Kinsella’s Salvage & Recovery

Shocking lack of basic manners. I enquired about a car part today and was told the price was € 50. I said that a mechanic told me it should cost no more than € 20. The individual I spoke to said «you can tell your mechanic that he must have slept with you if the part only costs € 20». Once I got over the shock, I said, you are being too rude so I am going to hang up now. I was incredulous that anyone would speak to another human being like that. Avoid Kinsella’s like the plague.

«HOW MUCH???» Ok, I didn’t have to yell… nor indeed did I have to break down in tears afterwards… a strange, short, fat, balding, red-​faced and blubbering 35 year old man shocked to the very core of his being at being told that a replacement mirror plus housing for the passenger door of his Volvo is going to cost 500Euro from the Volvo dealership. (yeah, I know… never go to the dealer, but this is a custom part, the wing mirror from my old micra is just not going to look right is it!?).
After the tears dried up I started ringing round the scrap yards and to a man they had never heard of a Volvo S60… until I happened upon Kinsella’s Car Dismantlers. I spoke to Bob, he was very curt on the phone — but I later realised this is because he spends his day on the phone to people like me «I… er… em… kind of need a bit for a nineteen sixty doodle ford piebald in ultra maroon if you’ve got it…»… the man is a saint.
They had the mirror — all in — 50 Euro and when it came to collecting it they went out of their way to make sure there’d be someone there (I was calling late on a Saturday afternoon) — they close at 4 by the way, worth noting.
I cant praise nor thank the guys enough, they are friendly, helpful and not at all expensive — even when they KNOW that they have something you need and no one else has it… which I think is tremendous.