Best place to buy OEM parts

Looking to buy Toyota OEM parts online, local dealership has some kid named "Kyler" from lala land that gives me a different price everytime

 

I have had the best luck with BAM wholesaleparts and sparksparts

 

https://parts.camelbacktoyota.com/?referrer=partsfactory.camelbacktoyota.com

 

I just shop the parts.toyota.com site for the best prices. It links to each dealer so I can try and pick up local and most have free shipping over $75 too

 

When I did my front end (coilovers, LCA's, LBJ's, TRE's steering rack) I did a spreadsheet on various places (Camelback was one of them.) McGeorge Toyota beat out all other OEM sellers.

https://parts.mcgeorgetoyota.com

For coilovers, SuspensionLifts.com was the only place that provided an assembled coilover package and beat the price of anywhere else (Moog springs, bilstien 4600 shocks on all fours.) I'll say their response time and shipping is stellar as well, they ship from various warehouses in the U.S., arrived in a matter of days. You can follow the whole story starting here and after a thread drift finishes up here.

The attached sheet is only a couple months old and prices should still be current. It's for an '03.

 

I use toyotapartsdeal.com and get my stuff usually in a few days. It’ll ask for zip code and put you in touch with a dealer that’s an online parts distributor and closest to you.

 

Same here

 

Are the quality of parts any good/reliable on parts.toyota.com?

 

It’s a Toyota website that lists dealerships parts websites. All oem parts.

 

I was real Lucky I had a great relationship with my local dealer 30 years plus.

I have had good luck with both as online suppliers McGeorge and Conicelli Toyota.

 

I had a horrible experience with Toyotapartsdeal. I ordered a few of parts for my front end with plenty of time allowed for shipping shenanigans, and I only got 3 parts out of the 9 I ordered 3 weeks late. The rest of the parts were "just shipped" or "scheduled for shipping today" for about 4 weeks according to the increasingly rude people on the phone, even though the website stated that they were all in stock and ready to ship. When I tried to cancel the order for remaining parts, they gave me a hard time, still insisting that the parts are "scheduled to ship today." They cancelled the order, but then they took two weeks to reimburse the money, and only after I called the chamber of commerce/BBB/some deal like that and complained about them. They called me on the phone 2 hours after I submitted the complaint, and yelled at me for calling the BBB... then processed my refund, and the lady proceeded to tell me to fuck myself before hanging up on me.

I'll never order anything from them, ever ever ever again. I'm not rolling that roulette.

 

I typically do the hard part and find the correct part #'s myself, check the price on my local dealer's site, check the price at a few competing local'ish dealers, and then give "Kyler" a little call to talk. When "Kyler" can't produce a price that at least matches the competing dealer's price, I ask for "Tyler," "Kyler's" older coworker. When "Tyler" understands I prefer to do business with them and don't give their competition my business, he shows "Kyler" how to manually adjust the price. Once "Kyler" does this a few times, he becomes a little more reliable and my go-to choice for buying parts. "Kyler" might be from la-la land, but considering he showed up to work, he's not as lost as some of these other kids these days.. Throw him a bone.

 

This is great advice I did the very same thing in my case it was the parts manager.

 

Parts.toyota.com is definitely where id start for OEM. Find someone close to you