Where do RV's go to die?

Visonerv.com

path1 wrote:
More and more are dying in my neighborhood

Ha, I was going to say that I've encountered some of them at some of the RV parks in which I have stayed from time to time...!

When I'm done with one, it's ready for the scrapper. I keep them until they fall apart, literally. Average ownership for me is 10 years, I don't change RV's like I change socks.

I would say most totalled or older units are scrapped. A commercial shredder can separate everything, from plastic to cloth to aluminum to steel, all in one continuous process with each material put in a pile for later recycling. They eat engines and transmissions and rear ends whole and spit out little chunks ready to be remelted.

Way back when, I used to haul Chevy pickups from Pontiac, Michigan to Toledo to be shredded. Whole pickup trucks, tires and all that were assembly line rejects. I'd back a dump trailer into the dock with the tailgate open and they'd shove a line of trucks in with a hi-lo. I'd shut the door and take them to Toledo to get shredded, 10 at a time, every couple days. Went in whole, came out in small pieces.

I would imagine an old / wrecked RV would shred easier.

Here in Austin, I've seen trailers be parked in a residential area or a public parking lot, stripped of all useful stuff (A/C, tongue jack), put on blocks with the wheels removed, and eventually the city comes around and gets rid of it, on the taxpayer dime.

Five Star RV in Henderson (just north of Denver) has a pretty decent size salvage yard dedicated to RV parts.

The good news is, some seem to live forever. :)
A local junk yard here has a few being dismantled.

There are RV salvage yards that buy these things and strip them of usable parts.

More and more are dying in my neighborhood

There is a place called Visione RV that parts out RV's
Colaws Parts out RV's
A place in Arizona Parts out RV's
And there used to be a place in California that did the same but I think they are gone

I had a link at one time to a place that had all totaled motorhomes. The good parts were available for purchase. In one case the entire inside of a luxury model. The salvage companies ( there are several) bid on the wreckage and part it out You could buy windows, appliances, awnings, doors, furniture. Almost anything.