Looking for a recommended site to order GM oem parts. Thanks for any suggestions.

Rock Auto

FYI if you use many of the dealer's online stores. IF they are offering a ridiculously low price like a 3-5% markup over dealer cost tread cautiously. They will make it up on the shipping and handling side. No dealer can exist on that low margin for very long.

I was a GM dealership parts counterman for a bit over 47 years. Many people print the page and come in wanting me to match that price. I always asked them if they had gone to the checkout page and almost none of them had (so they said, not like anyone is going to scam anybody, right?). As long as I did not have to put in a credit card first like some sites have I would run it to the end and show them what the true cost would be. If it was one of the sites that had to have a credit card entered I would tell them to enter their information and then compare.

GM Performance Parts were my favorite ones. Markup from dealer cost (our book cost) to "trade" (discount usually given to shops and businesses in automotive work) was 10%. Many dealers will discount and sell the performance line to the trade price for all as it is a very competitive area. One dealer would play the 3% markup all day long. He made up well over the 7% difference by charging a handling charge. I quoted one customer an intake manifold, it was fifty dollars more plus the shipping if he had bought it from that dealer.

The parts we sold in our dealership did not have a handling charge normally, GM ships to the dealers at no charge with one exception. That is a part ordered with overnight shipping at the request of the customer or the dealer. One advantage of buying at a local dealer.

Some cusstomers were genuinely surprised on how little the difference was between their final price and our price, sometimes 10-15% and then having to wait several days for the part. I tried to be competitive, some cases I could and some not.

Thanks Shovelhead, specifically I'm looking for c7 Stingray parts, the back spoiler and the front splitter/spoiler. Nothing too obnoxious, ours didn't come with either though. I have not checked local dealer parts prices, just online.

gmpartsdirect here also.

gmpartsdirect has a terrible reputation on corvetteforum. They are an arm of FLOW CHEVROLET.

They only communicate via e-mail, no phone calls, not even if you call FLOW CHEVROLET. They may have good pricing but they more often than not drop ship from other GM sources, hence the often long delays from ordering to shipping to receiving. Their shipping costs are often more expensive because they charge for the part to get to them from another source, then to the consumer. I experienced two bad large purchases from them.

I would recommend https://www.cultragfactoryparts.com/ Gene and Patrick formerly worked for a dealership and went out on their own. Their pricing is excellent and they ship more quickly w/o gouging the consumer. Check out their reputation on corvetteforum.

Another source, also with a good reputation is https://www.trunkmonkeyparts.com/

I'm on my 4th Corvette and would only deal with one of these two, never gmpartsdirect again.

Add me to the screw gmpartsdirect group. I ordered about $200 worth of parts a few weeks ago (parking sensor and a door handle). Shortly after I ordered I received the email below. I told them I am not sending them my DL info over the innerwebs. They cancelled my order. I'll try Cultrag.

Hi,
Thank you for your recent order. Due to the total amount of this order and for your protection, we will need a copy of a valid photo ID in order to ship this order.

Please email your ID back to this email address: customerservice@gmpartsdirect.com

This order is on hold awaiting your response.

I use GMPartsHouse.com

Gene Culley of CULTRAG used to run the online parts for gmpartshouse. They had a good Corvette community reputation there, but for whatever reason he and later Patrick, started their own site.

To the original poster, there are a number of reputable aftermarket venders on corvetteforum. Some of their parts are of the same quality if not better than oem. You can check corvetteforum for references. There is a Transaction Feedback section to inquire about any vendor you may have concerns about.

DO NOT USE CORVETTEMODS. They have a terrible reputation and were banned from that forum.

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Originally posted by MRBTX:
Thanks Shovelhead, specifically I'm looking for c7 Stingray parts, the back spoiler and the front splitter/spoiler. Nothing too obnoxious, ours didn't come with either though. I have not checked local dealer parts prices, just online.

If I was still in the business I'd try to help. Got out the end of June '17, not a bad run for what was supposed to be a temporary job until I was able to get into the Bell System. 47 years later I finally got out! Ten dealerships in that time, longest tenure was 18 1/2 years, shortest was 8 months. Every time to better things.

Have you tried Scoggin-Dickey in Lubbock? I started dealing with them in '79 while I lived in New Mexico and after moving back here bought some parts over the years. Unfortunately I have no contact names there anymore, the fellow I dealt with all those years retired a couple of years before I did.

There are a number of them. Google it.