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                                                                Exhibit 3.1(iii)

                            CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT

                                       OF

                          CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

         LKQ Corporation, a corporation organized and existing under and by
virtue of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware,

         DOES HEREBY CERTIFY:

         FIRST: That the Board of Directors of said corporation adopted
resolutions proposing and declaring advisable the following amendments to the
Certificate of Incorporation of said corporation:

                  RESOLVED, that, subject to the consummation of the proposed
         initial public offering of the Company's common stock, the Certificate
         of Incorporation of LKQ Corporation be amended by changing the Fourth
         Article thereof so that, as amended, said Article shall be and read as
         follows:

                  The total number of shares of all classes of capital stock
                  which the corporation shall have authority to issue is five
                  hundred million (500,000,000) shares of common stock, par
                  value $.01 per share.

                  RESOLVED, that, subject to the consummation of the proposed
         initial public offering of the Company's common stock, the Certificate
         of Incorporation of LKQ Corporation be amended by changing the Fifth
         Article thereof so that, as amended, said Article shall be and read as
         follows:

                  Meetings of the stockholders may be held within or outside the
                  State of Delaware, as the bylaws may provide. Any action
                  required or permitted to be taken by the stockholders of the
                  corporation must be effected at a duly called annual or
                  special meeting of stockholders of the corporation and may not
                  be effected by any consent in writing by such stockholders.
                  Special meetings of the stockholders of the corporation may be
                  called only by the President of the corporation or by a
                  resolution adopted by the affirmative vote of a majority of
                  the board of directors.

         SECOND: That the aforesaid amendments were duly adopted in accordance
with the applicable provisions of Section 242 of the General Corporation Law of
the State of Delaware.

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         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, said LKQ Corporation has caused this certificate to
be signed by Victor M. Casini, its Vice President, this ____ day of
September, 2003.

                                   LKQ CORPORATION


                                   By: ____________________________
                                   Name: Victor M. Casini
                                   Title: Vice President