Yea so there is this junk yard near my house where they take wrecked vehicles but they don't let anyone in there are rows and rows of cars that have been wrecked.....Anyone know why they don't let people in to get parts or what they are doing? I am thinking about just jumping the fence one night and wondering around to see if i can find anything good i have seen some nice cars go in there and maybe i can get some performance parts off of them

The only reason they wont let u in that I can think of is that they could be from fatal accidents, and be covered in blood and all of that not safe stuff....

Yah its mostly because of safety issues they dont wanna get suied by anyone. There is a couple near my area, Ive been to 2 of them, one never let us look or go into the back, and the other one lets you go freely. Also i think its because so that people dont steal tiny parts.

THIS is why they don't let people go in the back in many junkyards nowadays....because people will scope the place out during the day, then rob them blind after hours when they close.....

break down, ask them for what you need, spend the money, and do it right instead of thieving the stuff....it only makes it harder on the rest of us who want to BUY parts, not steal em....

By stealing the parts, not only do you force the yards to shut down access to everyone, you drive the prices up on the remaining parts to account for the loss of the stolen parts....you might think "ohh, they won't miss a few small parts", but take that number of parts times the number of people who think like that....then see how many missing parts you have...

Yeah, I'll be the first to admit, I was FAR from "honest" when I was younger...then I learned my lesson the hard way, and wished I'd simply have paid for the things I'd thieved, rather than thinking I was slick....

Bottom line: If theres something you think you want, save up and buy it...if you can't afford it, you don't need it THAT bad.

As being a junk yard dawg myself, i tend to know probably why. As one person said they could be from fatal wrecks, therefore are usually a bio-hazard, When we get cars like that we immediatly crush them *basicly we drain the fluids, and crush em without taking anything off no matter what*

Also as another persons said is to prevent thievery, i know of a few around here where you have to ask for something and they search themselves and pull it themselves for you. The one i work for is not like this, although we do have a restricted access yard in the back *Well, side* these cars are just there for holding before we put them out in the field for people to take parts off. To prevent theifevry at night at our yard, well, thers a big electric fence to prevent that

And also, are you sure it is a junk yard? It might not be and be a holding lot for insurance companies to auction off the cars to the junk yards

i don't know about yards around you, but a reason not to jump the fence around here is that every yard haas 3 or 4 very large, very mean dogs. guess you never saw 'stand by me' "chopper, sick balls"

hmmm that might be a very good reason not to and i do think it is a insurance holding place...grr makes me mad there are some cool cars in there too

I worked in a junk yard when I was younger. Our dogs were dobermans. They knew me and were always fine with me but they still made me nervous. Bottom line: never sneak into a junk yard for any reason at any time.

They'll let you into the yards around here, but hesitantly. You have to let them know what you're going out there to pull, and what car you took it off etc... Too many people going in there and throwing rocks through good windows and stealing small but valuable parts.

Most established junk yard, as 86delta said, have a few damn viscious gaurd dogs that they wont even touch.

Its a shame that they cut off everyone's fun because of a few no-good people who ruin it for everyone else. I personally LOVE rummaging through the junk yard, checking out cars, seeing what different options were available over the years. Every car tells a story... The odometer will tell you how far the car has been in its life... Interesting to think that each and every car in there has had many stories to tell... If only cars could talk