I got up to the u-pull-it lot yesterday to look for a replacement wiring harness for my driver side door. Although, when I got home, I had realized that the 04's harness that I pulled, had completely different connectors on just about all the ends, as compared to my 97 (who would have thought, considering the electronics operations arent any different between 94-04, assuming all equipment is power-operated). But the trip wasnt a total loss. It did give me a chance to rip apart the whole harness on a junker car before dismantling my own, which made the process go much faster on my car.
The 04 I was ravaging for parts was pretty mangled up, but for some reason, most of the interior was untouched, so for a measly $20, I got the door harness, an 04 center console, and a fresh set of new edge tail lights. On my way home I grabbed a can of vinyl aerosol dye, and dyed the console and let that dry as I was repairing the harness in my door (which I was able to repair the original harness).
So by 5pm, I had the new console in, both of my windows worked again (after 6 months of my windows stuck in the up position), and the tail lights are sitting in my basement waiting to be thoroughly cleaned and most likely tinted and resold.
Yesterday was probably the best day to go too... Although I had to walk through about 3 feet of snow, through a couple hundred cars, it was definitely worth it. There were some good pickins up there since it was obvious that the place was somewhat deserted with all the snow. Normally, if a car (especially one with junkyard-value like a Mustang or a Camaro) goes in-to the lot on a Saturday, by Monday, there wont be anything left on the car thats worth taking (ie. exhaust system, popular interior pieces, headlights and tail lights, unmolested body parts, etc). Although, since the last time I was up there, most of the mustangs were completely removed from the lot. There were about 6 or 7 mustangs there last time, probably 4 or 5 of them being sn95's. There were 3 there this time, two new edges and one fox. No v8's... in-fact, I've never seen a v8 mustang in this particular yard.
The 04 I was ravaging for parts was pretty mangled up, but for some reason, most of the interior was untouched, so for a measly $20, I got the door harness, an 04 center console, and a fresh set of new edge tail lights. On my way home I grabbed a can of vinyl aerosol dye, and dyed the console and let that dry as I was repairing the harness in my door (which I was able to repair the original harness).
So by 5pm, I had the new console in, both of my windows worked again (after 6 months of my windows stuck in the up position), and the tail lights are sitting in my basement waiting to be thoroughly cleaned and most likely tinted and resold.
Yesterday was probably the best day to go too... Although I had to walk through about 3 feet of snow, through a couple hundred cars, it was definitely worth it. There were some good pickins up there since it was obvious that the place was somewhat deserted with all the snow. Normally, if a car (especially one with junkyard-value like a Mustang or a Camaro) goes in-to the lot on a Saturday, by Monday, there wont be anything left on the car thats worth taking (ie. exhaust system, popular interior pieces, headlights and tail lights, unmolested body parts, etc). Although, since the last time I was up there, most of the mustangs were completely removed from the lot. There were about 6 or 7 mustangs there last time, probably 4 or 5 of them being sn95's. There were 3 there this time, two new edges and one fox. No v8's... in-fact, I've never seen a v8 mustang in this particular yard.
