most of those parts come from the same factory.
Who cares which label is stuck on the box?

I'm missing my local CarQuest now that Advance bought them up.
Funny thing is, a LOT of the parts I'm getting now are reboxed CQ parts.
At least some of the counter men have stayed on.

If an automatic starter gets reboxed as a manual starter, with the wrong part number, it is never going to disengage.
That's not really the fault of the kid who handed you the part.

 

Did anyone notice the date when this thread was started? I wonder how it was dredged up...

I work at O'Reilly's part time. Where I'm at we used to be Kragen Auto...I have over twenty-five years with the company. Kragen's had better quality parts over all, especially for the last 10 years of it's existence. I'd say the only good thing that came with the change over to O'Reilly's was that we now carry Wix filters and Moog chassis parts, though so many of our customers are bird people (cheap-cheap) they opt for the house brand Master Pro, which is crap. We also carry too many bottom tier brake lines, and only two good ones; Wagner and Performance Friction. I like Bendix and Raybestos more though...As an employee, the stores are VERY inefficiently run, a horrible computer system, no proper cash registers (everything is processed at the parts counter via pc, with receipts printing up on single, archaic, dot-matrix printer that always break down), so someone wanting to just get in and out with a quart of oil must wait behind some guy playing twenty questions about what's wrong with his turbo-diesel Mercedes. And worst of all...the paperwork! Oh, my God. Everything that shows up in the system as an overstock item is asked by the computer to be returned, eventually, and because the company doesn't give us any product tags for back-room items the back room is always a %#@*&^% mess, making it nearly impossible to track down many of the items we're asked to send back, or to sell to people. Of course all the software is very clunky and glitchy...the employees probably spend half the store's payroll just dealing with returns and other B.S. With Kragen Auto returns were a two minute exercise at the end of the night, with no new item returns to deal with. Well, that's my vent...

 

Yep.

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