Contact the online seller and confirm the part numbers. Do this even if they have the car parts listed for your application (without the part numbers).
Never offer to Donate your car unless you are doing it for moral purposes. Before 2005 The IRS was writing out deductions like nothing. Until they realize that they where losing Millions in revenue. Nowadays, to receive a deduction on a vehicle donation the value must exceed, but not including, $5,000. What does this mean? If you donate your car and they give you $5001.00, then your deduction is only $1.00. You are batter off taking it to a 2006 bmw 750i and getting $50 bucks for it.
Garages set out your bill for repairs by stating the cost of the parts, and the cost of the labour to fit them. As we all know, garages make most of their money with the labour, and even car parts costing just a few pounds can end up costing you several hundred pounds once you have added on the labour costs.
Be aware of fake or counterfeit car parts and report someone trying to sell these. A Bosch 044 fuel pump for example may be listed as “Bosch 044 ‘style’ fuel pump” or “Bosch 044 ‘replacement’ fuel pump”. This may be misleading as the fuel pump is not a genuine Bosch and ‘Bosch’ should not feature in the title. Others simply advertise fake parts as genuine items and sell these with fake packaging. Buy from a reputable seller and purchase using PayPal (see below) so that you’re covered.
Even though there may be plenty of used parts available in your city, you may not know where to look. Used parts shops and recyclers that sell them are popularly known as junk yards, salvage yards, wrecking yards as well as auto recyclers. So all you need to do is search for such places in your locality by using newspapers or the internet.
Different companies can order and sell the same product under their own name. This is allowed. Therefore you can have the same OEM part, but with different company name labels on them. Often this will affect the price, but the main thing to look out for it that it is a genuine OEM Accessory.