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Originally Posted by pope
From the article you linked:
I haven’t watched the “B is for Build” series to know how he reassembled his vehicle, but the autobody program I mentioned previously was teaching how to use parts from an auto recycler using a procedure that roughly corresponds to the quoted Honda procedure. In the case of the linked article the shop panel bonded the structural roof instead of welding it, but nothing in the article appears to detail whether the parts were oem replacements (often from recyclers, not overstock) or from aftermarket duplications. Recycling structural components was totally a thing, I can’t say for sure that it still is, but the availability of various structural cuts from my local recyclers leads me to believe it’s still a common and acceptable practice.
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I can assure you no OEM procedure supports recycling structural components and you cannot follow OEM procedure with it. The article had nothing to do with recycled parts but to show if you don’t follow procedure as a shop big things can happen. Using recycled structural parts might still be done but by no means is it an acceptable practice.