Fixing your car with second-hand parts

When there was something wrong with their cars, most Japanese drivers take the cars to the dealer’s maintenance shops to get them fixed at dealers such as Toyota and Nissan. When a mechanic gives them a quote, most people just accept it without even a glance and book their cars in. In this case, the parts they use at dealer’s shops are usually brand new.

However, recently, some dealers started recommending the change to second-hand (recycled) parts. Recycle parts are taken out of deregistered cars and stocked by recycle parts traders. They have a wide range of parts from exterior parts such as door mirrors and doors to machinery parts like drive shafts. For dealers, selling new parts is definitely more profitable and better financially. So, I was wondering why they recommend using second-hand parts to their customers.

I found the answer the other day when I visited a car dealer near our office. Inside, I saw quite a few brochures recommending parts change with used parts, clearly in display. So when I found a mechanic who I sometimes do business with, I asked him the reason behind this sudden change. According to him, among the people who bring their cars in to his shop, more of them tell him that they want to reduce their maintenance cost. After checking the quote, they specify the parts they want him to fix. From the dealer’s stance, when he writes up the quote, he does not add any unnecessary services on it; thinking about safe driving in the future, he recommends the parts changes or the services. So when there are so many bits overlooked by the customer, it means that it will not be safe for the car going back on the road. However his customers only want him to fix the urgent problems and now more cars are brought in straight after the service with other problems where he knew would be the problem sooner or later. Even if it was his customer’s decision, dealers want to avoid big accidents later on because of that. That is why he recommends them not new parts but reasonably priced second-hand parts to save the cost so that all the problems would be fixed altogether. Dealers also think that even if they cannot make much money from parts, they can make profit from their maintenance services, so it is still profitable.

Lately, some large insurance companies gives their customers 5% discount in their car insurance premium under the condition that they preferentially chose used parts for maintenance.
Using recycled parts means using our resources again. It is good for our environment and for our wallet. At JPC, for customers from certain countries, we started selling “half-cuts” by cutting cars in half to send in a container from the dash board to front bumper only. In this way, you can use many more parts as parts, such as the engine and other front parts. If you are interested, please send an enquiry to our staff.



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