Pep Boys Going out of Business Sale

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I don't know if all Pep Boys are going out of business but the ones in Tucson are.
They are keeping the service garage open and closing the retail side.

Anything in the store is 50% off except tires and batteries.
Just thought I would let you all know.
 
Wonder if that includes auto parts?

I'll keep a look out for any local pep boy following the same.
 
I did notice locally they have in a few locations, moved to a single auto shop building, hmm, might have to run down and see tomorrow, if they have anything on fire sale
thanks
Rj
 
They aren't selling any hard parts.
Just what is on the shelves in the store.
Oil , filters , grease , wipers , seat covers , tools , brake cleaner , paint and stuff like that.
They also have some truck tool boxes made by Lund that are a real good deal.
Everything is half off.
 
Places like Rock Auto are probably killing the brick and motar shops in hard part sales to non-professional customers.

I always buy the parts for my fleet of cars from rock auto if I am not looking for OEM and something weird. Point in case, I needed a trans mount for my SHO, I broke it at the drag strip a couple weeks ago. Autozone and checker wanted ~180 bucks for the mount in their "house" brands. I bought the mount off rock auto was a known-to-me brand (anchor) and it was 77 dollars plus shipping. Got it in two days. I replaced the trans mount, and the three engine mounts for less than the price of one mount from a parts store - and it was all equal/better quality.

When I worked at the shops, we never used Pep Boys for parts, as their service always sucked. The delivery time and availability was always way worse than Napa and O'Reilly's.

When I needed tires (245/45/R20) I wanted Nitto 555s. I called around to all the usual tire shops. Bought the tires off Amazon, free 2 day shipping, and took my wheels / tires to Discount Tire and paid them to mount/balance. Came out $80 bucks ahead instead of buying the tires from the tire shop.
 
I went to one today.
The girl working there said they were recently sold and the new owner thinks they will make more money by just doing service on vehicles.
Then she said " I don't know how they can do that when all their mechanics suck ".
I got a good laugh out of that. I have to say I do agree with her though.
 
I stopped going to Pep Boys decades ago. Had them work on the ex's car and it was worse than when I brought it in once "completed".

I used Autozone more than any other, they were closest to me and ad match the others, but since relocating to la frontera, Amazon has been my go-to. The only parts place within 125 mi is Napa, and they have to order most of the stuff I would need anyways, so I use Amazon and once in awhile Rockauto.
 
Pep Boys mechanics are the Maaco paint and body guys of the car industry.
They are the ones who couldn't make it anywhere else.
 
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