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Post Your Preferred Online Parts Store

Discussion in 'Gen 3 Prius Care, Maintenance & Troubleshooting' started by SageBrush, Jul 7, 2013.

  1. SageBrush

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    If you are anything like me, you hate getting ripped off at the stealership, DIY if you can, and like to keep a maintenance parts inventory at home good for the next couple of years ;)

    The best approach I know of is to buy at one go a bunch of stuff from an online store. I have mostly used rockauto.com, but while toodling around the internet today I found group1autoparts.com | Genuine OEM Parts Direct

    I have never bought from them before, but prices appeared competitive, shipping seemed to stay at $12 as I added parts to my cart, and the interface had to be the best I have ever encountered.

    Below is a sample cart:


    If anyone has experience buying from this store, please post. I'd also like to hear recommendations for other stores.
     

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    I shop around, including eBay and Amazon to find decent prices on parts. A few Toyota dealers also offer stuff on eBay at a discount.
     
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    FredBeansParts.com they have been helping me with my car habit since 2006. They are a source for OEM and aftermarket parts. Their prices always meet or beat others.

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    Do they sell Toyota OEM parts ?
     
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    Yes, they own a lot of different new car dealerships.
     
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    They don't appear to handle any Toyota parts at all.
     
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    I thought the same LOL
    Digging around I ended up here: WELUVTOYOTAPARTS.COM

    The little I priced seemed OK, although more expensive than the store I found today. Shipping will be the clincher.
     
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    I think the same parent company owns several websites, one of them being Toyota Parts Cheap.
     
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    The dealers make deals with standard websites to host them.
     
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    I've ordered a lot of Toyota OEM parts from FredBeansParts. Give them a call and speak with Ryan. He takes care of me all the time

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    Today I bought parts for my '04 and '12 Prii from this shop. As you can see, a large fraction were wiper blades LOL
    All and all about a 20-30% discount compared to my dealer, no sales tax, and about a 4% surcharge for shipping. I think all the parts are OEM, so the part #s are Toyota.

    Part list with prices:

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    eBay for OEM NIB or Rockauto. Champion Toyota online sometimes.

    Rock is excellent as they'll take stuff back without blinking an eye. Bought some Moog stab links once and complained back to them how crappy they were. Couldn't even put the nut on the threads they were so china bad. They told me to toss them in the garbage and they credited me. Happy customer!
     
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