Borroughs Flexi-Bin Parts Department for Young Subaru in South Ogden, Utah

In June 2024, Young Subaru’s parts manager contacted our team with a clear starting point. The dealership already used Borroughs Flexi-Bin units for small parts and Borroughs closed shelving with box-edge shelves for larger boxed parts. It was moving into a new parts department and wanted the same Borroughs system there, plus bulk storage racks for the items that do not fit on parts shelving.

That is a common situation for established dealerships. The parts team knows its inventory, its bin locations and its picking habits. Staff are used to the way Flexi-Bin shelves and dividers work. A move is a chance to fix what did not fit in the old room, but it is not the time to retrain everyone on a different shelving system.

The existing room also showed a detail the dealership wanted to keep: blue Borroughs units with yellow plastic shelf bins holding the smallest parts. Carrying that look into the new room was part of the brief.

Flexi-Bin is built from separate frame components, which is how this order was supplied: sides, backs, tops and automotive bottoms, plus the shelves and dividers that go inside. Borroughs Flexi-Bin frames are 12 inches deep, and this order used the 84-inch frame height. The shallow depth keeps small parts at the front of the shelf where they can be seen and picked, instead of sliding to the back of a deep shelf.

Because the frames are made of components, a parts room can be built as long runs of connected units rather than stand-alone boxes. The slotted side panels visible in the photos carry the slide-in shelves.

Flexi-Bin slide-in shelves (Borroughs part 02720-099) adjust on 1-1/2-inch increments and lock in place automatically. Borroughs states they can be raised or lowered without disturbing the parts on them, and rates each shelf at 150 lbs. For a parts department that is moving, that matters after the move as well as before it. Once parts are on the shelves and the team sees how the new room works, openings can be re-spaced without unloading them.

The order included Flexi-Bin 3-inch sliding shelf dividers (part 14066-001). Borroughs makes these dividers in 1-1/2, 3, 4-1/2 and 6-inch heights, and each has a formed-in label holder that travels with the divider when parts are rearranged. Dividers split each shelf into compartments sized for the parts in them, so one opening can hold several part numbers and each stays in its own labeled slot.

During planning the parts team specifically asked which shelving sections would include dividers. That is a question worth asking on any Flexi-Bin quote, because dividers are what turn open shelf space into countable part locations.

Not every part belongs in a 12-inch-deep Flexi-Bin opening. Boxed parts such as brake components, filters in cases and body parts need deeper shelves. The dealership already used Borroughs closed shelving with box-edge shelves for these, so the new room repeated that pattern, with sliding dividers and label holders on the box-edge shelves as well.

Borroughs drawer units, mounted inside the shelving on drawer mounting uprights, took the loose hardware that tends to migrate on an open shelf. Drawers with compartment inserts keep those items together and out of sight lines at the counter. For more on the rest of the Borroughs parts-room range, see our Borroughs automotive shelving page.

The bulk storage racks the dealership asked for were Borroughs Rivet-Span open shelving, with wire decking and solid decking on the levels. Rivet-Span handles the items that do not suit parts shelving: bulky boxed parts, accessories and overflow stock. Rivet-Span tire beams turned a wall into tire storage, and a Borroughs battery rack kit with a drip pan gave batteries their own dedicated rack.

In spring 2025 the dealership came back to ask us for a quote on added battery rack lane dividers. That kind of follow-on request is normal once a parts team is working in a new room and fine-tuning where things live.

Tire beams sit between Rivet-Span uprights so tires rest on the beams rather than on a flat shelf. For tire storage options beyond the parts room, see our tire storage systems page.

Use your parts data. If you can export a parts list from your dealer management system, our SKU upload analyzer can help turn part counts into shelf, divider and drawer quantities before layout starts.

Anchoring questions. Our parts room shelving anchoring guide covers the usual questions for Utah dealerships, from slab condition to back-to-back runs.