How to search for VX salvage yard parts

[TheUltimateMan]

Wow... it's so sad to one of our beautiful VXs all torn up and lying on the ground like that...

Someone in the community turned me on to this website for miscellaneous car parts:

http://www.car-part.com/

So far I've ordered a passenger rear quarter window from a shop I found on there:

http://www.allforeignautoparts.com/

(for only $60 shipped!)

Anyway, this car part website is very useful, and I called a few shops they have listed, and the site seems to be up to date. AND, the shop I ordered from was very nice and patient with a weary customer like me... even e-mailed me specific part photos!

[deermagnet]

So, I've been to five u-pull-it and salvage yards in the last month.

I found a '01 Proton #0730 at Joe's Used Auto Parts near New Ringgold, PA. It was a cash for clunker and it's not in the u-pull-it section. The owner is very possessive and it's not gonna be picked apart and "nickle and dimed". You're not gonna get just the fangs without the whole grill, or the roof rail covers alone, or just the hood insert, or a piece of cladding without the whole door. There is a ton of very good stuff on/in this VX. They f'd up the back door and the pass side tail light with a fork lift though. The hood is flawless. The hood insert is very faded, but otherwise perfect. The center armrest is really badly cracked and is unusable. I can't believe I found the armrest above in near perfect condition.

Don't expect anything to be cheap. I asked him for a Rodeo fog light switch and he said $25, for a used one. I just bought a brand new one for $11 shipped.







I asked how much for the whole thing and he said it can't be sold like that. It must be stripped so that VIN can never hit the road again. It looks like no one with #0730 was a member here. Here's the cash for clunkers info on this VX-
http://www.faqs.org/cars/sales/TOM-MASANOINC/Mazda-4.html

The u-pull-it at Joe's is a waste of time. I found just a few old Zu's and didn't pull anything. Actually, I was disappointed in all the u-pull-its I went to, including the largest u-pull-it in the world, Harry's in Hazelton, Pa.
http://www.wegotused.com/

I never expected to find a VX, but there's not even any '98+ Zu's. It's really just all old junk. Anything good and fairly new gets stripped and the parts get warehoused for top dollar sales. Nothing worth anything goes to u-pull-it yards.

Mark Griffin

[MSHardeman]

Mark, can I make a request?

If you head back down to that poor lost soul (the VX) could you get the interior dome light and the roof rails (not the cross bars) for me?

I have been wanting to add a second light to the interior of my VX for a while now and one of my roof rails is starting to crack and rust right where the cross bars attach above the drivers door.

I haven't really started looking for the roof rails myself, so if you can't get to them it's no big deal as I'm sure I'll hunt them down soon.

Thanks

[deermagnet]

Mark, he won't let me pull anything. They pull the part you need and hand it to you or ship it out. Give him a call and I'm sure he'll get them out to you.

That place is not very near me, so I doubt I'll be down that way again.

Mark

[MSHardeman]

Will do.

Thanks for the recon mission.

[tom4bren]

There's a guy in Alexandria that wanted an ashtray. I can't remember his handle tho. I'll go ahead and get it from you in case I ever get in contact with him again.

Tom

[deermagnet]

Ok Tom, I'll ship you the ash tray. PM me a mailing address. I he doesn't need it you can hang on to it till someone else asks for one.

Mark