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Online Security

Autopartstomorrow.com is one of the most secure auto parts sites you will come across. We understand that buying auto parts over the web is a fairly new process, and many people are making their first ever purchase on our site. Who can blame them for looking? With the price of some of the electronic components in today's cars, if a wholesale option like us were not available, that car might just be towed to the junk yard instead of being repaired.

Security is one of the reasons we do not take phone orders. While we trust everyone who works here implicitly, there is always a greater risk taking your card number over the phone than there is from our encrypted web site. We don't even see your card information. That is shared between your bank and ours, and when they agree everything is OK with the transaction, we just click the button to complete the sale.

There are a few drawbacks to high security however. One of these is sometimes experienced by our customers at checkout. Our card processing system wants to make 100% sure that the person placing the order is the actual person who owns the credit card. To do so we require that the BILL-TO address be the EXACT address stated in the credit card companies records. If you transpose numbers, or use incorrect abbreviations, etc. the card will be returned as rejected and your order will not process. In order to overcome this, some find it helpful to look at their most recent statement, and type the address directly from the front.

Most customers appreciate this level of protection. If you happen to be the one who is having an issue though it will probably be frustrating. If the information above doesn't help, please feel free to call and we will go through several steps to try to help you out. Security is good... It helps build trust. Trust builds loyalty, and loyalty will help us continue to grow and provide the superior level of care you have come to expect. We thank you for your business.

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Autopartstomorrow EBay

Many of our loyal customers have come to us via EBay. Our store there contains a large portion of our inventory, and EBay is a great process by which customers can use their PayPal accounts to buy items from us. It may not be the ideal way to continue to buy auto parts from us though because of some of the limitations they have.

On EBay, parts are listed as individual auctions and must be bought one at a time. If you go directly to our site, Autopartstomorrow.com you are able to buy many parts at the same time by moving them into your shopping cart and then buying them all at one time. Another issue we feel more comfortable with direct is our catalog. EBay has a great tool to narrow down which year and make a part fits on, but if that part has multiple items for the same year (say three alternators of different amperages) they don't always make that distinction.

I guess the main thing we are saying here is that you have choices in how you buy from Autopartstomorrow. Whether it is through EBay or directly to the web site itself, we will do everything we can to make sure you are completely satisfied!

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Improved Performance!

Sometimes you put off the repairs on your car for so long that you don't realize how badly it is performing. When you finally get around to it, please check out Autopartstomorrow for all of your tune-up parts needs.

We are an authorized AC Delco and Motorcraft warehouse distributor. What that means is we buy directly from the manufacturers, GM and Ford, and then resell the auto parts at wholesale pricing directly from the warehouse. Since we don't have retail stores, or a huge advertising budget, our prices are ALWAYS cheaper on the same exact brand new Original Equipment auto parts.

So go ahead and tune-up that car. You will be surprised how much better it runs!!

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It is HOT Outside...

Extreme heat is really good for selling auto parts. Batteries go bad, water pumps need to be replaced, radiators burst, and we sell tons of A/C compressors, etc.. It can still be a little overwhelming. We will do everything we can to get you the parts you need at the lowest possible price so you can get back on the road. Hopefully the road to something a little more enjoyable.



Try to find a place this weekend to cool off and enjoy the outdoors. Sometimes it can be hard to do both of those at the same time, but it can be done.



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The Beauty of Channel Conflict

“Channel Conflict” is a term not well understood outside of the distribution world, but the struggle within is having far reaching impacts on all of us. Basically it is the fight between “partners” in a given distribution channel over who gets to sell to whom. Those were the good old days when things were simple…Nice neat silos with very few conflicts.

Into this fairly smooth model, around 1997 was introduced Google. Very few people had the vision to project the impact our current search engine driven world would create. In fact, even now many are trying to cling to the way things “used to be”. If there are two things we Americans are good at they are embracing change and fighting change. In the auto parts world we emulate both. There were a few imaginative companies who built a model around the internet as early as the AOL and Yahoo days.

This new E-economy business model hangs on a vast distribution network tied together through internet connections linking all of the old players in new and different agreements. Most of the players don’t want to admit to the fact that they are supplying this behemoth, but they are unable to turn down the added volume it produces. It really is a very impressive system where three and four step processes are done in a virtual marketplace and HTML agreements disperse profit percentages automatically based on coded algorithms. It all works great most of the time. There are still some opportunities for fine tuning the process where links are removed from the supply chain and the savings passed along to the end user.

If you asked your average mechanic if he would allow his customer to buy their own parts over the internet and install them, he would probably say no. If you did the same at a dealership you would be laughed out of the place. I suggest that we are living in a changed world and our cozy distribution silos that we built for the past need to be torn down. Increasingly the three, four and five step process of getting parts from the manufacturer to installed on a customers car are too time consuming and costly. How many housewives take that $1500 A/C job quote home and do a price comparison on Google. Ask the car dealers about how well they can protect margin on automotive sales now that the underlying cost information is laid bare for everyone to see on the internet. Information empowers people to be more intelligent in their decisions. I believe those distribution partners and repair facilities that are willing to support this new type of customer will be the ones able to thrive in this new economy. From what I can tell, the trend is towards an increase of 10%-30% on labor charges. That way both parties to the transaction feel they have benefited.

In the distribution world we constantly bicker amongst our partners about who has the right to sell to whom. The dealership doesn’t want the distributor to sell to his wholesale customer. The retail store doesn’t want OE in his garage customers shop unless it was channeled through their store. The warehouse distributor doesn’t want his manufacturer going direct to their national fleet accounts. In the real world out there all of our customers are looking past us to the internet and who can get them what they want the quickest and at the lowest price. This new market is not going to go away. The customer now has the part they need in their hand… who wants to get paid to put it on their car?

The bottom line is this; the customer today is wiser and has more options. Autopartstomorrow is offering a vast selection of auto parts at a very compelling price. If today's e-consumer wants to buy their car repair parts this way, the market will begin to accommodate their request. Good for everyone, except those who are unwilling to change.

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How Long Should My Car Last?

I can remember when anyone who had 100,000 miles on their vehicle could brag about the longevity they were able to obtain by taking care of their car. A few years back many of the manufacturers began touting first tune-up at 100,000 miles! These days cars are engineered so well that many are able to reach this milestone even with less than diligent owners. What most of us need to know is that by following some pretty simple guidelines, outlined in the owners manual, we can expect to almost double the life expectancy of our cars. Now we just need to work on the "Need vs. Want" aspect and reset that new car itch for a longer shelf life.

Read this article from MSN Auto for more information.

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Why Do I Need a Return Request?

For those of you not in the auto parts business this is an entirely legitimate question. Those of us that deal with returns of auto parts each day just drop our head and quietly mutter "They just don't understand...". Unlike many other industries, there are many different scenarios as to why someone might need to return a part, and several different return types that need to considered when a box with a part in it (and no paperwork or explanation) shows up at our door.

We are a wholesale company... that also sells to the public. The first thing a returns associate needs to know is "Who gets credit, and how much?". If it a customer with an account it then becomes a question of is it a warranty, a new return (just didn't need it), a new defective item or a core return. Then the returns associate needs to determine if the part is returnable to the manufacturer, can we get a core rebate, if it was just selected incorrectly should it go back on the shelf... and on and on and on.

So, with all of that said, it is always best to have the paperwork printed and in the box so that our returns department (five full time associates) can quickly read what needs to be done and speed your credit. We understand it takes a few minutes to fill out the request and print the approval for your return, but without it we cannot determine what is needed. For your own benefit, please fill out the return form... and we will pledge to push the credit back to you as quickly as we can.

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Auto Parts 101

One of the first lessons we learned here at Autopartstomorrow.com when we opened up our wholesale auto parts inventory to the public was that we needed to get back to basics about what we called those parts. We have been selling to professionals for over 80 years, so when we used the acronym V.I.N. they already knew that was a Vehicle Identification Number. We cannot assume that everyone who needs to buy an auto part automatically knows what that auto part might be called. Even our parts catalogs sometimes call parts by different names. What may be a fuel pump to one may be called a sending unit to another. There are differences between the two if you know auto parts, but that is just semantics to a customer who needs help.

As a result, I am always on the lookout for resources that help explain the basics on auto parts. An educated customer is more likely to buy their auto parts from us. With that in mind I was excited to find this article on the carinsurance.org web page. It is thorough and easy to understand... and quite helpful on a very basic level. Perfect as a tool for our beginning customers. Check out the site at http://www.carinsurance.org/parts-of-a-car/ and if you have any further questions do not hesitate to call us at 1-800-547-2052.

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Auto Heat Exchanger

Part of the excitement in an era of fast-change auto technology is the interim steps within the process. I am sure you have heard the least common denominator American mantra "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". What we are finding now is that turn of the century internal combustion engine technology has huge areas of unexplored efficiency gains. One such improvement comes from the field of Thermodynamics. It seems that using heat for conversion into electricity is a widely used technology that has never really been applied to the automotive industry.

This article in today's Sciencedaily.com discusses the potential in capturing this underutilized wasted heat and turning into free cooling or storing it for use in an electrical process (can you say hybrid?). While it won't be as easy as bolting on the pictured device, we can surely work out the details well enough to create an under-hood converter that could tap into this wasted resource and do "something". Like most technological leaps, it typically takes one person to ask the question in a different way and then others to take the new line of reasoning and invent the breakthrough device. Hopefully today's article has gotten the wheels of thought rolling in a young genius engineering student who will change the way we use wasted energy in automobiles. I don't think cars are going away. Let's just continue to make them better and more efficient. Maybe someday in the near future you will be buying this thermo-electric generator from us.

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How Does an Airbag Work?

As I was driving through Athens this past weekend I happened upon an accident scene where a lady who looked to be in her 80's had just wrecked her car into a telephone pole. There were several people already on the scene and an ambulance from the hospital located just down the street was approaching in my rear view mirror. As I pulled over to let them by, I was able to see that she was speaking with a woman there to help, and appeared confused but unhurt. Her BMW though was quite damaged. I could not tell from the scene what had happened, but the right front of her car was totally folded under and it looked like the passenger side wheel was almost totally torn off.

What I was impressed by was that every section of the entire car had deployed an air bag. Drivers side, passenger side and both sides front and rear doors were covered by air bags. She was the only occupant, but the car had automatically attempted to protect everyone who may have been in the car. I had to imagine how badly the woman may have been hurt in the past without that type of safety equipment.

Today's post is to share some information with our customers on how the technology works. It is really quite amazing, and probably should be part of your decision making process when replacing your car. More protection is better, and the newer the car, the more likely it will have the side restraint airbags. Obviously the picture above is just an attention getter, not an aftermarket airbag...

How does an airbag work?

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Why Can't I Just Exchange It?

Online auto parts sites such as Autopartstomorrow.com offer many conveniences that give the customer more power in determining how to manage the maintenance and upkeep of their car. Gone are the days when you had to take your car to a shop and have them diagnose and price the repair while you had absolutely no clue about what those parts and services should cost. Now, an informed consumer can check diagnostic codes for suggested repair time, look up their own repair parts on catalogs provided by multiple sites and compare costs. In the case of our site... order the part for much less than even the garage normally would pay, and get it the next day. Those are all of the good things.

Now for the bad. If you are working on your car on Saturday and accidentally damage a piece while removing or re-installing it, what do you do? If you order a part and find out later that your engine is a 4.6L but you thought it was a 5.4L, now you have ordered the wrong part. In both of those scenarios the local garage or auto parts store has several same day options. You do as well, but you won't be ordering the part from a wholesale parts distributor on the web and getting it today. Like everything in life there are positives and negatives to auto parts online. Great pricing, wide availability and easy to use tools are all great. However, their are benefits to local availability... and costs to those stores that will be passed on to you.

This brings up an issue that I would like to address here; Exchanges. Since we will never be able to have a face to face transaction, it becomes impossible for us to create an exchange procedure. We require that the buy and refund transactions stand completely on their own. What we do instead is work closely with our customers to try to minimize the turn around time for the second part, and try to credit the first part in a timely manner. Most of the time the actual part number needed is different, and the price is not the same. We would need the customer to make another online order for the new part (our experts are ready to help you confirm the part number) and communicate with us about expediting the credit once it shows back up at our warehouse. I will agree that this can sometimes cause financial stress, not to mention become an inconvenience, but we feel the small percentage of issues like this are easily outweighed by the huge savings on the actual parts.

Over the years, many industries have made sweeping changes to the way they do business. If you are old like me, you remember hardware stores where a friendly gentleman walked you to the dingy recesses of their store to find the exact widget you need (and paid full retail for it). I worked at a full service Gas Station where we charged an astronomical $1.50 on the full service pumps while self service was only $1.09 (and I stayed busy all day). I am even buying my prescription eyeglasses and contact lenses online these days because the savings are tremendous. Businesses serve a niche of their market to the best of their ability, and will live or die based on where a customer places their trust. Full Service Hardware stores are now almost non existent, replaced by Home Depot and Lowes. You cannot buy full service gas anymore. Local Opticians are almost gone as well... Consumers are very intelligent and will always be weighing the pros and cons. We hope that our extraordinary prices and service will help overcome some of the built in inconvenience of long distance transactions. It will be up to you to decide.

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How Does a Car Differential Work?

Commonly called the "Rear End" in cars with rear wheel drive, this video does a great job of explaining the basics of how this complicated mechanism works.

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Morgan Handcrafted Vehicles

Morgan is not a name badge that gets brought up all that often but they are still around, still hand building extraordinarily beautiful vehicles. Click through to their home page for more photos of their amazing vehicles. http://www.morgan-motor.co.uk/

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Great News for the Big 3

It seems that the good news items for the big 3 auto makers in Detroit just continues to roll in. Ford was able to avoid the Federal stimulus money by just squeaking through the worst automotive downturn in decades, and now they are setting new profit records. Dodge repaid over 5 Billion in fed money just yesterday. General Motors emerged from bankruptcy a few months ago and is doing very well. This press release today from GM highlights a major uptick in hiring and production, all in Detroit (and they really need it).

It seems the unexpected windfall being reaped by the Japan Earthquake induced production halt is causing shortages of vehicles of all makes. On my ride into work the expressway passes by several new car dealership lots. One of the fixtures for the last few years was an over the road trailer parked against the back fence facing the road with a painted ad "$10,000 off new F-150 trucks!". This morning there was a banner covering up the "$10,000 off" that now says "We Have / IN STOCK". It is a great thing for the economy and great for us because the more domestic vehicles they are able to sell, the more OE auto parts we will be moving in a few years.

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Pause for Classic Cars

Sometimes it's just good to sit back and look at a beautiful car... Plus I'll throw in a link to a place in Texas that has a few more, for sale!

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Jaguar C x75 Will Make Production!

One of the most exciting concept cars from last years car show circuit was the gorgeous Jaguar C x75 Twin Turbine Hybrid. This article from Car and Driver magazine highlights some of the modifications that will be required to bring it to market. The most disappointing will be that the twin turbine piece will be dropped on their initial entry, but Jaguar executives promise they are dedicated to the technology and that it will be reintroduced as soon as they perfect the production version.

One of the things most desirable about the concept was the myriad of propulsion options available. The turbines are actually able to run on many different types of fuel and can be used to power the wheels or boost the charging and electric motors that will be positioned at each of the four drive wheels. It is exciting to watch new technology come on line... it is more exciting to see it wrapped in such a luxurious package.

The one down side may be this quote from Carl-Peter Forster, the CEO of Jaguar parent Tata Motors. "Figure on a seven-figure window sticker when the car arrives here". However, if it were within reach of everyone it wouldn't be so special would it. Sometimes it is good to still have stretch dreams like this one...

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Restoring a Car - Easy Ways to Get Started

Author: Lynn West

Walk down the street in any suburban neighborhood and you are bound to eventually come across a home that has one or more cars that are being restored parked in the driveway. In fact, restoring cars is a very popular trend in American, as many enthusiasts strive to recreate the zooming, and often muscle cars, of America's auto pastime.

However, for those who are just getting started on this fabulous journey-that can net you a really sleek-looking restored car-there are few great starter tips that can greatly aid you along the way.
Shop for car restoring parts online and at junkyards.

These days, you don't even need to step foot outside of your home in order to get your hands on the car parts that you will require for restoring a classic car. There are countless online car parts websites that offer great deals and vast selection on the hardest to find of classic car parts. You can even find online junkyard inventories, for those especially difficult to locate parts.

Know what you're getting into beforehand. A good rule of thumb to follow is to really know what you are looking at, as far as overall costs of restoring a car, before you leap off the diving board and into the money pool. There is a great way to easily accomplish this, too. Let's imagine that you were considering buying a classic car that needed to be restored, but you had no idea what was required in order to bring it up to par. One way to find out fast is by hiring the services of a mobile mechanic, who could meet you at the location of the vehicle and offer you an honest and reliable assessment of the parts needed, as well as what type of costs you will have to pay to restore the car, for a nominal fee.

Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/classics-articles/restoring-a-car-easy-ways-to-get-started-3274078.html
About the Author

Mr. Leroy Daniels owns and operates the new website, CarsAndExercising.com. It serves as an "online Go-To Corner of the Internet to find informative and fun information about Cars And Exercising."

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