Anyone know of a local (Cary/Raleigh/RTP) source for struts?

Keith Quistorff · **Posted:** Fri Aug 08, 2008 9:50 am

A friend's daughter had a minor fender bender yesterday and tweaked a front strut on her Honda CR-V. Leith Honda has the struts in stock, but the OEM price is insane (over $350/pair). Pep Boys offers Monroes for a much lower price, but not in stock, can't get them until early next week. Hoping to find a local aftermarket source with them in stock or able to get them by tomorrow (Saturday).

Any suggestions?

BretLuter · **Posted:** Fri Aug 08, 2008 9:54 am

Autozone, Advance, Carquest, Napa?

Carquest has their distribution center on Millbrook Rd, so if they have them there, you can get them quick- either they will deliver to your local store or you can do a "will call" and pick them up at the warehouse counter.

Let your fingers do the walking!!!

Keith Quistorff · **Posted:** Fri Aug 08, 2008 10:56 am

Thanks for the suggestions, Bret. I had tried all of those except Advance with no luck. Just called the Advance near my house, and they had the best price and will have them for me tomorrow morning. SWEET!

Dustin Fredrickson · **Posted:** Fri Aug 08, 2008 11:09 am

If autopartswarehouse.com has the part you want, your local CarQuest can typically get it same day if you place your order before early afternoon. For that matter, Adam Ligon's BFI and Mark Cooper also have access to the same disttribution network, but CarQuest owns that company and is closer to my house, so I usually go through them. FWIW, many of the parts are OEM manufacturer parts. I forget the name of that parts distribution network, but typically just ask CarQuest to look it up in their "other warehouse system for that other company they own".

Wes Eargle · **Joined:** Mon Oct 27, 2003 9:47 am **Posts:** 3683

Dustin is thinking about Worldpac.

Keith Quistorff · **Posted:** Fri Aug 08, 2008 1:30 pm

Dustin Fredrickson wrote:

If autopartswarehouse.com has the part you want, your local CarQuest can typically get it same day if you place your order before early afternoon. For that matter, Adam Ligon's BFI and Mark Cooper also have access to the same disttribution network, but CarQuest owns that company and is closer to my house, so I usually go through them. FWIW, many of the parts are OEM manufacturer parts. I forget the name of that parts distribution network, but typically just ask CarQuest to look it up in their "other warehouse system for that other company they own".

I had the same thought and called CarQuest first thing this morning - they looked it up under both CarQuest and Worldpac and came back that nothing was available from any of their sources, same thing AutoZone told me. NAPA and Pep Boys were able to get Monroes, but not until next week. I was very surprised by Advance not only being able to get them quickly, but at the best price - I've never had much luck with Advance before now.

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Anyone know of a local (Cary/Raleigh/RTP) source for struts?

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