What is an ELV center? What is the difference with a scrap car?
Technically they are synonyms. An ELV center is a car junkyard, a place where cars at the end of their life are treated and cleaned up. Since the 2000s and the new regulations, enormous progress has been made in terms of depollution and recovery of these vehicles. Since 2015, VHU centers even have the duty to recycle 95% of a car.
Moreover, there are still today many "wild" car scrapyards which are not approved by the Ministry of the Environment because they do not respect the conditions for depolluting vehicles. By freeing themselves from this depollution, these companies not only do not respect the law but also degrade the environment. They are also generally less careful about the quality and origin of the parts sold and do not offer the same guarantees as approved ELV centres. To make sure you are in a quality and authorized ELV centre, ask for the approval number.
Today, the largest ELV centers are real automobile dismantling factories. Experts check each part to ensure that they are in good working order and that the exterior elements are in good aesthetic condition. Parts that do not meet the specifications are recycled and the best parts are resold.
You should know that there are 1,500,000 vehicles in Ontario every year that end their lives in an ELV center. About 450,000 vehicles come from insurance, that is to say damaged vehicles that are technically irreparable or whose repair cost is higher than the value of the car (economically irreparable vehicles). All of these vehicles still have many serviceable parts. Each VHU center therefore assigns each vehicle a police book number which allows you to know all the information about a car (make, model, mileage, date of entry into service, license plate, etc.). Each part is attached to the police book number of the car from which the part was taken, thus guaranteeing traceability and preventing the concealment of parts whose provenance is not guaranteed.
The parts, once verified, are offered for sale again under warranty. Indeed, professionals having taken charge of checking the parts, they can guarantee their proper functioning. There is therefore only a small risk in buying used parts today.
Why Buy Used Parts?
There are two main reasons for buying reused parts. The price and the environment.
Reused parts have a big advantage over new parts, they are less expensive. Indeed there are reductions of 40% to 70% of the price of the occasion compared to the price of new. Over the past ten years, the price of new parts has increased by 40%, so the opportunity allows you to significantly lower the bill. In addition, and this is a second real advantage of reused parts, it is ecological since the circular economy (this is the name of this way of consuming second-hand products) promotes working parts that can be reused without no problem, to the detriment of new products, consumers of ever more raw materials.
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