This problem is not limited to mail order parts. I have brought parts to the shop from the local parts store only to open the box and find a core in there, not even the re-manufactured part. Rebuilt calipers with the rights and lefts mixed-up in the boxes, alternators with stripped threads, one with a broken mounting bolt still in it! It's really terrible. Then what is the alternative? Buy new Chinese junk that is worse than the defective re-manufactured stuff. If my customers are willing to wait a few days, I will rebuild their OE starter and alternator for them. But finding rebuild parts is tough too. There is allot of junk out there. Repacks just add another layer of the unknown to the equation.
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