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Advance auto closing 700 locations

I hope this isn't going to affect Carquest.
I Know it's going to affect Carquest though.....

I'm not surprised when they have 3 stores in town.
 
Do you really think it would be noticed if 15 stores were closed down here.
 

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O'Reilly is the cream of the crop in my area. Advance and vatozone are the ghetto stores with blue haired shitheads at the counter.
 
In the town of 25,000 I used to live in there were five advance auto parts and only one almost always had all the stuff I needed. I started calling that one first.

Now that I’m 20 miles from the nearest parts store, I order a lot from Amazon, parts geek and FCP. the stores usually have to order it for me so I just order it myself and wait. Saves me about 2 gallons of gas & an hour
 
I just bought 2 u-joints from them. List price was $50 each. I used a friends account and got them both for $33.


Moog ball joints were $75 each. Got all 4 for a bit over $100 off amazon.

Lots of markup in those parts.
 
MONSTERMUDDER said:
They had good promo codes for instore pickup.

I asked the manager one time how they made any money at those prices, "we don't" :laughing:
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Oh yeah, and they'd always email you coupons spend 20 get 5 free etc, on top of giving you dollars for all the money you spent, plus discount codes.
 
Those big box parts stores put the mom and pop stores out of business, now Amazon is putting them out of business.

Edit; I needed a driveshaft for a Duramx truck and the original was gone (it broke in the hood and the natives stole the driveshaft) The driveshaft shop wanted $850, Rockauto was $6xx, I key the part number into google and it pops up on Amazon for $289 shipped. I ordered it because if it didn't look good I can return it no problem.
The shaft came, looked perfect and was the exact right one.
So that a huge price range difference.

Another edit; I needed glad wrench for taking apart hydraulic cylinders and the o ring tools, I ordered from Amazon in the morning and it was delivered before I got home. Then you can't beat the price.
 
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trampas said:
There have been times when Advance/Carquest was the only place in town that had what i needed, in stock. Like effin hypoid oil...
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That's the residual Carquest.

Ours is a full machine shop (That can't hire anyone) with a distribution warehouse an hour away. It's slowly being gutted and turned into not what made it good.
 
trampas said:
There have been times when Advance/Carquest was the only place in town that had what i needed, in stock. Like effin hypoid oil...
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Hardly anything I need is ever in stock. I can't remember when I last walked in and got a part without having to order it. Even the u-joints and ball joints for a dana 44 had to be ordered in.
 
bad zuki said:
I hope this isn't going to affect Carquest.
I Know it's going to affect Carquest though.....

I'm not surprised when they have 3 stores in town.
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I've got a bookmark for searching Advance, but when I pull up locations they're Carquest.

Someone mismanaged whatever merger happened. As a consumer, I have no idea who owns what or what's closing. Terrible management.
 
subybaja said:
I've got a bookmark for searching Advance, but when I pull up locations they're Carquest.

Someone mismanaged whatever merger happened. As a consumer, I have no idea who owns what or what's closing. Terrible management.
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Its all AA management. FUBAR'd the whole thing up and they have been producing cheap parts instead of good stuff, Slowly taking warranties off etc.
 
I was working part time for advance when they bought carquest. The whole purpose was to get into the market of other countries. They really did car quest wrong in a lot of ways.

Carquest cannot charge to advance accounts, the sale has to be done at advance but the part can be picked up at carquest. 9commercial accounts.

I actually loved oreilly but their delivery went down the drain. First it was, only 2 times a day. then it was next day. I quit using them because advance had parts here instantly.

Then we had a bunch of theft at oreilly as well. People charging stuff on the account that were no longer employees. It was thousands. Funny part was, when you pull up the account I am the only person authorized to charge to the account.
But this last go around the person doing it was a friend of the store manager and did it anyway.

It was big dollars. Don't know if there will be jail time but there will be court.

So now if I need something from there I get treated like a 2nd rate citizen. forget that. Everyone deserves respect.
 
There's 3 of them within 5 miles of me and 10 locations total for the whole Pikes Peak Region (roughly 1M people).

I always forget about them. O'Reilly is my go-to, has been since they were Checker Auto Parts, and its only 1/2 mile away, after that I'll use NAPA and AutoZone or just order from Summit Racing or Amazon.
 
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Gdogg said:
Now Amazon is putting them out of business.
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Good. Every part I ever look up is 1/3 on Amazon what it costs in any of the big box parts store and I can get it faster on Amazon than having the store order it. Even basic oil change shit it's cheaper to go to Walmart than it is any off those places.

Replaced the heater core in my Jeep a couple weeks ago. $150-200 at any of the parts stores and all but one had to order it online. Amazon was $50 and here the next day.
 
Motorcharge said:
Good. Every part I ever look up is 1/3 on Amazon what it costs in any of the big box parts store and I can get it faster on Amazon than having the store order it. Even basic oil change shit it's cheaper to go to Walmart than it is any off those places.

Replaced the heater core in my Jeep a couple weeks ago. $150-200 at any of the parts stores and all but one had to order it online. Amazon was $50 and here the next day.
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Yep, the only problem with Amazon is it's the dumping ground for counterfeit parts, just like ebay. So be careful.
 
Advance used to put promos at the bottom of ebay parts search pages offering deals like 50 bucks off 200 dollars or more parts, pay online and pickup in store, bought expensive parts there a few times that way. Then the savings got smaller with lots of exclusions. I still check their prices and special savings now and then but the deals arent that great anymore.
 
Advance auto had a 40% off code 15 years ago and that's all I bought from.

I just buy from Amazon or rockauto these days, I rarely need parts right away.

Company I work with uses autozone and I'm very impressed with their customer service. I can call, say I need xzy part, and someone shows up in 20 minutes.
 
I avoid the one here. Too many times I've had to stand in line for 15 minutes to pay for an exhaust clamp because the sole person at the counter is trying to locate a shit ton of parts for some shade tree weekend hack's '88 Caravan.
 
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