Sometimes your car becomes too expensive to maintain. Constant repairs and struggles may eat away at your bank balance until you start to realise it’s not economical to keep it on the road. Especially when you know the repair is probably worth more than the whole car.
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Beyond the Breaker’s Yard – Recycling Unusable Cars
When car parts get beyond circulation as second hand spares, they have to be recycled. Around 80% of a car can be turned into usable products, making car recycling big business today. There are now whole companies that exist around taking different materials from scrapped cars and turning them into reusable products. What are these materials and how are they reprocessed? Continue reading
The History of Breaker Agencies
Obviously the web has had a massive effect on all kinds of business, some more than others. In most cases it been great for bringing customers and clients together who would have never previously met. This certainly has been true for the second hand car spares trade where car owners hungry for inexpensive parts can now be united with dealers all over the country.
People have always used second hand goods for all kinds of things. Running a car has always been pretty costly, especially in terms of petrol, tax, insurance and MOTs, and that’s before you consider that you might have a breakdown. Continue reading
The BreakerLink Story
BreakerLink is a popular website that’s focussed on the second hand car spare trade. It unites breakers, the people who run scrapyards, with customers looking for inexpensive parts. This type of business is ideally suited to the internet, as it’s all about communication. There’s always someone out there looking for a part, and there’s usually someone out there selling the part to match, the skill is in uniting the two – who may be at different ends of the country. Continue reading