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Used Car Parts in Michigan and Beyond!

Would you like to save money and purchase used car parts but you haven’t done it before? Pete’s Auto Parts is here to help you with used car parts in Michigan and beyond.

We hope this blog post will tell you everything you need to know about how to buy used car parts from Pete’s Auto Parts so you can buy like a boss and feel good about it!

Research Before Your Wallet Comes Out

When you are in the market for used car parts, it’s smart to do a bit of research on your potential supplier. If you want some good information on Pete’s Auto Parts, we can make it just a little easier, and we will also encourage you to google us and read what others have to say! We do a great job at providing used car parts! 

  • During our inventory process, we take videos of our vehicles running and upload these videos to our youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/@petesauto7873 This means you can hear the engine run before you purchase it! Head over to our youtube channel and subscribe, or click the link as needed before you buy used car parts so you can see we buy quality late model salvage with good running engines. You can search our youtube channel for the stock number of the vehicle you are looking at, or a salesperson can provide you with a link! 
  • Everyone is on Facebook these days, and Pete’s Auto Parts is no different. We hope you will catch our vibe and learn a lot about us through our posts. Find us at https://www.facebook.com/PetesAutoParts Every Monday, we post what we’ve affectionately nicknamed a PPPP (People/Parts/Pets Post) featuring one employee, one part type, or one of our staff’s awesome pets! They are obviously the cutest of the posts! 
  • You can find Pete’s Auto Parts on Google! We have a 4.4 star rating, we get a ton of 5 star reviews but almost every business has occasional Karen that gives us one star. Recently we had a one star review from someone who had never once shopped with us, but their cousin used to work here, I mean, not much we can do about those ones… but we will always work really hard to satisfy our customers and when you reading our google reviews you will see many testimonials of real customers!

New Prices Are Helpful for Comparison 

Look we encourage you to find out the price of the part you are trying to buy new, because we know we can save you so much money on used car parts! Pete’s Auto Parts saves a lot of people hundreds and thousands of dollars over new parts, every single day! But go ahead, do some research before you call or text us, so you know what a good price is for the used car parts you need. Most often our customers tell us they are saving a ton of money for our guaranteed parts! Sometimes, there will be a part such as a hood that is quoted for the same cost brand new as it does used — pro tip – ask if any body piece you are buying new is painted or just primed, as paint expenses are a huge driver in choosing a recycled OEM part over a new primed part. Used car parts can often save you a ton when you do not have to paint! 

VIN First 

So many customers will reach out to us, they will call or text Pete’s Auto Parts for used car parts and then they are surprised by all the questions we ask them. Just one example, if you drive a 2016 Silverado 1500 pickup truck, and you are looking for the transmission, there are 12 different transmissions that Chevy made and put into that year Silverado, so we need to know the answers to a log of questions. Some are questions you might expect like the engine size, if it’s two wheel drive or four wheel drive, if your truck has a tow package or not, but there are also a lot of specifics like if your truck came with option code MYC or M5U, and some of those transmissions we even need to know the ID number from the transmission… the average vehicle owner is not going to know the answer to these questions, and that is ok, because we can look up your vehicle options and find you the right used car parts based on your VIN! If you can give us your Vehicle Identification Number, the VIN, we can look that up and ensure the used car parts you order are the correct fit for your vehicle!

Reach out to Pete’s Auto Parts Any Way You Prefer

We are here for you on the phone, by text, email, skype, even facebook messenger! Some of our older clients like to walk into our office and speak to a salesperson face-to-face instead of calling or texting, and that is just fine by us! Tommy is available in the front office 9am to 4pm Monday through Friday, besides his lunch break of course. We have salespeople on the phones and responding to online messages throughout the day, with staff available from 8am to 5:30pm Monday through Friday. You can always call or text our main number 616-669-6592, but if you want to contact someone specific directly, here is the info in alphabetical order: 

  • Brian: 616-797-7978 brian@petesauto.net X216 (works from home)
  • Dan: 616-797-7973 dan@petesauto.net X213 (works from home)
  • Lindsey: 616-797-7969 lindsey@petesauto.net X210 (office in our sales and business office) ella habla español
  • Tommy: 616-797-7964 tommy@petesauto.net X224 (office at Pete’s) 

Pricing & Availability is Easy

After you contact us to purchase used car parts with your vehicle info or VIN, we’ll do a nationwide search for the used car parts you need and provide the pricing and the time frame we can have your part ready for pickup, delivered or shipped. Statistically speaking 42% of the time someone contacts us for used car parts, we have the parts available at our location in Jenison, Michigan. Then 56% of the time the used car parts are available at one of our partner facilities, and we can source that part for you and warranty it like it is our own, it just may take an extra day or three depending on if it’s coming from Kentucky or Colorado. Only 2% of the time customers contact us for a part we literally cannot source the part, and that is just the nature of the used car parts world, unfortunately, as there will be people looking for very old or very new parts that are unavailable. But 98% of the time we can provide the used car parts you need!

The used car parts we have available on site at Pete’s Auto Parts usually take between 1 hour and 24 hours to have ready for you.  For most parts (besides engines, transmissions, and some small warehouse parts,) we wait until a part is actually sold to remove it from the vehicle, and we remove sold used car parts from vehicles in the order that they are sold, so the sooner you order the sooner we will have your part ready for pickup! If we are going to deliver the part to your facility, we normally deliver the next business day or two business days after being ordered. But if you don’t want the used car parts delivered until a specific day, just let us know. Lots of shops that are short on storage space prefer to have us deliver their used car parts once the car on site or even the hoist!

The time frame is a bit longer when we bring in used car parts from one of our partner yards. First the partner yard removes the sold used car parts from the vehicle at their facility, QC checks them and cleans them, packages them and ships them to us. The transit time is usually 1-4 days just depending on where the used car parts are coming from. Once we receive the parts, we have to unpackage and QC check again, after that is done we will contact you that your used car parts are ready for pickup, or if it’s a delivery, then we will deliver the used car parts out to you. So many of our vendors are great to do business with and they very trustworthy and reliable, so we feel confident when we order in hard-to-find used car parts when we do not have them on site! Either way, whether the used car parts you are looking for are here locally or we are sourcing them from another facility, we can let you know the price and when you could expect the part!

Warranty and/or Labor Coverage Options 

All the used car parts we sell at Pete’s Auto Parts (besides tires & batteries) come with a standard 90 day warranty, and you have the option to extend that warranty to 1 year by paying 10% of the purchase price of the used car parts, or to extend the warranty to a full 3 years by paying 25% of the purchase price! Pete’s Auto Parts also offers labor protection at 20% of the payout for used car parts with less than 200,000 miles on them. Basically, if you are looking for $500 in labor coverage, the cost is $100. This labor protection is good for the entire time frame of the warranty, so if you only buy labor protection, the part comes with a 90 day warranty and your labor protection is good for 90 days. If you choose to extend your warranty to 1 year or 3 years, the labor protection is good for the time frame of the warranty you purchased. Your salesperson will offer you a warranty on any mechanical or electrical parts with under 200,000 miles, basically any part that can fail we sell a warranty on. We do not offer warranties on sheet metal because there is nothing that fails so it seems like it would be a waste of your money, and we just aren’t about that. We do have a lifetime guarantee against perforation on sheet metal, and our batteries have a lifetime warranty as long as you save your receipt! Batteries are sold for $60 each and come with a LIFETIME forever guarantee as long as you save your receipt. Feel free to check out all the details on our warranties here. if you would like! 

Paying for Used Car Parts

Almost every store, in 2024, has you pay for your purchase up front, and our process at Pete’s Auto Parts is no different. After we have located the used car parts that you want to purchase and you have agreed to the pricing and availability, your salesperson will text or email you a secure payment link. Pete’s Auto Parts utilizes Stripe for our payment processing because it is so secure, and by doing it this way, we never receive your credit card information, only Stripe does. Stripe is the nation’s second largest credit card processor, with 21% of the market share, second only to PayPal. If you are uncomfortable paying by clicking the Stripe payment link, you can instead send us a PayPal payment at www.PayPal.Me/petesautoparts/ If you don’t like PayPal OR Credit cards, you are welcome to come down to our location at 2544 Port Sheldon St, in Jenison, Michigan. We take cash and credit cards in person! 

There are some customers who get nervous about paying for used car parts in full before they see them, before they can pick them up or have them delivered. We understand that, and we hope you will let us build trust with you by the first order you place, instead of paying in full, we can accept a deposit to start the order. That way on the first go-around, you can get a feel for our level of customer service and learn that if there is a problem, you will get a refund, or an exchange, your choice. We really cannot process an order for used car parts without accepting some payment, whether that is a deposit or a payment in full, because these parts take a lot of labor to prepare! We have to send a technician out into the field to pull the part, bring it to our shipping department, wash the part, QC the part, take pictures of the part, update the part in our computer system, and then call you. So that being said, we do not start on an order for used car parts until there is at least a deposit on the order, we have just had too many people order parts and not pick them up. Be aware that if you ghost us, you will lose your deposit! When the used car parts are ready to be picked up, you can come in to look at them, and if you are not satisfied then we can find a different part or refund your payment or deposit.

Updates Your Way 

As soon as the used car parts are ready for pickup, we will contact you, however you wish to be contacted. Our preferred method is usually text, but we can text you, call you or email you to let you know your used car parts are ready, whichever you prefer. We will also send you pictures of the used car parts if you want them, as well! If there is an issue with your order, we don’t anticipate and issue but something things happen, like a shipping delay or if there was more damage on the used car parts than we were expecting, you will receive a call, text or email with pictures and a description of what is going on. At Pete’s Auto Parts, we want to work with our customers to make sure they are satisfied with their used car parts purchase, so if you aren’t happy with the parts we have prepped for you, all you have to do is tell your salesperson that by phone, text or email and they can help you get you a different part or they can issue a refund. 

Ship/Delivery/Pickup

Picking up your used car parts? Come on down to 2544 Port Sheldon St, Jenison MI 49428 Monday through Friday between 8am and 4pm. When you come in, our friendly office assistant, Amanda, will greet you and ask if you are picking up parts, you can say yes and tell her what used car parts you are there to pick up. Amanda will find your order, finalize it, give you a paper copy of your invoice, and provide you with instructions on walking back to our customer pickup area if it’s a small part or driving around to the garage door if you have large used car parts, for loading up the parts. Our QC and Shipping staff will gladly assist you to get your used car parts into your vehicle and off down the road! 

If you have a shop in our delivery area, or perhaps your mechanic or body shop is in our delivery area, we can deliver the used car parts right to that shop. If we are delivering the used car parts, one of our four friendly delivery drivers comes to the business during normal business hours — we deliver Monday through Friday. Tio check if your shop or your mechanic’s shop is inside of our delivery area, check out this map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1xpcgtqNLyC-0SkCFXaj6Qw9SBHDTbZiw&usp=sharing

When we are shipping used car parts to you, relax, you don’t need to do a thing. Pete’s Auto Parts will send out the parts on UPS or on an LTL freight truck, and we will provide you with the tracking number. One thing we ask is that on freight truck shipments, that you inspect the used car parts first and sign for the parts afterwards, just in case there was any damage in transit! We do a thorough quality check before the parts leave and we package parts well, but occasionally freight trucks will damage parts, and as long as you do not sign for those parts and instead inspect and refuse delivery or at least note all the damage on the BOL with the freight truck driver, and take pictures of the used car parts, we can recoup some of the loss from the freight company. If you sign for damaged parts, the freight company will not help us at all!

Buying Used Car Parts : Summary 

We don’t know if you so much *enjoyed* this blog post on buying used car parts but we hope you learned something, or at least that now you are ready to now call us, text us or email us, with your VIN. At Pete’s Auto Parts we know that buying used car parts is the right choice for so many reasons: used car parts will help you save money, help our earth so we are a good steward of the environment, and because used car parts are reliable, available and have a great warranty, and the very best parts for your vehicle are the same parts the original manufacturer intended to be on your vehicle — they made them after all!

For all of your used car parts needs, please reach out to Pete’s Auto Parts by calling or texting 616-669-6592 to learn more about our top-notch used car, truck, van and SUV parts. Or if you prefer to search our site, you can do that now on our used auto parts search page.

Even if you decide that you don’t want to buy from Pete’s Auto Parts, we hope you’ll go with recycled parts from a locally owned and operated company, such as one of our friends and competitors Weller Auto Parts or Morris Rose Auto Parts or Premier Auto Parts or Schram Auto Parts or Grand Valley Auto Parts or Joe’s Auto Parts or M-45 Auto Parts. Although we’d RATHER you search for used auto parts near me and purchase all your auto parts from Pete’s, our second choice is for you to stick with a family owned company instead of from a big consolidator or chain. We believe in supporting local!  

More Info:

Check us out on facebook! https://facebook.com/petesautoparts

Find videos of our vehicles running on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@petesauto7873 

If you would like to read more about Pete’s Auto Parts and about buying used auto parts, we have many more blog posts at https://petesauto.net/auto-body/

 

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