ZB Salvage & Recycling 53704

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Steve

They came and picked up my old car for salvage. Fast service, no monkeying around. Professional team.

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Dan Hammer

Nothing wrong with the staff nor the owner at all. Everyone seemed really nice on the phone and easy to work with. My issue actually comes solely from the transmission I bought from them. By zero means is this their fault. Used parts are used parts after all and they don’t actually have any way of knowing if something is good or bad. I bought a 700r4 off these guys in March. It was from a 92 Chevy truck that they claimed had only 75k miles. Now of course I did not see the odometer myself so I couldn’t verify. This is fine. I got the trans home here in Iowa. Cleaned it up really well. It was caked in tons of oil and I thought that was odd for a 75k mile pickup. Cleaned it up, got every bit of grime and oil off. Spent probably 6 hours doing this cleaning and then painted it for my project car. Dropped the pan and found sludge in the pan and burnt fluid. I really should’ve known better as to what this meant but then again I’ve seen plenty of transmissions with awful fluid that drove fine.after all, this fluid might never have been changed before when it was in the pickup. Who knows right? So I put a new filter, cleaned it up and slapped a new pan on it and new cooler lines and all that jazz. Got this used trans with supposedly 75k miles in the car looking great. Hooked it up, got a new TV cable hooked up and installed. Once I got the tv cable adjusted just right (trans would shift into 2nd at 20mph as it should if adjusted right) I decided to enter my car in the Good Guys car show in Des Moines Iowa. This install took me a while and I finally had it finished at the end of June. The very first time this car hit the open highway it lasted maybe 50 miles before it lost 3rd and 4th gear. I was told the truck it came from was scrapped due to rust. At this point I have no 3rd or 4th gear in this transmission. I limped it an hour home at slow speeds in 2nd gear the whole way and didn’t make it to the show. Now the car will have to go to a local transmission shop and most likely get a rebuild that will cost me a couple grand at least. They had no way of knowing this would happen. Like i said, used parts are used parts. However I’m not fully sold that it was a 75k mile truck it came from. It’s very unfortunate. Just sucks because you spend $570 for the trans and spend months getting this install done and looking beautiful to only find out you have to dump another couple grand in a rebuild and can’t drive the car now. It’s not these guys fault, I’m just disappointed at the outcome with this transmission

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Grant Krull

I've sold 3 cars to ZB and each time they were prompt, polite, and professional. In each instance I quickly found myself with money in my pocket and a dead vehicle was no longer a problem of mine!