Scrap Price for Wheels

[snoopdoggie]

Do junkyards pay the same rate for Aluminum/Alloy Wheels as they do for aluminum cans and the like? I have some 14" bullet hole wheels that I may scrap.

 

[country0001]

Scrap is scrap to them, They pay the same. Damage them first so they can't sell them to someone else tho. You'll get whatever the going price for them is, then they'll turn around and sell them for 20 bucks or whatever.

 

[BRUTUS_T_HOG]

around here they don't give much at all. plus a 2 week waiting period to get your money for aluminum, copper, brass, stuff that like

if they are good wheels you can make more off of just selling them.

 

[snoopdoggie]

around here they don't give much at all. plus a 2 week waiting period to get your money for aluminum, copper, brass, stuff that like

if they are good wheels you can make more off of just selling them.

Waiting Period? Never heard of such a thing for selling scrap. Don't think there is much demand for 14" ers. What price might they draw? They aren't damaged. Just tarnished, dirty, etc.

 

[The purple one]

Here in CT they bring about .40 lb Or about $7 each if they have no wheel weights or tires on them.

 

[BRUTUS_T_HOG]

Waiting Period? Never heard of such a thing for selling scrap. Don't think there is much demand for 14" ers. What price might they draw? They aren't damaged. Just tarnished, dirty, etc.

around here we have methheads that constantly steal metal..

we've had them steal a whole playground structure, metal stairs, copper wiring off of telephone poles.

one day i was driving and i saw a metal light pole with the side of it gashed open and the wiring stolen. looked like they took an axe to it.

so the scrap yard requires a photo ID and a 2 week waiting period. it cut down on the crime a little bit, but it still happens.

the first and last time i brought aluminum to the scrap yard i literally had to stand in a line of low-lifes that had small handfuls of copper stranded wire with the insulation all stripped off.

i had 80lbs of 100% aluminum in my truck and they were looking at it like it was CANDY.

so this is when scrap metal prices were at their highest, i had a transmission case and a cylinder head that i had to strip all rubber, plastic, and steel off of. it took hours of work.

i got $50 for all that. it was a complete waste of time

 

[snoopdoggie]

The last heads I took had one broken bolt in them. I think for the exhaust manifolds. They knocked it down from aluminum to something called "heavy industrial." Don't remember the price difference but I won't spend any more time taking anything apart that has any steel stuck in it. I have a couple transmissions that are going to go as they are.