Budget Auto Wrecking

i go here all the time. i have 5 old beaters. great prices. best place in the world if you are into maintaining your own vehicles.

One star is a generous rating for this hole in the wall pile of junk. Literally their entire inventory is ready for the metal scrap yard and what little they do have to offer is overpriced and incomplete. Yet they still gouge you with demanding high prices and if you don’t agree to their demand, you just wasted your time and pulled the part for the crooks to resell to another unsuspecting client. I wound up going next door to AAA auto wrecking and John gave me a hell of a deal. Save your time and go straight to AAA wrecking and leave these losers in the mud swamp.

This is for the truck yard only.
I know the drill, I’ve used salvage places like this up and down the west coast since the 80’s. A good place will have some idea of what kind of vehicles they have in stock, and the rest is up to you — you find and pull the part, don’t hurt yourself or do anything dumb like dump oil in the yard, and they charge a fair price.
Not this place — or at least the truck section. They have no idea what vehicles they have in the yard, and the meagre inventory is picked bare. I’d been looking for a seat for a F150, and had been assured they had plenty to pick through. When I got there, I see they have only a dozen Ford trucks at all, half picked bare, and not a single truck from the year range I’d asked about. There’s nothing malicious about BSing me over the phone, it was just a lazy lie that cost me a half tank of gas and a wasted morning.
If you’re a good vulture, save yourself the trip, there’s no meat on the bones down here. I’d give them one star, but they’re fairly nice, have a good selection of wheels, and you might get lucky if you’re looking for common engine bits. Just don’t expect them to have any clue what vehicles they have.

I sold them a lawn ornament. They paid 75 more than pick and pull offered. The tow guy was on time and friendly. Was pleasantly surprised that they paid in cash. If I need to part out another p.o.s they will be my first call.

In case you don’t know, self-​help wrecking yards is not really a service business. You traipse out through a muddy lot to comb over the carcasses of dead cars and either find what you are looking for, or you don’t. It’s a pretty straight forward business.
But it didn’t hurt that the guys were nice and helpful: they lent me tools, let me use the indoor bathroom to wash up, answered questions, and made some small talk.
Price was okay, too; I got a part here for $ 150 that is selling for $ 125-​$ 350 on Ebay.

Needed parts for my Ford Ranger and came to Budget Auto Wreaking. I was impressed. The wreaking yard is clean and orderly. The staff were very helpful. Prices, not bad at all. Only one gripe. Some of the staff worked behind the desk with no shirts on. Bare chested, hairy men. Come on guys, put a shirt on.

I just talked the rudest and laziest employee on earth. God forgive him if he was the owner.
I was asking for a sunroof for a 1998 Subaru Outback. This person just told me that they have outbacks and to just come over and purchased the sunroof for $ 50. That is really a bargain. After calling the dealer to verify the parts, I called Budget again and asked if he can tell me what Outback model do they have. My Subaru has two sunroofs and the size of the sunroof from double-​sunroof Outbacks are different from single-​sunroof Outbacks. The guy said he does not know. I asked if he can check since I live quite far from their location. The rude person told me that if I live far, then just don’t come… «if I live far, just don’t come???»
He could have just told me all sorts of reason why he can’t check inventory, but instead, he wanted me to try my luck, waste my time and gas and look for myself. what an as***! Instead of lifting his fingers or butt and look at their inventory, he wants me to do his job.
This person might be having a bad day. From what I read from previous reviews, the employees were helpful. But it is this kind of attitude that brings a business down.
Get a life, man.

You need to know at least a couple things before you come to an auto wrecking yard in search of parts. First, bring your own tools. Second, you pull the part from the vehicle; somebody else doesn’t do that for you.
We didn’t know any of this until this week, when we found we needed a bolt to keep the driver’s seat in our car from rolling off into the wild blue yonder, or so it seemed it was going to do. I wonder where the original bolt went…
So of course we came to Budget without tools, but the friendly guy at the counter shared with us what tools he had. We went out back and found the car he had directed us to. JP went to work and nabbed the bolt we wanted. When we came back in to drop off the tools, the guy at the counter waived us goodbye without any charge for the part. I like that.

I went to Budget Auto Wrecking looking for a door lock actuator for a ’07 ford focus. After looking up what years had those parts they gave me a reasonable price. I pulled the part, paid, and was out the door a happy camper. One bit of advice that goes for *any* wrecking yard. Call first, and agree upon the price!

When you pull up it’s your standard junk-​yard but the office is air conditioned, clean, and well lit with free coffee and hot chocolate. There are also some vending machines with reasonably priced sodas and snacks. I never actually ventured out to the yard but it looked nice from the window. Their prices were O.K. and the staff was pretty nice.

They have a good selection, but the guy at the counter just guesses at how much stuff costs. «The more you have, the cheaper it is.» –In the words of the sales guy.
No set prices.
They just charge way too much. They even wanted to charge me for the nuts and bolts that came with a certain part! Usually that’s just standard protocol: you buy a part, you get the nuts and bolts that go with it.
But if you’re desperate, they have a descent selection of Japanese cars (i.e. Honda, Acura, Mitsubishi, Toyota, etc).
You pull.
The yard guys are helpful, sales guy (at least the one that bragged about being there for 24 years) is a jerk.

This place is great! I picked up some parts last week and the people there were helpful, and their lot actually had cars that were newer than 1980!!! I was quoted a price, pulled it myself, and was charged exactly what i was quoted. Good service and fair prices! I will certainly be coming back!!!