Anyone have any experience with this? if so, worth the time and effort? Also what would be the best way to part one out, Craigslist,***,etc

Depends for what car, and how high the demand for parts is, can make good money if you know what to look for and if you have the time to dedicate into taking the whole car apart.

Car specific forums are a huge help when you're trying to sell car stuff in general. Focus most of your efforts there, but don't neglect other outlets, like CL.

Noted and I appreciate the help man

Like he mentioned. Mainly depends on the car. I worked in a salvage yard ish type company. We parted the entire thing down to the shell. We used our website, ***, craigslist, car-part. And now their new website. I'd check out car-part.com and look up all the major parts of your car and see how much some of the big stuff is worth. Then decide whether it's worth it.

I've done it, gave 200 for a car and profited about 1400, but it was NOT easy. A lot of work pulling parts on demand and getting them shipped out. Nobody wants to buy a car part that might be bad so you should probably have proof the engine ran, transmission worked, stuff like that. A video is worth 1,000,000 words. It took me almost a year to strip the car down and get it sold then I scrapped the shell with nothing more than a rear bumper and cover attached for almost $200.

You'll have to find a car specific forum site or two to get rid of everything, I don't think it would have been worth the time and effort if I had to rely on zbay, cl, and local papers alone, but the extra $20 a week was pretty nice. The kids got a bunch of new toys out of the deal anyway.

Don't forget a STOCK catalytic converter is worth 80-150 at a scrap yard all by itself.

Very informative and I appreciate man

a lot of scrap yards want proof of ownership of the vehicle the converter came off of though. he should definitely look into rules about converters at his local scrapper. so many people just cut them off of cars on the street. we had someone robbed a scrap yard of a bunch of converters (thousands of dollars worth) and sold them to a scrap yard about 50 miles away.

If Ur parting it out to make $ no

If u need some stuff off it, yes

This.
Its pretty damned difficult to put the parts in front of someone who wants them without some sort of network already established. You're going to be stuck with a car half way torn down in your garage taking up space for a long time.
Now...if you knew a guy...and he had people waiting for the parts(like a third of the viable parts on the car)...It would be a great way to make a fast buck > just scrapping the car.

Part out Hondas through craigslist, I used to do it up north and have them pull the parts they need, usually make 1000 to a couple thousand if you pick up the right Honda. Parts in florida are too cheap and plentiful though so not possible here.

Try and by swapped wrecked civics and integras. for less than a grand and youll make money if they are decent condition minus the wreckage, and as long as its to the side or didn't damage any of the drivetrain
Up in jersey a b18a or b is worth 750 for just the motor no trans in good condition, another 200-400 for a good trans. that's your money back right there. the rest is just gravy.

My best flip was actually my turbo hatch I bought for 900$ not wrecked, but got in a wreck myself when a turkey ran onto the road and the truck in front of me came to a complete stop, no anti lock break FTMFL luckily it just damaged rad support and my hood. So I parted it out and made 2400$ because it had full gsr interior, a jdm d15 dual vtec, full magnaflow exhaust yada yada. The completel gutted shell wih a clean title sold for 900$ itself which is what I got the whole thing for. Didn't have a dash speedo doors nothing.

forgot the funniest part about this car, 3 years later the police contacted me saying they found my stolen civic hatchback and I was like what the hell? Turns out the people I sold it to made it into a track only car and it got stolen. But I had already moved to florida and didn't bother going back up north to see if it was a driveable car that I could have gotten back for free.

This post was edited by DuckManParkey on Jan 17 2014 09:46am