Parts! Bend over AND smile! short rant!
For my hobby cars, I have enough parts here to rebuild or replace just about anything. We’ve been working on my sons truck, I don’t think he’s spent more than $100 on the entire project, but we’ve replaced about $1000 worth of stuff. My problem is time, if something breaks down on our dailies, I need to fix them right away, so I buy from the local O’Reillys. I get a discount there, and 3 of the employees are local Mopar friends. I don’t mind if it costs more, and I’ve never been on Amazon before, and Rock Auto only once, and of course I got the wrong part. That set the project back almost a week. I don’t have credit cards, and only use my debit card for emergencies, but that’s just the way I roll, because I’m old I guess.