Autozone or Napa Echlin, Quality?

Yea, in the past when I shop at autozone, I pull the part out of the box, if it says made in somewhere besides USA, I tell em to keep it. Sometimes if you have them bring a hand full of the items to the counter you can find old stock that is made in the US. I did this on my tie rod ends for my Duster.. Picked thru the pile until I found all US units..
Unless I have exhaustified my options, I will simply hold out to buy US products. Problems is, freaking dealerships are selling outsourced parts too. I was at Ford, prepaid to order a part, got a position sensor, it came in "mexico". Paid extra to send my money to mexico.. I was really pissed off. Mother Fing dealership.. No integrity in this country it seems.. Of course like everyone says. All anyone does in these massive companies is buy the cheapest shi# they can to meet the minimum quality standard.
I just wish there was an auto parts chain that catered to people who care about buying US products. Also, I order online allot, so thats why I am looking at NAPA. Can get the parts delivered to my door. Hopefully getting more US parts from Napa, maybe.

1BadDodge71 said

i guess you were lucky8)Im mostly talking about starters ,alternators as Ive had nothing but crappy luck with parts like those from Autozone.I bought a alternator from Autozone for my GLH and it kept going out,took it back 3 times ,my electrical system was fine,battery was brand new until I decited to just get one from the dealership.This was 6 years ago and the alternator is still working .Had alot of problems too with their starters and water pumps.

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