LKQ Self Serve

Specialties

Quality used auto parts at affordable prices. If we don’t have what you are looking for, we have a locator service to find the parts needed and have them shipped to our local location. Also available are quality new parts by Keystone.

History

Established in 1998.

LKQ Corporation was founded in 1998 with the purchase of Triplett Automotive Recycling of Akron, Ohio. We sought out to build a company that would gain a reputation for the quality and consistency it offered. Some in the industry doubted that a new national conglomerate could successfully accomplish, and cost-​effectively garner, this reputation from customers, as customers from one side of the country received parts from an unknown supplier. Despite such concerns, LKQ grew into a network of 38 salvage yards and 12 distribution centers, operating across the continental US by the early 2000s.

LKQ continued to expand its market share by moving into the aftermarket replacement parts. In 2004, the sales of the aftermarket parts began with the acquisition of Global Trade Alliance. By 2007, we doubled in size with the Keystone Automotive acquisitions, as well as acquisitions of self-​service used parts facilities, in which customers remove their own parts from wrecked vehicles.