u/Frequent_Parsnip_791

Somebody told me they took this while at work, that this is some guys installing gloFiber across the street, about a year or so ago. The dude on the cable looks like some stock image for somebody working on a skyscraper or something. AI? Photoshop? I donno. Seems too ridiculous to be real.

Ordered on Sunday, arrived Tuesday. Box in tact and stuffed tight with stuffing - heavy parts' boxes undamaged, same for the other parts. No magnet... still pleased overall.

I really, really like the Mexican rounds, but I have to say my favorite are the French Hercules coins. I have one of each type. The older 3 are silver but the Euro coin is not, but I had to get one of those too, of course :)

But it turned out I'm just a dummy (not really, this can happen to anyone....)

I ordered a rear brake hose for my truck, went to put it on and the right side brake line would not thread in... I tried fitting it into the old one (In case it got messed up removing it somehow) and it went right in. Then I noticed that the hole in the hose end was clearly larger then the end on the line... I noticed that there are different hoses for 4x4 vs 2wd... So I started preparing for the grievance, I figured I'd take a picture of the old hose next to the new one - and like magic, both holes in the end of the hoses are the same. What. Turns out the right and left side are two different sizes (same tool size, different fitting size) and I was trying to install it upside down. To my defense, the bend in the new hose would make one think that I was installing it the right way, and I'd never think there would be two different sizes... I've been fixing cars for a living for 20 years too , and have installed many rear brake hoses on old RWD Fords... I've owned 6 vehicles that fit that category too FFS. Oh well, at least I figured it out before making an ass of myself!

(the pic is just show-and-tell for my second trip of the day )

First time I went to this new scrap yard I was pleased to see I got significantly more for the two brake rotors and fireplace log holder than my other iron ( I had a little of everything so It all got weighed inside)... The next time I went I had a lot more of that kind of stuff, including bigger rotors, thick sway bars, solid axle shafts with the studs removed, steering knuckles stripped bare, some crazy heavy large pipe flange bases, bare V8 cylinder heads. This was just a load of iron this time because I couldn't fit everything in one trip - I mentioned this when I got there, showed them I had all the good stuff together ready to easily pull out, but they had me just dump it all in the shred pile. I still got 120 bucks for everything but I would have kept some of that if I had known... Some of it was usable stuff for a car project that I was 'probably' never going to do, a car not popular enough to bother trying to sell the parts to someone else... Was the guy just in a better mood the first time? They weren't busy. Same guy working, I was in the same truck, maybe a month between trips.

When I showed back up an hour later with $270 worth of non-ferrous they looked kinda surprised/concerned to see me again at first, like they thought I came back to complain lol... this pic was most of the second trip (not the storm doors)

Originally I was just going to post the one pic and come up with something witty about a free disposable creeper, but decided to up it to my overall thoughts/experience with them. As you can see, I've ordered many times from them (the side of the fridge is about 1/3 covered too) and have never regretted it. They definitely can be a bit sparse on the packing material and maybe every 5th order doesn't get a magnet, but I've ordered just about every type of part they offer with good results. Shipping prices are fair, they usually arrive in good time, my last order got to me in two literal days using the cheapest shipping (ordered Monday morning, got it Wednesday afternoon). The one time FeEx dropped my order at my neighbor's house and his dogs ate most of it, they sent replacements for everything I felt wasn't salvageable (I provided photos of the damage). They honored the manufacturer's lifetime warranty on a window regulator w/motor twice over a period of 5 years, I only had to pay shipping. The only time I felt like I got a bunk part was a new Bosh starter motor on super closeout for $20... The first one I bought was going strong for almost a year strong, and I have two vehicles that use the same starter, so I bought two more. The first one went bad a few months later, the second one didn't last two months, and the 3rd was somewhere in between. I guess that's why both the original supplier and then RockAuto wanted to get rid of them so badly... I do try to avoid the absolute cheapest option and brands I've never heard of though. The price on even their regular inventory has always been the best to be found, even considering shipping, except a few times it was close enough that I opted to get the occasional gasket sooner from a local store.

I figure just like with reviews for most things in life, you find more people putting in the effort to complain than people singing praises, so if you're on the fence about it, don't hesitate to give them a try...!