Their motto should be "a junkyard that cares" never ever ever in my life have I ever had such a…read moregood experience at a salvage yard. Usually I get "what do you want?" "Sure" "click" I always am greeted by a pretty friendly voice. They are fast convenient and honest. They sent me the wrong thing by accident and then made sure they sent the right thing to me by checking with me and mailed out the correct part the next day along with an apology. These small values are what will keep them open forever and keep me a customer for life.

In 2016 purchased 2007 Camry for daughter from a large local Toyota dealer. It didn't last long,…read moresee my review from 11/16/2016. This was the second used car in row that was a POS and needed engine too soon after purchase. Not feasible at time to buy new it was either another used car crap-shoot or buy used engine. Since I tried both small and large dealerships with same results decided to try luck at buying an engine. Our mechanic found engine online at Carney & Sons with around 50K mileage for very reasonable price. The delivery charge to Des Moines was also quite reasonable and even delivered the short week of Thanksgiving. The reason waited so long to review is that wanted to ensure engine lived up to expectation. No longer have Camry but the engine worked flawlessly and provided great piece of mind. Finally made used car decision that paid off in long run. Email and phone support was prompt, courteous and transaction was smooth no issues whatsoever. Thanks again.

I was having difficulty with my 2005 poniac bonivill's transmission. I went to several salvage…read moreyards but they were disorganized and unhelpful. When I went to sunset Beach auto parts I was greeted and helped imminently. They offered installation on the site which was good because I couldn't transport the transmission. I would go back if anything else were to go wrong with my car.

I was and had been looking for some good tires and rims for my car. After several phone calls and…read morerecommendations I thought I would make one more stop and I found sunset auto salvage. They thought they found the perfect set for me but when mounted wheels were hitting calipers. I was disappointed for about fifteen seconds as they found another set of wheels that would fit and mounted the tires from the other rims that would not fit and I was back on the road in about an hour. They even threw in a space saver rim and tire so I had a spare. Will highly recommend them, Rich Indianola Iowa

I got a flat tire in a parking lot while picking up dinner the other night. In horror I realized…read morethat my jack was in my girlfriends car so I was at the mercy of having to wait for roadside assistance to come help me get my spare tire on. Before I even had time to make the call, a gentleman pulled up and began placing a jack under my car. He then told me I could keep the jack as he and his family run a salvage yard here in town. That gentleman's name was Chris Bell and he saved me an enormous amount of time and anger that evening. A good man who went out of his way to help me like that deserves a shout out and good review. Please check out Bell Salvage in Ames for all your metal and appliance salvaging needs! It's right across the street from Carney's auto salvage yard.

From the owner: Serving Ames, Boone and the surrounding communities since 1982!…read more Bell Salvage is a family owned business and has been serving Ames, Boone and the surrounding communities for 28 years. Bell Salvage will pay you for all types of steel and metals. Some of the items we recycle are listed below. Call for current prices.We recycle: Iron Steel Copper Brass Aluminum Tin Wire Stainless Farm Machinery Autos Radiators Catalytic Converters BatteriesWe have a large truck scale as well and an inside scale for weighing materials. There are 20-, 30- and 40-yard roll-off containers available for drop off at your site also.Call or stop in today.

I bought a vehicle for my daughter mid-April for $6000. In 10 days the drive shaft fell out of it…read morewhile she was in downtown Des Moines. Dale towed it back to his lot and we paid another $500 to have that replaced. (Side note: Have you ever known of anyone whose DRIVE SHAFT FELL OFF? I haven't.) That didn't bother me too much because I figured it would be one repair and done. But, after they made that repair the car was pulling badly to the right and Dale wouldn't address the problem. (It had not been pulling to the right before the drive shaft fell out, so I'm assuming they didn't do something correctly when they replaced it.) Other things were also going wrong, the locks wouldn't operate with the automatic buttons, my daughter would have to climb from the front seats to the back to manually pull up the lock, which was difficult to do with her fingers because there wasn't much to grab hold of. My granddaughters certainly couldn't do it, they weren't strong enough. The back windshield over the hatchback was rattling loose and about to fall out, and a few other things weren't quite right. We had made an appointment to have another shop find out why it was pulling hard to the right and to fix all the odds and ends. Before her appointment at that shop, she was driving home and as she pulled off 235 onto 63rd street and was stopped at the light to turn right, people in the lane next to her were yelling for her to GET OUT OF YOUR CAR, IT'S ON FIRE!!! And it was, from underneath there was a fire. She got out of the car, the fire department showed up and put out the fire. I said, "How did you get home honey? Well the policemen gave me a ride the remaining 3 blocks to the house." So less than 30 days and the car was totaled. I called Dale and he had nothing to offer. Except that he had other cars for sale, since she would obviously be looking again for a car, and he wanted to be our friend. I said, "I don't think I can afford to be your friend any more, Dale." If my granddaughters had been in the back seat and hadn't been able to get out, and the fire department hadn't arrived soon...Horrible Also, the previous car she had been driving had been taken to a shop when it broke down and was told they couldn't fix it, there was a problem with the computer chip that controlled the electronics of basically the whole vehicle, and it would cost more than the value of the vehicle to replace/repair that. Dale charged us $100 for that vehicle to be towed to his salvage yard. In the meantime he replaced the chip in that vehicle with something from his salvage yard I assume, and put it for sale for $7000. I doubt his fix will last long but I think that car has already been sold to some other sucker like us who believes Dale's talk like, "I just want to get your daughter into a reliable car and take care of whatever else she needs, we will do oil changes as needed and you can call us any time with any concerns." She called him over and over about all the things that were happening and got nothing but blowoffs. For example we asked him when we bought it if he thought it needed an oil change right away, as in, do you know when it had an oil change last? And Dale said, "Just drive it for a while and see how it does and if it needs an oil change soon just bring it in." That was the last time he said he would take care of her. And the mechanic there even said to her when she picked up the "new" car, "Oh, you're not going to be happy about this but we already fixed your old car and have it up for sale!" He was actually BRAGGING about fleecing us basically. So no, I would DEFINATELY NOT buy anything from this place until at the very least you have a good mechanic look it over from head to toe before you make an offer, and probably not even then. I have not been this disappointed in any purchase I've made from a used car dealer ever before, and I've bought a fair amount of used cars in my time on this earth. Dale is not even embarrassed by this. He said, "Well I don't know what she has been doing since she drove it off the lot." Well Dale, she has been driving it around Des Moines, to work downtown and to take her girls back and forth from school and to/from school activities. She was driving it down Grand Avenue when the drive shaft fell off. She was driving it down 235 onto the exit for Windsor Heights when it caught on fire. Dale said, "Well, I've seen these things happen, there might have been some grease from an axel or something (I actually cannot recall EXACTLY where he thought grease would be leaking out from, that would catch on FIRE for some reason), I've just seen these things happen with used cars, so I can't help you." We are suing him for bad practice, and I doubt if we have a chance in hades to win but I hope it costs him something to fight the case. And I plan on filing grievances with any public agency that tracks these kinds of businesses. Because it just isn't right, even if it is legal. He knew what he was selling.

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