Look around you when you are on the road. There are millions of cars, buses, motorcycles, boats and not to mention sports vehicles. They all require or will require some maintenance or parts down the road. It is just a matter of time. In fact according to the U.S. Department of Transportation Statistical Records there were 241 million registered vehicles in 2007 in U.S. alone, and this does not include the vehicles in stores, salvage yards, auto auctions, and countless other places. Now, multiply this many vehicles by the number of parts an average vehicle has, and you get into trillions.
When you look at the successful yacht dealer owners, you know they just didn’t appear last night. Well, you’re not going to come out of the dark and be the ‘star’ in your market either.
Best of all, these ‘Baby Steps’ mean that you’re saving a ton of money. Most of these simple strategies can be done ‘in house’. The worse case scenario is that you need to hire a part time student to keep your mailing list or data up to date or maybe stuff envelopes for mailing. But that’s not a lot.
Although you see your mechanic every 5,000 or so miles, that does not mean that you should wait to have all of your car problems fixed until then. If you notice an issue, make sure that you have a car mechanic that you trust to look at other areas in your car. As cars get older, things start to go. No one wants those really big things to go like the transmission, but they can happen.
But ease of obtaining is not just limited to the age of the car. Vehicles with a limited production are also hard to get parts for, especially if the vehicle is not a big seller. The reason for this is again obvious. Keeping inventory that is not going to be sold is expensive. So auto parts dealers keep limited supplies for these vehicles.
Houston Used Cars are a little unusual in that some of them have been bought and sold from other parts of the country. What happens is that car brokers buy some of these cars in auto auctions and then sale them to the Houston car dealers. So one thing to be aware of is just because these cars are sold here in Houston doesn’t mean that they came from Houston or even Texas for that matter.