Comments on: Pick Your Part octopus cuts off Hayward tentacle

By: qodrn

qodrn — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:16:08 +0000

Don’t we have a mayor, city council and chamber of commerce that are supposed to actually do something about things like businesses closing? Hayward is becoming a wasteland. Even the DMV pulled out. Reopening that office would be a good start, because the other DMVs are not very close.

By: George

George — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 01:42:49 +0000

Pick your Part was a good yard and I had gone there since the early 1980′s. Really sorry to see it go. Now that pick N Pull has no competition, their prices have climbed and it’s really not worth going there because you can get many reman. parts from retail stores with a warranty and they cost less. Pick N Pull also does not allow yard to yard transfers anymore. Before if I could not find it in Oakland I could go down to the Fremont yard show my hand stamp and go thru the gate without paying again. Pick N Pull you suck for your high prices and having good people put out of work at Pull your Part. Hope the EPA gets you all in the end – just a matter of time.

By: Jose

Jose — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 19:41:21 +0000

u right john i also was one of them r u john car buyer of hayward or milpitas ?

By: john b

john b — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 02:33:27 +0000

been there for 5 years was the car buyer and tow truck driver … i loved this company till lkq came around everything changed alot then one by one we was all bein let go some ppl been working there for 20 yrs ..

By: john b

john b — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 02:30:57 +0000

yes and i was one of them!

By: John Q. Public

John Q. Public — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:22:13 +0000

What actually happened is PYP was sold to LKQ. LKQ and Pick n Pull traded some yards and sales operations that previously competed against each other. So Pick n Pull got the Norcal yards of PYP. Guess what no more competition, parts prices have gone up and they probably pay less for their cars. Oh yeah and they laid of close to a hundred employees, most of which had been there for many many years.

By: Joe-B

Joe-B — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 00:35:38 +0000

This sucks. Pick your Part was cheaper than Pick-N-Pull and had better inventory

By: Chem

Chem — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:31:25 +0000

PYP used to be a PRIVATE owned chain of junkyards. Around mid 2009, they sold out to LKQ Corp which is a huge public owned salvaged and after market auto parts company. LKQ already has a few used and after market parts stores located in and around the bay area and found it to be more feasable to shut down the self serve junkyards that once competed with their sales. LKQ still has their self serve PYP yards running in SoCal since they are still bringing in high profits. The word has it that some of the SoCal yards may also meet their demise due to environmental issues and public nuisance.

By: JEM

JEM — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:25:17 +0000

I’m sure the hassles of running a facility like that in California are nearly unbearable.

The Hayward yard’s been shrinking and getting less useful for the past three years or so.

By: J. W. Kyle

J. W. Kyle — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:11:19 +0000

Perhaps profitability is impaired by costs of disposal of contaminants. Then too, computerized inventories of autos having acceptable remaing parts makes trans-shipmenmt from or visits to locations where taxes and environmental regulations are a bit more relaxed to say nothing of sales taxes which affect ‘true cost’ to part seekers.;

We could go on to discuss reduced price of scrap metal etc. etc.