In Between Xmas and New Year
The garage is open during this time, but we restrict what we book in. To be honest there is very little work, as most want any work to be done before Christmas. We use this opportunity to catch up with our own priorities.
We clean the garage, organise the tools and also catch up with some of the salvage repairs we have within the yard. The problem with buying salvage projects is that you cannot predict when the bargains are. I have seen us wait moths for the right car and then have 3 cars, all going through at good prices. The good news is, we normally have plenty of space in the yard to store these salvage projects, the only issue is finding the time and sometimes the car parts to sort these out.
The period in-between Christmas and New Year tends to be a good time, to get these repairable salvage jobs up on the ramps and get things moving. With many of the breaker yards either shut, working on skeleton staff of just deciding when they want to open, I find using a car part location service such as CarSpareFinder is a good way to locate parts from yards that are open at this time. Normally the postage service has slowed down by this point, so often we get the car parts the next day.
I wish I could say that car salvage go cheaper this time of year, the demand seems just as big as ever, probably getting ready for anew start in the new year.
Category: Salvage