Auto Part Store Questions

For you folks that don't like to give the year, make, model & engine to the parts person. You've said it is so much easier to just look up the part first and go in with a part number. Where, exactly, are you finding that part number? Every site I go to makes me put in year, make, model & engine to start with...

Now, I do have a pet peeve for these new computer "look ups". As an example, I am now looking for 60" pos & neg battery cables for my Duster. All of the web sites want to give me a 78" pos. and 15" neg. I cannot figure out a way to just ask for "battery cables" and browse... Anyone else have this problem?
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