NAPA vs. Autozone vs. O'Reilly... price and quality?

Lucky NAPA, they're no doubt STILL counting their blessings.

I don't typically use either. These days I forget about the middleman and just buy stuff on eBay. I just got a kit with water pump, timing belt, tensioner and pulley, and cam seals, for $150. I also ordered some headlight housings for $129/set. I'll probably have to pick up a turbo which will also cost around $190 to $250. These prices sure make living with a 04 Passat easier.

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Sometimes the part numbers and brand for a particular part is the same at Autozone or ORiellys as it is at NAPA but when that is the case the price is usually higher at NAPA.

There is an automotive electric repair shop less than one mile West from me. Alernator/starter motor repair, I take them to that shop.

me. Alernator/starter motor repair, I take them to that shop.

We had one down our street too. That was a good thing but they moved. Too b ad. My recommendation is that you use the bathroom before you take your sta rter or alternator to your shop - whatever you do, don't ask to use their b athroom! OTOH, using the bathroom in an automobile parts place seems to be a losing proposition most times.

m me. Alernator/starter motor repair, I take them to that shop.

bad. My recommendation is that you use the bathroom before you take your s tarter or alternator to your shop - whatever you do, don't ask to use their bathroom! OTOH, using the bathroom in an automobile parts place seems to b e a losing proposition most times.

Graves Auto Electric (shop) on Highway 80. As sure as I am sitting here on doggy's couch, I am 100 percent certain that Graves Auto Electric would let me use their rest room. It was in January, a cold morning and I had drank a LOT of coffee, about five or six years ago when I was at that NAPA store on West Highland Drive. Long before that, the Autozone store on Ellis Avenu e did let me use their rest room. You know how it T'is, When you got to GO, you GOT TO GO!

Asking to use the bathroom is a dead sure way to find out who your real friends are. This is why I always let people use my bathroom.

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rom me. Alernator/starter motor repair, I take them to that shop.

Too bad. My recommendation is that you use the bathroom before you take you r starter or alternator to your shop - whatever you do, don't ask to use th eir bathroom! OTOH, using the bathroom in an automobile parts place seems t o be a losing proposition most times.

on doggy's couch, I am 100 percent certain that Graves Auto Electric would let me use their rest room. It was in January, a cold morning and I had dr ank a LOT of coffee, about five or six years ago when I was at that NAPA st ore on West Highland Drive. Long before that, the Autozone store on Ellis A venue did let me use their rest room. You know how it T'is, When you got to GO, you GOT TO GO!

Test em out. Can I use your rest room. (No) Tell them Bye, and go to anothe r auto parts store.

Was reading through your comment and since i work at NAPA we don't let cost umers use restrooms because of incidents that have happened with costumers children messing with the toilet which causes it to overflow and then emplo yees have to clean up the mess, if it were up to us we would but its compan y policy to not let costumers use restrooms anymore, we "people" would neve r discriminate against anybody.

stumers use restrooms because of incidents that have happened with costumer s children messing with the toilet which causes it to overflow and then emp loyees have to clean up the mess, if it were up to us we would but its comp any policy to not let costumers use restrooms anymore, we "people" would ne ver discriminate against anybody.

That's a poor policy. For more information on this try, being refused a bat hroom when you got to go. My guess is you'll be able to figure out why it's a bad policy real quick.

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nice sales pitch, Orileys is seldom as cheep as the others, but what I like is they have it in stock. If I got to have it now thats where I check first. KB

replying to cuhulin, Mr Trumppet wrote: They are allowed to refuse you. Those bathrooms are private and why should they have you go use their bathroom and then piss all over the seat and then they have to clean it up? I work at an autozone and I refuse the use of a bathroom, one because our bathrooms are private and for employees only, and I don?t feel like cleaning up after some scumbag off the street.

I think to be fair, there shouldn't be any bathrooms at work. Everybody has to do their "business" at home. This will help build a world of super men and women.

If someone needs a public bathroom all they need to do is head over to the nearest Starbuck's. One has to give Starbuck's kudos for solving a long-standing problem in Manhattan and other large cities - the lack of public bathrooms.

Of course in many areas you might not want to go into one of those bathrooms without a hazmat suit after the indigenous "public" gets done with them.

Glad to see more people replying to Cuhulin's post after 13 years. Hope he is still alive since God knows webtv isn't. "For parts that are blown, step into the zone!"

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MSN kept the WebTV E-mail addresses active, as long as you don't allow the mailbox to go dormant (or perhaps even if you do). I know people who still use WebTV domains. I still use my original @MSN.com dial up account E-mail address, but I don't post to Usenet with it -- the dial account is long-gone.

Some auto parts stores have parts other auto parts stores do not have.I bought a set of RainX windshield wipers at O'Reilly's, they wouldn't on my 1983 Dodge van.O'Reilly's didn't have any other windshield wipers that would fit on my van.I went across the street to the Advance auto parts store.The set of TRICO windshield wipers I bought there fit on my van perfectly. cuhulin