Dealer vs Napa Parts Price

Traditional Farmer · Nov 21, 2019

Needed 3 glow plugs for my new to me Cub Cadet 7000 with a 3 cylinder Mitsubishi motor checked with CC dealers on line run about $50 each,found the NGK number for them, seems NGK is the only company that makes them so CC ones have to be NGK.Called local NAPA store $7.25 each.Bought 3 installed them and worked perfect.

JF in MI · Nov 21, 2019

I call that a major coup. I love hearing stories like this.

RLA · Nov 21, 2019

Do Not blame the dealer, Blame the Company.

RobCons · Nov 21, 2019

Similar experience years ago with a chevy dually. Needed the marker lights for rear fenders so went to dealer. $40 each. NAPA had them for a couple dollars each.

Mutt and Jeff · Nov 21, 2019

Don't let NAPA know they will adjust the price accordingly

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Welding man · Nov 21, 2019

Local NAPA dealers can charge about what they want I think. All of our NAPA stores in a 100 mile Radius have been bought out by a couple of brothers. They have put in their own Wearhouse, runs their own trucks from store to store and the the prices on everything has gone through the roof. The kids they have hired in the stores don't know the difference between a radiator cap and a hubcap. I now try to buy anywhere but NAPA.

JK-NY · Nov 21, 2019

It definitely pays to check out more than one place when ordering parts. I have always been intrigued by John Deere, the oil filter for my 2 diesel tractors is only 6 or7 dollars last I bought one, I always figured they keep them reasonable so you would buy the oil there too and be more inclined to buy other parts there too. Kind of like the grocery stores making milk prices fairly low to bring people in.

Russ from MN · Nov 21, 2019

Yes, and the cheap milk and eggs are way at the back corner so you have to walk by everything else to get them! I too use JD filters, but Delvac oil.

Dean · Nov 21, 2019

I replaced the glow plugs in my B1750 Kubota this summer.

Glow plugs were around $35 each from Kubota.

I bought a set of 3 online for about $25, delivered.

So far, so good.

Dean

Russ from MN · Nov 21, 2019

Our local Napa was going to charge me $16 for a fuel filter, when I complained, a different salesperson said, "put it on xyz account", brought it down to about $10. They prey on the vulnerable!

Sodak farmer · Nov 21, 2019

Not Napa but same story. Hitch broke on grain cart. Weigh bar hitch from mfg dealer 400. From grain cart dealer 900. Same part.

Traditional Farmer · Nov 21, 2019

Advance Auto had them listed for less than $6 each but would have taken 5 days with a stock order to get them or could have paid extra to get them in quicker.We have
NAPA,Federated,Autozone and Advance Auto stores within 3 miles of each other so they have to be pretty competitive on prices.

grizz02 · Nov 21, 2019

is there a differance

Mike M · Nov 21, 2019

Glad you shopped around. But I have also ran into items the dealers had for less money than NAPA too.
The one that sticks in my mind was a GM dome light switch. When I worked at the dealer 11 years ago GM had a lower price on them then the auto parts stores.

Traditional Farmer · Nov 21, 2019

The glow plug that fit the CC also fits some Kubotas.

BarnyardEngineering · Nov 21, 2019

You think maybe they charge these prices so you WILL go elsewhere for these obsolete antique parts, and stop hassling the dealers?

Go to a car dealer and try to get parts for something more than 10 years old. Unless what you need fits something <10 years old too, you're out of luck.

Yet, we go to farm equipment dealers and expect them to have parts in stock for 60 year old equipment... and expect the parts to cost the same as they did 50 years ago?

tim s · Nov 21, 2019

Yes the NAPA dealer can and will charge what they want...I have experienced that here,,,I will go without before I will walk into a NAPA... Around here ORielys is the go to store,, they have good counter people, fair pricing and a much larger source of parts.

Billy Shafer · Nov 21, 2019

My son needed brake pads for his car. Local NAPA dealer that went from Parts Plus to NAPA. Wanted 51.95. We were in the next town over shopping. Checked in at ORielys 32.55 for the same pads. I have noticed the local store has lost business since becoming NAPA

Sprint 6 · Nov 21, 2019

My main shop supplier is the local NAPA. O'Reilly's just opened up first of October. Their rep has been trying to get me to buy, but nothing at O'Reilly's is even in the ball park price wise.

Traditional Farmer · Nov 21, 2019

You consider parts for a 2003 machine to be obsolete antique parts? And those glow plugs were put in much newer machines.I'd bet the dealer gets the parts from the same supplier that every other parts place does.I see NAPA,Federated,etc delivery trucks going into automobile and farm equipment dealers all the time so its not a matter of parts like these sitting on the dealers shelf.

Jeff NWOH · Nov 21, 2019

I have a few NAPA stores within 15 miles of me. I rarely shop there unless its something I have to have now.

Case in point... Working on a Bobcat 763. Needed a hydraulic filter and a belt for cooling fan. Bobcat dealer is a 45 min drive, so I went to napa.

Hydraulic filter lists for $93. My price would have been 60 something, but he ran it under someones account and I got for $47. I just looked, and I could get a genuine bobcat one shipped to my door for $30.

1/2" x 31" v belt cost me $25. Not sure what its made of, but wow...

I'm glad they saved you some money. Every once in a while I'm pleasantly surprised there, but not often.

paul · Nov 21, 2019

Napa used to be cheap and good here. They are ok now. They got a little bit more new school and if the computer doesn?t show them the part they are much more lost than they were a couple decades ago, don?t know what is what like they used to.

There is an Advanced Auro store here used to be affiliated with something else, they have a machine shop and are the go to place to get stuff like that, very knowledgeable old time staff that knows what you are trying to find and how to find it.

Paul

504 · Nov 21, 2019

I know the local Napa dealer. WE were talking about pricing at supper one night. His wife went to work at the Napa store to see how it ran before they bought it. He ran, and still does run a busy garage, she runs the store. When she got in the computers, she found her husband was paying more for parts than someone walking in off the street. She took care of that quickly. I hardly ever buy from Napa because they are a 40 miles round trip for me,Orileys is 15 blocks from work.

Vicinalvictor · Nov 21, 2019

I called my local NAPA store today inquired about a battery for a 5 series John Deere tractor. Guy said I would have to bring the old battery in to match it up with what they have in stock. I asked what the price might be on a 650 cca battery, he said 100-140 dollars. My local John Deere dealership has what I need in stock for 120 dollars without the hassle....

bison · Nov 21, 2019

I bought last year 6 aftermarket Stanadine. pencil injectors for my newly rebuild waukesha 310 for +/- $ 60 a piece , they where china made. 1 of them leaked from the body right out of the box. I decided to get one from the dealer, they assured me they where US made. Upon receiving the new injector at $204 incl freight :shock: I noticed it said MADE in China on the sealed bag it was in.
It was identical to the six I had bought previously but at 3 1/2 time the price.
Dealer said they are genuine Stanadine and did not even offer an apology.

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