Is it A1-Cardone? I’ve gotten things from them when ordering, but never purchased directly. I didn’t have any issues, but others have.
They actually have factories in the USA. I’ve bought some O/T vehicle parts from them and experienced no problems with them.
Never had a problem with water pumps from them. I used them on a lot of different cars over the years. Local parts house was a distributor for them. Every fuel pump did not last a year. Electric or mechanical were all problems. They would replace the pump but not pay for the labor or towing. Just my experience, your may vary.
Any house brand re manufactured part is generally cardone. Use to just have their name but most phased that out. Never had a issue. They got bought out this past month or so. Curious to see if the quality changes.
Sold tons of A1 Cardone parts for Oreilly Auto Parts. Only issues I ever saw were the OT Tundra Secondary Air Pumps. I replaced a few under warranty replacement. Of course the OEM ones were **** too.
When I was active, in the sixties, I got hooked up with them, for carbs. They supplied The Pep Boys. Never an issue.
It has been 15 years since I sold car parts but I used to work for Kragens (csk auto, todays It's part of O'Reilly's), at the time I preferred "A1 cardone" to most of the garbage new water pumps because the new ones were coming in from China occasionally you would get lucky and get a Japanese one or maybe a European one but the cardone pumps were always original castings that were manufactured sometimes in the United States or sometimes in Mexico It was very rare you saw one of the rebuilt parts come back with a defect It was usually an idiot that didn't know what they were doing.
Most cardone stuff I've used was fine. However I bought a distributor last fall and the drive gear was the wrong size as was the housing that fit into the block, and the notch on the housing for the distributor cap was in the wrong location. Something like a water pump shouldn't have those issues as long as it's dimensionally fine.
I have one of their new water pumps on my car, open the box, it looked great. Had all the extra stuff in it too. Painted it, put it on, so far no problems in 7 years. Got it on eBay in 2015, like $16 with free shipping. How someone made a profit on that, it escapes me.
Good quality across the line, for the most part. Some stuff was an issue, but that was most often encountered when the OE was a poor design. They did incorporate some changes to those when they were aware. The only thing that might bite you is they often merge many part numbers together so there aren't 50 different parts, more like 15, so you need to compare the old one to the new one before installing, just as you should every time. Clocking GM alternators is an obvious one. One place that was a h***le was when you had something that they rebuilt, but good cores had dried up. Carter 2BBLs were really bad in the late 80s. Went through 15 different ones across the whole SW region before a good one came in. Pros (shops with an account) could get reimbursed for warranty labor, but it was a process where the effort had to be less than the payout. A half hour flat rate easy job wasn't worth going through the h***le to get paid, because the back office would spend that much time at least getting it back and doing all the paper. It was tough to get a whole engine covered for the price of an oil pump, too.
Used a lot but the last couple were total junk. Latest was a water pump on a 355, lasted maybe a week and then leaked like mad, so I got mad and went with a Delco pump from XL-def. more $ but it was great and was fine when I sold the car. Another was an electric wiper motor, tested it on the bench before I installed--it failed there!
A couple years ago, bought a reman steering gear, junk. Felt terrible just turning it on the bench (bearing) then I go to install lines and find there is no piddle valve in the port... ..
In the parts business most of my work career. A-1 Cardone was an industry leader. Good parts and quality. I think they have slipped considerably over past decade. Had two GM power steering pump failures in less than 500 miles recently. All parts can be a ****shoot these days. Good luck on the pump.
Used their booster/master cyl on my 67 No issues. Their rebuilt steering box is on my other ride. Over 30k mikes and no issues.
Yeah...that's why all junkyards go out of business, because everything they've got there is worthless.
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