And you can get them for fairly cheap in the yard, about $15, $20 for the wheel. And they do flip pretty good at 60 and up. But I got these cool old Jag tail lights and side markers, which Jeremy Clarkson, we're very proud of the Jag. That's a terrible personation of him, by the way. Sorry. But when you're out here, just look around, look in cars, see what you find. I mean, you might find something kind of neat. Actually, here is a DC sports exhaust on a G35. I kind of wonder if there's anything else in this car that is, I think, all right. So the engine is gone. Actually, the whole front end is gone. So there's the DC exhaust. I might take a look at it, see what they go for online. I doubt that I'll pick this up today. But then just look around and check out other things. You never know what you're going to find. I found some really cool stuff before. Not long ago, I got a racing beat intake for an RX-8. I've never had a RX-8, but I found this really cool intake. It didn't cost much, maybe $12 or so for the filter. I ended up selling it for 93 shipped. So I made some good money on it. Shipping cost me about $12, $13. So let'say I made $72 profit, which is pretty good. There's a lot of mud up in there. That's odd. But Make sure you wear appropriate clothes. Wear something you're not afraid to get dirty. It is kind of messy sometimes. It'super hot right now and it's been hot for a couple of days. It's not raining a couple of days, so it's really dry, thankfully. That's it. It'sort of really hot out here. But bring tools, figure out some basic tools that you want to take. I'll try to keep it as light as possible. The biggest thing that I bring is my cordless impact that has saved me so many times from doing too much work, especially on hot days. Bring some basic tools, look around, happy shopping, happy hunting. Take care. Okay, guys. Just paid, just got back out of the car. Two front marker lights, two side marker lights, three of the Eclipse vents and the two Jag Telites. And then I also got this really neat Mercedes Benz roadside tool. It needs to be cleaned up. But $86. 44. I think I make all my money back. Honestly, I think I make the $86 back just here. And then this stuff being the peripheral stuff here, just kind of adding to it. Again, go out. Do some research. Go out, find a junkyard. If you're in the cars, it's kind of cool just to walk around. It's kind of neat to see what's out there. It's also neat to kind of find out what is worth money, what is not. All right, again, happy hunting, have fun and stay hydrated because it gets flipping hot out there.