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Originally Posted by Sapphireho
The threads like this remind me of the biggest peeve of a friend of mine that owns a tire shop. People come in with a performance car that has $700 a piece tires on it and they expect to replace them with $50 tires.
Do your homework before buying a car.
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Learn to read before posting in a thread.
No one is saying they want to put crappy $50 parts on a car. If you learned to read, you'd see we are only talking about OEM parts and how to obtain them. However, OEM is not available except in the dealership, which marks up prices. No, you missed the entire point. Genuine "BMW", Genuine "Porsche", Geuine "Audi" parts are also priced at full markup. The difference, however, as I've stated repeatedly, is that with Euro cars, you have the option of buying the OE part with the original brand that has nothing to do with thew car brand. With Japanese cars, you can either buy Genuine "Toyota" or some 3rd party junk from Autozone/RockAuto. There is no middle ground. ie: You can not buy a Mitsubishi alternator or Makishinto brake pads. If you think Toyota is selling Mitsubishi alternators with their "Toyota" logo on it at cost, you are very clueless.
Do you get it now?