Used Transmission Parts Panama City FL

10/1/2004
By Gary Goms

What's the difference between the retail and wholesale markets in modern parts distribution? Some say the overlaps between the markets are huge, some say not.

 

This issue of the difference between retail and wholesale often pops up in the oddest of circumstances. For example, a little over a year ago we were competing in our hill-climb associations most arduous event of the season where the hill we were to climb ascended nearly 2,000 feet along 5.6 miles of dirt road during one of the hottest months of the year. Not knowing that the dirt road had recently been saturated with a chloride hardening agent, I hadnt added enough oil cooler capacity to keep our hill-climb trucks automatic transmission cool. During the qualifying on Saturday, the transmission oil temperatures soared past the boiling point of the fluid, causing us to lose high gear near the finish line. Even at though we won for fast qualifier for the day, it was obvious that we needed more transmission cooling to survive the final event on Sunday.

LOOKING FOR PARTS
Okay, where is it best to go looking for an auxiliary transmission oil cooler at 6 p.m. on a Saturday night? The two major jobbers in the neighboring town were closed, so this left a big-name retailer that stays open on Saturday nights to fill the needs of DIY auto mechanics. The retailer was open, the wholesaler was not, and therein I was reminded of the two different worlds of retailing and wholesaling.

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