Who knew? Amazon "NewParts" is Rockauto?

[Wylie6G72]

Interesting find today while tracking an Amazon package. I ordered a fuel tank, pump, sender, and a couple of other miscellaneous things, and it turns out to be a UPS shipment that tracks back to RockAuto,. Some of you guys probably knew that, but I had no idea. Saved a few bucks ordering it all through Amazon.

 

[drtyler]

more likely that newparts and rockauto are drop shipping from the same wholesaler

 

[Urshurak776]

more likely that newparts and rockauto are drop shipping from the same wholesaler

This.....

 

[nascarnation]

Amazon has really ramped up their auto parts selection the last couple years.
I do my lookup on Rockauto because I like their catalog style.
Then compare prices with Amazon and eBay.
Amazon often is low (I have Prime, fwiw).
It appears to me that the local stores (O'Reilly, Autozone, etc) have given up competing on price at least to the consumer and just service the customer who needs a part immediately. A common part (Camry disc brake rear caliper) was 60% higher.
As a retired guy I can usually wait to get stuff for a better price.

 

[eljefino]

Don't overlook Walmart and Home Depot for drop shipped auto parts, either. Do a half baked search of your part number and see what comes up.

 

[NOTEVIL81]

Well in California there's no such thing as RockAuto shipping parts. Parts are shipped by Parts Authority , World pack and Factory Motor Parts. Parts authority the largest shipments. RockAuto does do most of their returns in house.

 

[Ronsant]

Amazon has really ramped up their auto parts selection the last couple years.
I do my lookup on Rockauto because I like their catalog style.
Then compare prices with Amazon and eBay.
Amazon often is low (I have Prime, fwiw).
It appears to me that the local stores (O'Reilly, Autozone, etc) have given up competing on price at least to the consumer and just service the customer who needs a part immediately. A common part (Camry disc brake rear caliper) was 60% higher.
As a retired guy I can usually wait to get stuff for a better price.

I wonder if the brick and mortar parts stores have decided to live on the professional shops who need parts deliveries daily. Even with the discounts the shops get, it’s steady business.
If a retail customer pays retail, it’s frosting on the cake. I want to support my local stores but they are more than a little higher than internet sources. Way more in some examples.

 

[97prizm]

Amazon has really ramped up their auto parts selection the last couple years.
I do my lookup on Rockauto because I like their catalog style.
Then compare prices with Amazon and eBay.
Amazon often is low (I have Prime, fwiw).
It appears to me that the local stores (O'Reilly, Autozone, etc) have given up competing on price at least to the consumer and just service the customer who needs a part immediately. A common part (Camry disc brake rear caliper) was 60% higher.
As a retired guy I can usually wait to get stuff for a better price.

What's really frustrating is that Advance auto parts had a 20% off coupon last year. I went in to the store and was told that they couldn't offer that price and that I HAD TO order online for the discount. Whats the difference between 20% off in store or online? So I ordered online and picked up in store.

 

[D1dad]

Don't overlook Walmart and Home Depot for drop shipped auto parts, either. Do a half baked search of your part number and see what comes up.

Yep. I needed raybestos rotors, specialty, not the element 3 junk. I ended up getting both rotors from Walmart for the price of 1 from rock auto. Plus no shipping charge.

 

[Danno]

I wonder if the brick and mortar parts stores have decided to live on the professional shops who need parts deliveries daily. Even with the discounts the shops get, it’s steady business.
If a retail customer pays retail, it’s frosting on the cake. I want to support my local stores but they are more than a little higher than internet sources. Way more in some examples.

It's getting ridiculous in Canada. New car in the fleet, 2025 Equinox.
PF64 filter at dealer $19.
From Rock auto, shipped, in CDN $, 6.50 a filter.
Amazon is more than dealer price.

 

[robertcope]

It's getting ridiculous in Canada. New car in the fleet, 2025 Equinox.
PF64 filter at dealer $19.
From Rock auto, shipped, in CDN $, 6.50 a filter.
Amazon is more than dealer price.

Strange. I can get the PF64 from Amazon for $7.82 same day delivery. Rockauto wants $4.17 for it but $7.99 to ship it.

I just noticed you said Canada, though. Oops.

 

[D1dad]

I just got Carquest platinum rear pads from the rock auto close out section and a pair of guide pins, shipped and out the door for $31. I usually use ebc for all thing brakes, but I’m putting together a future brake job for my wife’s 24 Altima and seeing how cheap I can go and still use good/decent parts. For front and back raybestos specialty/carbon rotors and Carquest platinum pads, front and rear I’m less than $200. She drives like she’s got a police officer behind her at all times so ebc would be a waste lol.

 

[repairman54]

UPR63R filters are $8 on RA, $18 on amazon with Prime. Cheaper on RA to order several at a time with one time shipping for several. Your going to be using them unless your getting rid of the vehicle. Just got 4 for my fleet.

 

[Dave9]

What's really frustrating is that Advance auto parts had a 20% off coupon last year. I went in to the store and was told that they couldn't offer that price and that I HAD TO order online for the discount. Whats the difference between 20% off in store or online? So I ordered online and picked up in store.

The difference is probably that they have no way to enter an internet-only coupon code into the register to have it take off 20%.

Slightly related, the last time I bought a battery from walmart, their website added on the core charge as a "tax", then when I took the old battery to the local walmart for the core charge refund, their register couldn't process it because it couldn't refund a tax amount without a return of the whole product for full cash refund.

I then wanted them to do the full cash refund, then ring it up again as another purchase so I just kept the same new battery I had already installed, which would then have the core charge put on the bill correctly so they could refund that, but this was too much for the cashier to mentally process so I had to call their customer service dept. instead.

 

[Dave9]

Note that Newparts has their own website and in some cases, the parts are cheaper there except shipping is yet to be added on. For example I randomly picked a model of brake pads.

$31, ships from/sold-by Newparts
https://www.amazon.com/Bosch-BE667-Blue-Disc-Brake/dp/B00MY4O2MM

$18 on their site + $11 shipping (to my location at least), not sure how much can be combined in an order to lower per part shipping cost.

https://newparts.com/product/bosch/BE667

 

[bdcardinal]

It's getting ridiculous in Canada. New car in the fleet, 2025 Equinox.
PF64 filter at dealer $19.
From Rock auto, shipped, in CDN $, 6.50 a filter.
Amazon is more than dealer price.

For shops it is easier to just deal with a dealer parts department. They get their parts same day, know they are genuine, and we will take back reasonable returns.

FWIW we still do a fairly decent wholesale business, but selling parts to our own shop is where the money is at. No discounting, no returns, and with warranty, we usually get to bill out at over list price.

 

[Danno]

For shops it is easier to just deal with a dealer parts department. They get their parts same day, know they are genuine, and we will take back reasonable returns.

FWIW we still do a fairly decent wholesale business, but selling parts to our own shop is where the money is at. No discounting, no returns, and with warranty, we usually get to bill out at over list price.

Oh, I live that every day working at a Ram dealership. Parts prices for reconditioning used cars is usually more than retail. Not a fan of our parts dept. I tend to shop Rockauto for our needs quite often. Ordered 2 Mopar tail lights today from RA. Saved $1000 vs our parts dept. Delivered by Friday.

 

[D1dad]

Exactly why I won’t go to a dealer parts counter unless I absolutely need it now. I order oem parts from a Nissan dealer for around 50% less than if I walked into that same dealer and bought it, ridiculous! They quoted me $376 for a wheel bearing I ordered from their parts site for $212.

 

[D1dad]

I traced advance autos platinum brake pads to being the exact same pad as bendix premium. Or at least they are for Nissan. Go to advance and they’re $60 after a coupon. Go to Amazon and buy bendix and they’re $29.

 

[SC Maintenance]

What's really frustrating is that Advance auto parts had a 20% off coupon last year. I went in to the store and was told that they couldn't offer that price and that I HAD TO order online for the discount. Whats the difference between 20% off in store or online? So I ordered online and picked up in store.

There trying to get you used to ordering online, so they can eventually do away with their stores.

I am convinced the auto parts stores are mostly some sort of real estate venture. They have 3 different parts stores all on the busiest corner in the area. That real estate can't be cheap.