Sell stolen car parts

By selling parts of a car will get high income for thieves, the most common reason for auto theft is to dismantle and sell the parts of the vehicle. Parting out a stolen car can give a thief up to four times better income what would be gained by selling the whole car. Auto theft rings will set up shops called as "chop shops" where the stolen car will get stepped down for the parts in a matter of minutes.

Many times the thieves will partner with dishonest work shop, mechanics and auto body shops to buy the parts at a major discount, only to turn around and charge the customer full price.

Chop shop in US

Actually car theft was started in the year of 1970s, after that the decade of stolen vehicle they started Chop shop to dismantle the parts and started selling spare parts of car in the year of 1978. At that time 55% of stolen car were chopped for parts.

Illegally car chops were started all over the country. Every 40 seconds Truck or a Car is stolen in United States of America. Law enforcement efforts to control Chop shops but they have the identity of Nut and Bolt sellers.