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Used cars in Japan

Category: Cars - June 9, 2009

Japanese Used cars are some of the best selling on the market today because of their reliability and performance. Having said that, we find there is a large market for used car parts. Some of the dealers have found it profitable to take cars apart, sell the pieces to other dealers, and repair shops around the world. Did you know they will even cut a vehicle in half? Yet they keep all the important parts in tact.

They then ship those parts to a dealer that is repairing a car that had been involved in an accident. They dismantle badly damaged cars and have separate bins for headlamps, taillights, shocks, fuse boxes, radios. Anything that you can think of, that goes into a car, can be salvaged and sold to repair shops around the world. Have a steering wheel that won’t unlock? No problem! Go to your nearest repair shop and they can order you the part you need. They have a sophisticated database that allows them to search for any part.

Its amazing the network they have for finding parts to replace on cars before they sell them. They take pride in their work and like to make sure everything is in good working order before they sell. The certified inspectors make sure everything will pass the rigid guidelines in each country. They have it down to a science the way they can take a car apart and get it ready for shipping anywhere in the world.

They ship the parts in bins on large cargo ships. The containers are anywhere from 20 to 40 ft long and they fill them with bumpers, fenders, half cars, and bins of various parts all headed to the salvage yards just waiting to be pick out to repair your vehicle. Just like new once the body shop is done with the paint job you would never know there were two different pieces to this car when it started.

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