Car Quest Closing their Machine shops???
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Since Advanced Auto Parts has bought Car Quest are they closing all the machine shops?? I heard Advanced does not do and does not want to do machine shops???? Friend of mine is the Machinist at a Car Quest up hear in canada and Tuesday while the deal was being announced in the USA a Guy from head office in Toronto came in and said send him home and close the shop till at least January?? Couple of our friends have their their motors sitting there and are worried. 
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Re: Car Quest Closing their Machine shops???
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Better get them out now. My GF works at a Car Quest here and when they took it over from Central Auto Parts they closed the machine shop. Advance will probably do the same.
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Re: Car Quest Closing their Machine shops???
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But will the independents remain is the real unknown. Advance stores are all company owned.
Last edited by Guitar Jones; 10/22/13 03:02 PM.
"Follow me the wise man said, but he walked behind"
'92 D250 Club Cab CTD, 47RH conversion, pump tweaks, injectors, rear disc and hydroboost conversion.
'74 W200 Crew Cab 360, NV4500, D44, D60 and NP205 divorced transfer case. Rear disc and hydroboost conversion.
2019 1500 Long Horn Crew Cab 4WD, 5.7 Hemi.
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Re: Car Quest Closing their Machine shops???
[Re: Guitar Jones]
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10/22/13 06:30 PM
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But will the independents remain is the real unknown. Advance stores are all company owned.
Sure they'll be around. Advance taking over has nothing to do with the independents. Independents
might make a move to another flag, but in no way will Advance try telling them what they can and can't do. So you may drop off your work at Carquest but pick it up later at a Napa. lol
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Re: Car Quest Closing their Machine shops???
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10/23/13 09:47 AM
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Beep you need to come up here.The 2 Advanced I deal with are great.When I was at the shop we used them a lot.2 of the guys that are parts pros can find just about anything.My kid is one also.They actually know how to find stuff in a book.Plus I get a good discount on stuff even though Im retired now.The 2 guys we dealt with at AZ were good also.They also knew what a book was.Books are going by the wayside though.Rocky
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Re: Car Quest Closing their Machine shops???
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10/23/13 01:55 PM
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I dropped my block off at the carquest in London Friday. He never mentioned anything. In fact I know they have added some new equipment lately. Hope we don't lose them. They are a great shop to deal with.
He was after Kitchener's Line hone equipment a few weeks back and buddy was pissed as he was slow already?? Maybe stuff is coming from kitchener?? 
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Re: Car Quest Closing their Machine shops???
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10/23/13 03:15 PM
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I dropped my block off at the carquest in London Friday. He never mentioned anything. In fact I know they have added some new equipment lately. Hope we don't lose them. They are a great shop to deal with.
He was after Kitchener's Line hone equipment a few weeks back and buddy was pissed as he was slow already?? Maybe stuff is coming from kitchener??
Yes they mentioned they were supposed to be getting a line hone. The shop manager was in Kitchener yesterday to get their big block dodge torque plate to hone my block.
They knew about the sale but nothing about the shop closing. They felt they were safe because their shop makes money. 
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Re: Car Quest Closing their Machine shops???
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10/23/13 06:41 PM
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[Edited by Moparts - Family Friendly Site - Keep it clean] that is Perrys personal plates! he won't like that much when I tell him tonight!
I think they just borrowed it.
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Re: Car Quest Closing their Machine shops???
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10/25/13 04:42 AM
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Beep you need to come up here.The 2 Advanced I deal with are great.When I was at the shop we used them a lot.2 of the guys that are parts pros can find just about anything.My kid is one also.They actually know how to find stuff in a book.Plus I get a good discount on stuff even though Im retired now.The 2 guys we dealt with at AZ were good also.They also knew what a book was.Books are going by the wayside though.Rocky
That's great and the way it should be. May be that I just get tired of them bringing the wrong parts to the counter. I have since started looking them up on line first and just give them the part numbers for what I need. If they need to break out the books I ask to see it as well. Come to think of it, it probably is me. The older I get, the less patience I have.....Beep 
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