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About
Us
Kirchhayn Auto
Parts has been family owned and operated by the Wendtland family
since 1975. We started as a body shop in an old block building
with five acres of
"junk cars" left by the previous owner, in a small town called
Kirchhayn (which means "Church in the Woods" in German).
 While we were
running our body shop, we frequently had local people coming in
and looking for used parts off of the cars we had on the premises.
However, with the price of scrap being high at the time, we hauled
many of our car bodies to compressing companies. With the money
we made with the scrap cars, we bought more cars. Some of them
we took to the compressing companies and others we kept for inventory.
Slowly our scrapping
business was becoming a larger part of our business than the body
shop was. It was at this time we started a car inventory system.
The body shop was now just a sideline of our scrapping business
and was soon phased out altogether. The parts we sold off the cars
were just an extra bonus, until we crushed the car.
For the next
14 years, we were a successful scrapping yard, selling existing
car parts to buy more cars for scrap. In 1989, we purchased an
additional 5 acres of land to accommodate the surplus cars we purchased
at insurance auctions. We also built a new building which houses
our current sales area and our dismantling area.
Shortly thereafter,
we were brought into the computer age with the installation of
a Hollander Yard Management System, which computerized the inventory
all of our cars. This leading edge system allows us to tell customers
in seconds if we have a part in stock. We also have locating systems
to assist in parts location should we not have the part in inventory.
Typically, we can locate any part our customer may need.
As our business
started changing and the price of scrap cars was decreasing, we
decided to change our focus to selling parts. We started buying
cars within the last 10 model years. In 1999, we made another radical
change in our company, and became partners with 14 other auto recycling
companies. Collectively, we formed a partnership called QRP (Quality
Replacement Parts). While we are all still independently owned
and operated, this partnership allows us to check the other's inventory
for parts. Since then, we have also become a Gold Seal Auto Recycler,
the most prestigious recognition available.
- Kirchhayn
Auto Parts has been a family owned business since 1975
- We have over
10 acres of car parts
- Our Hollander
Yard Management System provides instant notification of parts
availability
- We are committed
to customer satisfaction
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Serving the area
for over
25 years!
Phone:
(262) 377-5139
Toll Free:
(800) 257-2576
parts@kirchhayn.com
Hours: 8 am - 5 pm Monday - Friday
We accept Mastercard, Visa, or cash.
We no longer accept personal checks.
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