There's smart ways, and there's dumb ways to buy chevy truck parts. One of the smart ways to buy chevy truck parts, if you don't need to buy a new part, is to head to a quality auto salvage yard. You can save huge percentages on your purchase and yet you'll be buying quality chevy parts, made by the GM corporation. In other words, you'll get the exact same quality you're replacing, but for a fraction of the price you'd have to pay to order the new factory part from the supplier. But, what if you want to buy new? One of the worst places to buy a new part, in my experience, is from the dealer. The dealer seems to feel that they have a monopoly or a guaranteed trust sales value: in other words, they believe that the consumer will only buy from them no matter what the price they charge because they are the only ones that can be trusted in the auto parts sales market! Watch out for high priced dealer parts--that's often a very dumb way to buy chevy truck parts. Get online and find outlets that will let you buy either original parts of quality after-market parts for far less than pre-supposing dealers! (Some dealers do try to be competitive, so give them a fair chance to be competitive--but do your homework so you know what a fair price is for those chevy truck parts before you begin your negotiation.)