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That's right I knew it was diehard from earlier in this thread but had forgotten. I've pretty much started passing on carquest since they became part of advance.
The store I use, I have an account with them and opened it before they switched over to AA, but I can have them get any part I want, if it has freight charges I get it myself, but they can get a lot of parts in their system that don't have freight charges and are not an AA part. But yeah, some of the parts they have now are of poor quality. I have to remind them of the brand I want, otherwise I get the "store" brand. This store is not a corporate store, so that helps a ton, too.
I do not use carquest on a professional level any more. All of the Carquests in the city where the shop is at are long gone as in 20 years or so. Nearish the farm & home there is a carquest as the only part store in town. That location has been long known for it's ridiculously high pricing, but I'd use them for farm stuff when I couldn't wait. Since becoming part of Advance it's just gotten terrible. The old staff is gone, and what's in stock isn't worth buying at their pricing anyway. So it's only in a real situation that I'll go in there anymore, which is to bad really.
our autozone in the afternoons usually on weekdays has a texan guy who is clearly into harleys as he only wears harley attire but hes aged like fine wine and hes basically the only reason to go there. doesnt know everything but a auto store person doesnt need to know everything they just need ot be intelligent and understand basic frameworks of automotive systems and general parts and how things vary across makes etc etc. Really its not really a lot needed to be decent at a store, then experience just adds on top. Well he brings a **** load of the experience, knows how to use their damn computers that suck, and doesnt waste your time and levels with ya and knows the quirks of this and that. And hes just good people. He usuaully ends up helping everyone regardless of his coworkers being there or not because they usually end up needing him lol
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I was unaware of that, however there is a wholesale parts vendor in the area that has an online A/C Delco catalog which is integrated with the shop software, so it's unlikely I'd use the standalone catalog at work, but I've sent myself the link, for when I wanna lookup parts at home which is more often than I'd like to admit.... Thanks.
I spent over an hour on it and figured out why 2005 buick lesabre and park avenue have "different" brakes but they all interchange on damn near anything. GM never issues any thing to explain and the numbers were just rolled into interchange despite "being only for 2005" because GM and their part numbers sometimes lol. Basically, they tuned the brakes to have less radial force variations by shape and thickness of rotor, trimmed some excess cast iron off some calipers and put a dual bleeder instead of left/right so it was one or other, and then changed pad designs.
I own a commercial chassis Cadillac. A 1977. In general most Fleetwood parts work on it. The engine is a standard 425 Cadillac engine and the trans a TH400, but chassis, stuff like brakes, Ft end ya that can be a lot of fun. The best thing is most aftermarket catalogs don't list the commercial chassis at all.
Buick commercial chassis prob had the same brakes i would think? But I meant the 2000s commercial chassis. Hearses are the one appilications i know of but J55 CC brakes and stuff are their own thing for a few years there and even have larger bolt pattern
I really don't know, but one would think the brakes would be the same. It's logical anyway. Cadillac commercial chassis aren't very common and Buick even rarer, I think there was a Pontiac CC at one time too. I think Cadillac is the only one left, if even they still have a dedicated CC. The main buyers of the CC were hearse and flower car manufacturing companies. You'd be surprised at least in the 70's there were a few builders, but each builder was extremely low production, often each unit was built to the specs of the funeral home purchasing it. So to make matters worse, if for example a hearse builder could not get a CC because Cadillac only made 2,000 of them one year, and they'd all been sold, they'd buy a few Fleetwoods, do some chassis modification to beef it up and do their build on that. So sometimes with the old ones anyway it could be hard to tell what the chassis it was really built on. And to further complicate things sometimes builders would buy enough to build on for a few years, they'd do it because they'd pay the prices for that years sales tag yet get to build on them and sell them for the next several years. This would cause shortages for other manufactures, and another complication. A hearse with a built and registered date might be a year or more after the production date. RV's have similar issues. Fun trying to sort that all out on a 40 year old car...
Brackets are spaced different, knuckles are different and the hole with threads is in different spot. larger diameter rotor. thicker, larger spread on the lugs. the caliper bracket had to be different because the center hat part was larger and the caliper i believe is the same and the pads are different. with how beeefed it was im wondering if the Engineering team didnt make it more capable for potential uses and then it ends up only basically hearses use the things. im sure they were overpriced as that is... the time GM In my opinion really started to shed anything of value to me at least. so assinine overpriced caddys that have no cheaper option like a buick or chevrolet (B body commercial chassis up to whenever they were done)
is 78 when the cadillac bodys downsized?
