Date:         Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:56:05 -0800
Reply-To:     John Bange <jbange@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         John Bange <jbange@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: good finds at wreckers
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>  Don't forget the 99 relay, which gives you a delay option for your
> wipers- goes something like 2 seconds up to 20 seconds.  Swaps with
> the 19 relay.
>

I was at the local pick a part today. I go about once a year. Very
disappointing. There's almost never any Vanagons, but there's normally at
least a dozen similar-vintage VWs to pick at. This time, there were only
FOUR Volkswagens total, and they'd been stripped down to almost nothing. I
did find a 99 relay while sifting through the detritus left on the floor of
one car, though. Nothing else good.

If you drive a Volvo though.... there were at least 70 of them there, all
late 80's/early 90's, all with their engines sprayed with orange spraypaint:
cash for clunkers turn-ins. According to the guy I talked to there who was
looking for BMW parts (few of those either) the stupid Cash FOr Clunkers
program has pushed out all the "decent" cars because the junkyards
apparently have to crush them within a certain time frame. I guess the Volvo
240's got traded in a lot, and the BMWs and VWs not so much. 240s must be
gas hogs in their old age.

Maybe once the C4C crap is over with we'll start seeing more "good" cars.

--
John Bange