Across our network we literally remove tonnes of OEM equipment from customer vehicles each year, most of which is consciously left with us by the customer.
As I've mentioned, all discarded OEM gear is either recycled or binned. Each store is individually responsible for how this is handled. Suffice to say though, that the overall effort and cost to discard these unwanted components is substantial.
We certainly don't intentionally loot customer vehicles in order to make a profit. In all cases, our preference would be for customers to take this equipment with them and discard of it themselves.
In some cases (tyre distributors for example) businesses actually charge the customer a fee for the disposal of unwanted parts. We haven't gone down this path.
Cheers, Sam.
