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I need a part from a breakers yard. The yard says bring your own tools and take what you want. The part I need is behind the dashboard.

Generally at breakers yards, am I okay to go there with a few crowbars and yank the entire dash out just to get my part? I tried calling and asking them but no one is picking up.

Ta :)
 
From what I've read you need to unscrew and remove the seats to make space to unscrew the centre console out, remove the audio device, remove shed loads of screws from the dash, get behind the dash and remove some more screws to take out the heater blower directional switch.

It's a bit long tbh! :p
 
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You could always email a few people breaking cars on ebay? You know the ones with an auction for a wheel nut, you email them and ask for the part - they pull it out and post it to you
 
They tend to prefer it if you don't destroy parts of the car in the process of removing pieces.

The bonus of removing it properly is that you get a bit of practice in before you fit it to your car, unless you're planning on using a couple of crowbars to yank the entire dash out of your own car?
 
I'm free to do it tomorrow only and have a long journey in a few days so need the heater blower directional switch for the journey - having the air con aimed at the windscreen is not a nice feeling in the summer.
 
godinman said:
The bonus of removing it properly is that you get a bit of practice in before you fit it to your car, unless you're planning on using a couple of crowbars to yank the entire dash out of your own car?
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This, its been very useful for me in the past to do this.
 
I tend to do as much damage to my car putting dash's back together as I do to the donor car when removing said part..... :o

I have practiced a couple of times dismantling the e36 in a breakers, but its dash never goes back together properly, which is why I don't want to pull my dash apart to fix my blowers..... :o
 
I used a battery powered Jigsaw (among other things) to obtain my passenger door lock mechanism from a breakers yard.

Does that make me a bad person? :o
 
godinman said:
They tend to prefer it if you don't destroy parts of the car in the process of removing pieces.

The bonus of removing it properly is that you get a bit of practice in before you fit it to your car, unless you're planning on using a couple of crowbars to yank the entire dash out of your own car?
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that way if you break any screws etc.. when removing you know what to watch out for when you do it :D
 
matt_fsr said:
I used a battery powered Jigsaw (among other things) to obtain my passenger door lock mechanism from a breakers yard.

Does that make me a bad person? :o
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Naah.

I have seen people removing doors with cutting gear rather than un-bolting them....... :confused:
 
I went there this morning. Before I did use the crowbar extraction method I asked first. They were fine with this as the car was "only a Focus mate. Do what you want."

They wouldn't have me doing the same on the old Jag I saw in the yard. ;)

So yeh, I got my switch! :p
 
R420LA6X2/4MNA said:
I have seen people removing doors with cutting gear rather than un-bolting them....... :confused:
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Thats bizarre. When I took the Mondeo door off the scrap one it was 4 bolts, and the electrics plug. Some people are truly braindead :p

I didnt cause "THAT" much damage to the merc door in question, I was just surgically cutting a few struts here and there, as you do :) Was running low on both battery power and time to get the part out!

Most scrapyards couldn't give a monkeys how you get the part out. They seem to operate on 'A bird in the hand' theory mostly.

I'd still recommend carefully removing the dash though, as others have said - best practice you can find, knowing that its not your car.

"Oh, they put a screw THERE?" :confused: :p
 
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