What are Breakers and Salvage Yards?

Have you ever wondered where cars end up after at the end of their life cycle? How about decommissioned cars, ones that have been written off due to an accident? Well they end up at breakers and salvage yards, where their parts can either be used to sell on, or the car can either be sold on to be fixed back into a road worthy vehicle.
Breaker yards and salvage yards are slightly different, in that they offer customers two different things. If your car has reached the end of the road, so to speak, and it no longer works or would require expensive and lengthy work getting it back into a road worthy state, then it normally ends up at a breakers yard.
You may have seen those companies that buy cars off you, or you may have sold you car to a scrapyard or breakers yard and received a nominal fee in return, to the tune of £50 let's say. Well your vehicle, amongst many others, is literally broken down into their various parts. These parts are then sold on to customers looking to use the part in their own vehicle. It's a great way of recycling old parts, and keeping vehicles ticking over. It would seem silly for manufacturers to keep producing car parts, if there are perfectly god parts out there still good to use.

If you're in need of a spare car part, traditionally you would visit the scrapyard or breakers yard to see all of the different cars they had on display. The idea is that you would walk around to find a car similar to yours, and then someone from the yard will inspect the vehicle to see if the part that you need is still there. They would then remove that part and sell it onto you for a cut price. This is a much cheaper way of buying car parts. Nowadays, you can search online, as breaker yards display all of their cars and the parts they have broken online. This makes searching for the right part incredibly quick and easy. 
So what are salvage yards then? Well, rather than break the car into various parts, as and when that is needed, salvage yards keep the car as it arrives. In other words, the car is salvaged from a wreckage or an accident, and is no longer road worthy as a result. However, despite the cars condition and state, it does still hold value, and with plenty of work and care, the car can be restored to a road worthy condition.
Again, traditionally you would have visited these salvage yards and walked around until you found a suitable car within your price range, or one that you thought you could work with. This has also been made easier, with many salvage yards now putting their cars for sale online and in online auctions as well. Not only does this make it easier and more convenient to search for, but with an online auction, you can also bag yourself a bargain.
rch2 you've only ever dreamed of. The way you can search for cars is even easier, as cars from salvage yards can be found online, which means you search by car type, or by value if you have a particular budget.