Why use recycled parts?

Why use recycled parts from the ARA website

The professional automotive processing industry has long advocated consumer choice and a competitive auto parts market. Every day, more than 500,000 recycled original parts are sold directly to vehicle owners, repair shops, and car dealers. Using recycled original parts to repair your car is perhaps the cleanest form of recycling. Recycled parts will significantly reduce the cost of repairing your car without compromising on quality. Choose recycled parts!

 

Cost

Genuine recycled, original equipment (OEM) auto parts sold by ARA member companies play a critical economic role in the market, giving consumers the choice of auto repair. Without the availability of recycled original parts, there would often be no alternative to an expensive “new” part.

Most insurance policies allow the use of recycled parts for car repairs and are aware that recycled OEM parts offer quality, safe parts at a fraction of the cost of new OEM parts. Due to the complexity of a modern vehicle, for a consumer who is driving a 7-year-old vehicle that is involved in an accident, this vehicle will be declared complete loss in 75 percent of cases. Using recycled original parts helps to extend the life of many cars that would be prematurely taken off the road.

In addition to recognizing the cost of recycled OEM parts in the insurance and collision repair industry, state courts have also decided. In 2015, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals affirmed the use of emergency / recycled OEM parts for auto repair, found that recycled parts were diametrically different from aftermarket parts, and applauded auto insurers for taking premium cost reduction measures for their customers.

Quality

Professional car recycling operations provide reliable procedures for ensuring product quality and quality control to identify parts that do not meet industry standards. These operational precautions distinguish parts sold by ARA member companies from parts commonly referred to as landfills.

Parts sold by professional automotive refineries are recycled, original, original OEM parts that meet OEM requirements. They are original parts designed by OEMs and manufactured in accordance with OEM requirements for fit, finish, durability, reliability and safety.

The car recycling industry is becoming increasingly sophisticated in the processing, inspection, evaluation and analysis of original spare parts collected from recycled vehicles. In a typical professional car recycling facility, these processes may include checking vehicle assembly codes, obtaining images of the vehicle and its components to track vehicle parts records, checking interior colors, conditions and additional lines (seats, instrument panel). door details), assessing the extent and type of any damage, and checking the vehicle identification number. After dismantling, parts or assemblies may be inspected. These practices described are industry practices of well-organized professional car-processing enterprises.

 

 

environmental

Using recycled original auto parts to repair your car is the best choice for the environment. Automobiles are some of the most recycled products on the market today, and the reuse of high-quality original spare parts ensures the conservation of natural resources, reduces the demand for scarce landfills and plays an important role in reducing air and water pollution.

Approximately 86 percent of the vehicle’s material is used for recycling, reuse, or energy recovery. The use of recycled scrap metal and steel reduces the use of new iron ore. Each ton of new steel made from scrap metal saves:

  • 2,500 pounds. iron ore
  • 1,400 pounds. coal
  • 120 pounds. Limestone

In addition to conserving natural resources, car recycling plays an important role in reducing air and water pollution and the generation of solid waste. Each year, the industry collects and reuses or processes approximately:

  • 8 million gallons of gasoline and diesel
  • 24 million gallons of engine oil
  • 8 million gallons of engine coolant
  • 5 million gallons of windshield washer fluid
  • 96% of all lead acid batteries

Additional energy and resource savings are achieved by processing recoverable “core” parts into the automotive parts recovery industry.

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