About Us

Brown's Auto Salvage

History

Brown's Auto Salvage was started in 1976 by Mark and Joan Brown in Bomoseen, Vermont. The uniquely self sufficient, hard working and environmentally conscious culture of Vermont has shaped us into the largest and most technologically advanced facilities in the state.

Business Practises

Brown's Auto Salvage

To succeed in a competitive field, we needed to differentiate ourselves from the competition. Understanding that more than price affects a customers loyalty, we set out to ensure that the parts buying experience at Brown's is easier, more reliable, and a better deal than the experience you would find at a dealership, auto supply store or another salvage yard. How do we do this?

People

We ensure that our staff's knowledge goes far beyond the necessary automotive and computer expertise needed to find and ship parts nation-wide. They understand how essential a vehicle is to the day to day life of the customers we serve. More than making a sale, their goal is to make you happy and get your car on the road ASAP by keeping promises and making deadlines.

Parts

Brown's Auto Salvage

Service and warranties aside, you need to know that the part you're buying is of the highest quality. We only seek out late model, low mileage vehicles for parts cars. When vehicles make it to the dismantling process, we ensure all dismantlers have been trained in the proper techniques to remove and clean parts. We only allow for unbolted parts on our shelves, no cutoff metal brackets. Finally, when a part is sold, we clean and inspect it again before delivery.

Environmental Commitment

When "green" management practices are put in place, auto recycling is an undeniably green industry. When you consider the tremendous volume of vehicles retired each year (more than five million End of Life Vehicles (ELV's) produced in the United States annually) you see the need for recycling facilities. For more information on industry-wide practices, what gets recycled, and where the materials go, click here.

On site we utilize a number of practices to protect our local environment. Starting when vehicles arrive at our facility, it is a general rule to not just report, but immediately drain any leaking vehicle. Further on in the process, we make a point to only move vehicles once (to our indoor dismantling facility) before they are drained. This ensures that no accident could cause a fluid spill.

By weight, 75% of a vehicle is recycled, making motor vehicles the most recyclable complex, mass-produced product on earth. When a car is dismantled, we reuse fluids such as windshield washer fluid and anti-freeze. Motor oil is used for heating our facility. Soft interior products like carpeting, rubber, and plastic are recycled into other products such as soda bottles or even the carpeting in your house and of course, metals are melted down into new products.

Finally, the way we process and deliver parts produces as small of an impact on the environment as possible. When the application allows, we use water rather than parts cleaner to wash parts. To filter the water, it runs through a live bacteria culture designed to feed off the hydrocarbons and other residue. After the bacteria have their fill, clean clear water is pumped back into our system.

Finally, in the delivery process, we use recycled packing materials for our shippable parts. If you are within our delivery range, the truck that brings you your part will even be running on recovered gasoline from ELV's. At every step of the way, we do our best to reduce the size of our carbon footprint and take every opportunity to do better.

• The Vermont Governors Award for Environmental Excellence in Pollution Prevention
• The EPA on Brown's Auto Salvage

Finally what really sets us apart is our customer service and easy accessibility.

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