Yup on all counts. I am so damn tired of going to store after store after store, and finding exactly the same thing at each, basically no options for anything of better quality. Sometimes I can find an earlier version of what I want from some dusty warehouse via eBay, and if so that's what I buy. I find myself buying used parts out of the junkyard that 5 years ago I said it's not worth getting used, but I seem to get the same life out of used original parts plucked from the yard as I get on new parts from the parts house any more. Especially things like starters alternators and sometimes even water pumps.
