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Be Buyer Friendly and Sale Smart: Greet your buyers, act friendly (avoid foul language at all costs and keep friends or relatives with potty mouths away for the day). Have one area where buyers can test electric or electronic items (don’t stretch electric extension cords everywhere so that people can trip and fall over them). Maintain eye contact with buyers and never agree or disagree with anything they say about your items.

Used parts are often bought in an attempt to save money and these are usually okay. Often the parts are brought back or barely used because they were not right for the vehicle. Sometimes a car is stripped of its parts after being sold and those parts are used in other vehicles. There is nothing wrong with these parts except they have been used, but they are cheaper. You can get really high-quality auto parts and accessories for a cheap price when you buy them used. You only need to weigh whether you want to spend more for new parts and have a longer life with them, or if you want to get the cheaper used parts.

After you remove the caliper, remove the front brake pad and leave the rear pad in place. Using a C-clamp, compress the caliper piston into the caliper housing. Make sure you remove the cap off the brake reservoir before you do this. This needs to be done so that when you put the new pads in the caliper, it will create a space to put the caliper back on.

When you are looking for the right auto parts and accessories for your car, you should try and find them at a good price but beware of problem parts. Often consumers will buy the cheapest car part, an oil filter for example or a jug of cheap oil. This may seem like a good idea initially because you save money, but you will just end up spending more down the road. If you buy that cheap jug of oil, then your car is going to burn through it faster and you will just need to spend more when it runs out. As well, you may actually do damage to your vehicle with a sub-par oil and that can cost you even more with car repairs.

2005 chevy avalanche Use your gut instinct. Whichever methods you use you should always go with what feels right, if the salesman seems a little pushy then walk out the door.

For handling of anything in the junk yard, it’s important to wear heavy work gloves that will protect the hands and prevent possible punctures or cuts. Even when you think lifting an object is safe, there could be glass or shards of metal below it.

Know the car you drive, keep a history of just what has been done to your car. Keep a Journal on your cars repairs. If you not into journals, then take a Magic Marker and write on the inside of the hood when certain repairs were made, and by whom. There are a number of books published on how to fix your car, buy one and read it and know the basics if nothing else. Take a girl friend with you when you go to a repair shop, and compare note when leave the shop. Man friends are nice but you are here to learn not to be impressed by his knowledge.

A auto salvage company on the other hand buys salvage cars, fixes them and then sells them off. Question now is “What is a salvage car?” A salvage car is when the cost of repairs on a vehicle exceeds the actual worth of the vehicle. For instance, you have a car that is not working and you do not have the needed amount of money to fix it. You then decide to sell it off.