I ordered a couple of suspension arms on Friday 29th Jan. and they turned up here in Kaitaia today! That's quicker than some NZ suppliers! Those guys sure have their act together.
nice_lady,
Feb 3, 2:32am
RockET Auto 👍
fordcoupe,
Feb 3, 2:34am
Sure are great to deal with.
marte,
Feb 3, 2:46am
Yep, 'Thumbs up'. I got some amazingly cheap cam & drive belts a while ago, one week. Cheap gaskets & bits too. And a variety at different prices.
franc123,
Feb 3, 3:04am
Yet it can take 4 days to shift small packages interisland by courier. Go figure.
shakespeare6,
Feb 3, 3:17am
Can't beat them, About 4-7 days delivery time. Well worth the wait- get some pretty good pricing even with the freight cost.
Just the other week I was quoted $130 for a heater hose for one of our vehicles. I got both radiator hoses and both heater hoses $158 including shipping! USA made gates brand at that. Another vehicle Spark plugs Repco $38 each iridium Rock Auto $6.50 each $49 including shipping for the set
2sheddies,
Feb 3, 3:21am
And here's muggins me shopping at Repco and Supercheap. I just paid $120 for an intake hose, probably could've got it at half that price. Sounds like I'd be better off using these guys. Cheers for the heads up.
Do they cater for all vehicles, even the older 80's Jap stuff?
sw20,
Feb 3, 3:28am
As long as there is an equivalent American sold model yes.
nice_lady,
Feb 3, 3:29am
Someone in good old NZ is making serious profits.
intrade,
Feb 3, 4:03am
if you blink you get shafted here i used to think they do this only to foreigners but they do it to all. You then get people who want a further discount when you already got shafted as a repairer to start with. its why i stay in bed and watch Netflix instead its cheaper for me then to work for free and having to pay on top for it.
franc123,
Feb 3, 4:16am
You have to be careful that what you want is the same as what was sold in the US, you may also need to know what the equivalent model was called there as often vehicles that are the same get given different names, or different brands even. Having access to a genuine parts catalogue and part numbers helps considerably as the genuine equivalent numbers are listed. The differences between left and right hook can also cause a bit of grief when ordering heater hoses, aircon and steering parts and the like, fortunately most stuff is pictured well. You will be shocked at the differences in price on most things.
franc123,
Feb 3, 4:24am
Then the line gets put out, "oh we cant buy it that cheap from our suppliers". Get new suppliers then you fools, something is seriously wrong when a private punter on the other side of the world can get better quality stuff shipped to them within days for a retail price thats a third of the price of what it is across the counter here. Sure RA are buying high volumes but that's not all of it. The costs of operating business here are ridiculously high and an outdated model is being used.
2sheddies,
Feb 3, 4:47am
Thanks mate, appreciate the tips, will bear them in mind. I'm probably a bit buggered as far as our two Aussie wagons go, but might be able to get bits for the other two. Hmmm. then again I don't think the Yanks ever had YH Hiaces. ?
franc123,
Feb 3, 5:52am
Well yeah. Not much good for Oz metal but you may still be able to score a good deal on oil filters. I get my Falcon filters from RockAuto, they sell the Motorcraft items there cheap.
muppet_slayer,
Feb 3, 6:06am
They do sales by part numbers too so if they don't have your vehicle listed they may still carry the part, like sparkplugs.
intrade,
Feb 3, 6:12am
i got the tps for my fiat from a Gm i did order one wrong where the mesurment went negative untill i found that the notch position has something to do with what direction it turns, and the iac was fine . found with parts numbers but can be quite time consumning. Nothing what so ever was for the opel astra holden on rockauto. i got that all when shipping was cheap from uk from vauxhall and ebay germany.
muppet_slayer,
Feb 3, 6:22am
Yeh cool, I just checked for my cars sparkplugs, iridium ones, ngk, NZ $6.99 each. NZ'ers are greedy as hell, the sparkplugs over here would be atleast $20-$30 each (my estimate, they could even cost more I haven't asked anyone over here for a price), bluddy rip off merchants.
tony9,
Feb 3, 6:27am
The economy DHL service that RockAuto uses by default to NZ travels on a 747 freighter arriving Auckland Sunday afternoon. To meet that service the order needs to be placed by around midday Fridays.
The faster (higher cost) service is a daily 737 freighter that gets stuff to the buyer here in about 2 days.
So far Covid does not seem to have stuffed the service up much, DHL has their own planes and crew.
If it was sold under any name in the USA, they probably have parts for it, but yeah, not much Japanese diesel stuff either. Some Mitsubishis were sold as Dodges.
tygertung,
Feb 4, 3:47am
Mitsubishi were certainly sold in the USA, but it seems just not on that website.
supernova2,
Feb 4, 5:45am
Of course its there. I got almost an entire cylinder head from Rock for a Chariot. When all else fails look up the OEM part number on one of the epc sites and bang that number into Rocks part number search.
utwo,
Feb 4, 7:10am
A few Mitsubishi models were rebadged as Chryslers in the USA, so you might be in luck.
intrade,
Feb 4, 7:27am
you got to look there is no punto fiat 96 but i can find parts if i hunt for 6 to 8h with parts numbers. of course i cant do that for people who want me to spend 8h looking and then pay me less then i have to pay after all the work. You have to do it your selfs or pay the big bux 5000% markup if you dont want to work you pay its that easy.
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