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Originally Posted by andya
Anyway that's my story - a dream come true - an Aladdin's cave of parts where someone says 'take what you want'
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A scrapyard local to me closed down a few years back, and had a closing-down sale which me and a few mates went to on a quiet afternoon. We knew they dismantled cars (at their other yard) and we knew they sold damaged repairables, but we didn't know they had shed after shed of NOS stock that they'd bought from dealer closing sales, or motor factors, or all sorts of sources.
I didn't have a list of Audi bits, and in truth there weren't that many, certainly nothing that jumped out at me. But I did find quite a haul of stuff that fits my Vauxhalls, including
Inner wheel bearings (unique to this and one other Vauxhall model)
Genuine accessory door mirrors
A new cylinder head
Water pumps
A new clutch pedal (like on TTs, they always break or deform)
A new drivers door skin
and a load of other stuff, bits and pieces, weird trim clips and things.
Prices were good from the start, but were quite a bit lower by the last weekend. I spent a Sunday afternoon digging through crates of dealer bits and came away with a boot full (not as much as you might think, the boot in question is a TT Roadster) of various GM parts for not much money at all.