Southern California - shop(s) that can re-build my front end

Most all quality shops ABSOLUTELY HATE to use customer supplied parts. They do not know the quality of parts you have. So if you got the wrong parts shipped to you or the shop can see the parts are defective, they can not just call thier parts supplier and have another replacement part delivered within a few hours.

The shop has some warranty implied with a normal job and if YOUR supplied parts fail it's on them. So a shop will write the invoice with all kind of clauses that there is no warranty on customer supplied parts. With all the wacky stuff the B.A.R. (Bureau of Automotive Repair) does nowadays, there's still a chance a shop could get screwed. Nowdays there's still a chance to get nailed from the B.A.R.

In the end, almost all shops will increase the labor billed to the customer to cover the lost profit and chances using customer parts. You just will not noticed it as a customer.

If you aren't going to do the work on something with common parts store parts, just let the shop get the parts. A front end job or brake job is meat and potatoes work (undercar work). Now for something that take wierd parts that would come from Year One or Classic Industries, etc most shops would rather the customer deal with the parts.