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Welcome to Car Parts Warehouse
If you're looking for quality car parts at discounted prices then you've come to the right place! At Car Parts Warehouse, we have thousands of car parts available for all vehicle makes and models. In fact if we don't have the part your after, we'll get it, GUARANTEED!!
We have searched high and low to ensure that we are able to offer our customer's the highest quality car components and body panels at extraordinarily Good Prices!
We regularly update our range of car parts and currently have in excess of 60,000 products including
car engine parts,
mirrors,
lights,
body panels,
window regulators,
exhausts, starter motors, alternators, brakes
(including discs
and pads),
paint,
steering racks, suspension, fuel tanks,
radiators,
air-con products, filters, and much more.
As well as supplying quality car parts we are also able to offer our customer's a great painted service from just £25! This means we can match the manufacturer's colour code for all bumpers, wing mirrors and other crash repair panels, at just a fraction of the cost.
All of our car parts come with a minimum 1 year Warranty and some like exhausts, even come with a 3 year warranty!
And if you're in need of expert help and advice we are just a click or a phone call away! Feel free to email us or call us on 01782 207555 and one of our qualified staff or engineers will be happy to assist you with any queries that you have. All of our staff are equipped with a wealth of knowledge, in fact most are either ex-mechanics or ex-parts department staff, so you can be sure that you will be in safe hands!
In short, you don't have to be an expert, because we are! We understand your needs and we endeavour to source the right part, at the right time, every time.
To find discounted car parts for your vehicle, either browse our online store or alternatively call our sales hotline on 01782 207555 between the hours of 8am - 8pm Monday to Friday and 9am - 4pm at weekends.
As well as supplying quality car parts we are also able to offer our customer's a great painted service from just £25! This means we can match the manufacturer's colour code for all bumpers, wing mirrors and other crash repair panels, at just a fraction of the cost.
All of our car parts come with a minimum 1 year Warranty and some like exhausts, even come with a 3 year warranty!
And if you're in need of expert help and advice we are just a click or a phone call away! Feel free to email us or call us on 01782 207555 and one of our qualified staff or engineers will be happy to assist you with any queries that you have. All of our staff are equipped with a wealth of knowledge, in fact most are either ex-mechanics or ex-parts department staff, so you can be sure that you will be in safe hands!
In short, you don't have to be an expert, because we are! We understand your needs and we endeavour to source the right part, at the right time, every time.
To find discounted car parts for your vehicle, either browse our online store or alternatively call our sales hotline on 01782 207555 between the hours of 8am - 8pm Monday to Friday and 9am - 4pm at weekends.
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Car Parts Years ago youd have found plenty of blokes tinkering with their cars on a Sunday morning. Bonnets throughout the land would have been open and men would have been furiously adjusting carburettors and setting the gaps in their spark plugs. Nowadays engines have become more advanced and cars in general have more intricate parts put on them. Its highly fashionable for performance Car Parts to be fitted to cars, especially by drivers of a certain age. These Car Parts vary and they can help to improve the overall performance of the car which is what the driver intends. Amongst the many items available in the performance Car Parts ranges are exhausts, brakes and air filters. When these items are fitted to a car the difference in the power can be quite amazing; as can the cars stopping abilities. Other performance Car Parts includes mirrors and lighting that can help to improve the look of the car. Add-on features like spoilers can give the car great street credibility and make it stand out from other cars of a similar make. These days, you will now usually find drivers meeting up at places like McDonalds to compare the Car Parts that have been fitted to their cars. Its not like the old days when Morris Minors would sit in domestic garages whilst their owners tinkered with their engines. Window Regulator Among the many control components installed in every vehicle is the window regulator. The window regulator is the vehicle component that raises and lowers the window glasses. The window regulator allows both the vehicle driver and the passengers to raise or lower the window whenever they need to or feel to. Access to the window regulator of a particular vehicle window is usually given to the person seating close to the windows. However, new window winding mechanisms allow the driver to have full control over all the windows of the vehicle. There are two basic types of window regulators: the manual window regulator and the electric window regulator. A typical manual window regulator set up is composed of many components including a worm gear, several spur gears, linkages, a mechanical plate and a bar used to support the window glass. The window glass is raised or lowered using a hand crank, which would then activate a worm gear/spur gears combination. The rotation of the various gears in turn activates the mechanical plate, thus raising or lowering the window glasses. The function of the window bar and the linkage arm is basically to support the window glass. The electric window regulator also termed as power or automatic window regulator basically does the same thing, except that everything is performed automatically. In a power window regulator set up, the vehicle driver or passengers wont have to manually rotate a crank handle. Instead, everything is done with a touch of a button. A small electric motor integrated with the switching components of the vehicle is responsible for activating the different gears required to lift or to lower the windows. Power or manual window regulators are easily subjected to wearing because of constant use. In case you need to replace the window regulators of your vehicle, youd better be sure that it would work well for it. Of course, replacing a power window regulator would cost a bit more than what it would cost you to replace a manual window regulator. Body Panels A cars bumper is the front-most or rear-most body panel, ostensibly designed to allow the car to sustain an impact without damage to the vehicle's safety systems. Bumpers are not capable of reducing injury to vehicle occupants in high speed impacts, but bumpers are increasingly being designed to mitigate injury to pedestrians struck by cars. Another body panel part that Car Parts Warehouse stocks are grilles. A grille covers an opening in the body of a vehicle to allow air to enter. Most cars feature a grille at the front of the vehicle to protect the radiator and engine. Other common grille locations include below the front bumper, or in front of the wheels (to cool the brakes). A spoiler is another body panel that Car Parts Warehouse stocks. It is also possible to have this body panel painted in our Panel Paint Shop to match the colour of your vehicle. A spoiler is an automotive aerodynamic device whose intended design function is to 'spoil' unfavourable air movement across a body of a vehicle in motion. Spoilers on the front of a vehicle are often called air dams, because in addition to directing air flow they also reduce the amount of air flowing underneath the vehicle which reduces aerodynamic lift. Spoilers are often fitted to race and high-performance sports cars, although they have become common on passenger vehicles as well. Some spoilers are added to cars primarily for styling purposes and have either little aerodynamic benefit or even make the aerodynamics worse. The bonnet is a body panel that is hinged to cover the engine of a car, but allows access to the engine for maintenance and repair. The wing is a body panel that frames the wheel well. The primary purpose of a wing is to prevent sand, mud, rocks and liquids from being thrown into the air by the rotating tyre. Wings are typically rigid body panels and can be damaged by contact with the road surface. Brake Pads Brake Pads are an important part of braking systems for all types of vehicles that are equipped with disc brakes. Brake pads are steel backing plates with friction material bound to the surface facing the brake disc. Brake pads convert the kinetic energy of the car to thermal energy by friction. When a brake pad is heated up by coming into contact with either a brake drum or rotor, it starts to transfer small amounts of friction material to the disc or pad (that is the reason a brake disc has a dull grey finish). The brake rotor and disc (both now with friction material on), will then "stick" to each other to provide stopping power. The friction of the pad against the disc is however responsible for the majority of stopping power. In disc brake applications, there are usually two brake pads per disc rotor, held in place and actuated by a calliper affixed to a wheel hub or suspension upright. There are numerous types of brake pads, depending on the intended use of the vehicle, from very soft and aggressive (such as racing applications) and harder, more durable and less aggressive compounds. Most vehicle manufacturers recommend a specific compound of brake pad for their vehicle, but compounds can be changed (by either buying a different make of pad or upgrading to a performance pad in a manufacturer's range) according to personal tastes and driving styles. Care must always be taken when fitting non standard brake pads, as operating temperature ranges may vary, such as performance pads not braking efficiently when cold or standard pads fading under hard driving. In cars that suffer from excessive brake fade, the problem can be minimized, by installing better quality and more aggressive brake pads. Turbocharger A turbocharger, or turbo, is a gas compressor that is used for forced-induction of an internal combustion engine. A form of supercharger, the purpose of a turbocharger is to increase the density of air entering the engine to create more power. However, a turbocharger has the compressor powered by a turbine, driven by the engine's own exhaust gases, rather than direct mechanical drive as with many other superchargers. The turbocharger's small size and low weight have production and marketing advantage to vehicle manufacturers. By providing naturally-aspirated and turbocharged versions of one engine, the manufacturer can offer two different power outputs with only a fraction of the development and production costs of designing and installing a different engine. Usually increased piston cooling is provided by spraying more lubrication oil on the bottom of the piston. The compact nature of a turbocharger means that bodywork and engine compartment layout changes to accommodate the more powerful engine are not needed. Parts common to the two versions of the same engine reduces production and servicing costs. Today, turbochargers are most commonly used on petrol engines in high-performance cars and diesel engines in transportation and other industrial equipment. Small cars in particular benefit from turbochargers, as there is often little room to fit a large engine. Volvo, Saab, Audi, Volkswagen and Subaru have produced turbocharged cars for many years. Wing Mirror A wing mirror (also known as a door mirror, side mirror or side-view mirror), is a mirror found on the exterior of motor vehicles for the purposes of helping the driver see areas behind and to the sides of the vehicle, outside of the driver's peripheral vision (in the 'blind spot'). Although almost all modern cars mount their side mirrors on the doors, normally at the "A" pillar, rather than the wings, the term wing mirror is still frequently used. Car manufacturers sometimes incorporate the side indicator signals on the car mirrors. This is due to the higher visibility to oncoming vehicles and pedestrians, who would see the indicator signals at a higher height when turning. Car Parts Warehouse stocks door mirrors, and also stocks mirror covers and mirror glass. Car Lights A headlamp is a car light, usually attached to the front of a vehicle such as a car, with the purpose of illuminating the road ahead during periods of low visibility, such as darkness or precipitation. Headlamp performance has steadily improved throughout the automobile age, spurred by the great disparity between daytime and nighttime traffic fatalities. While it is common for the term headlight to be used interchangeably in informal discussion, headlamp is the technically correct term for the device itself, while headlight properly refers to the beam of light produced and distributed by the device. A headlamp can also be mounted on a bicycle (with a battery or small electrical generator), and most other vehicles from airplanes to trains tend to have headlamps of their own. Indicator lights formally called directional indicators or directional signals, and informally known as "directionals", "blinkers" or "flashers" are signal lights mounted near the left and right front and rear corners of a vehicle, and sometimes on the sides, used to indicate to other drivers that the operator intends a lateral change of position (turn or lane change). Electric indicator lights were devised as early as 1907. The modern indicator light was first generally offered by major auto-manufacturers in 1939. Today, indicator lights are required on all vehicles that are driven on public roads in most countries. As with all vehicle lighting and signaling devices, indicator lights must comply with technical standards that stipulate minimum and maximum permissible intensity levels, minimum horizontal and vertical angles of visibility, and minimum illuminated surface area. This is to ensure that indicator lights are visible at all relevant angles, do not dazzle those who view them, and are suitably conspicuous in conditions ranging from full darkness to full direct sunlight. Front fog lamps provide a wide, bar-shaped beam of light with a sharp cut-off at the top, and are generally aimed and mounted low. Front fog lamps may be either white or selective yellow. Front fog lamps are intended for use at low speed to increase the illumination directed towards the road surface and verges in conditions of poor visibility due to rain, fog, dust or snow. As such, front fog lamps are often most effectively used in place of dipped-beam headlamps, reducing the glare back from fog or falling snow, although the legality varies by jurisdiction of using front fog lamps without low beam headlamps. Use of the front fog lamps when visibility is not seriously reduced is often prohibited (for example in the United Kingdom), as they can cause increased glare to other drivers, particularly in wet pavement conditions, as well as harming the driver's own vision due to excessive foreground illumination. The respective purposes of front fog lamps and driving lamps are often confused, due in part to the misconception that front fog lamps are necessarily selective yellow, while any auxiliary lamp that makes white light is a driving lamp. In most countries, weather conditions rarely necessitate the use of fog lamps, and there is no legal requirement for them, so their primary purpose is frequently cosmetic. Front fog lamps are often available as optional extras or only on higher trim levels of many cars. Car Radiators A car's engine has numerous moving parts, and where there is movement there is friction. Friction creates heat. Motor oil is pumped throughout the engine block to provide some lubrication, but it isn't enough to overcome all of this excess heat energy. As a result, parts of the engine become boiling hot as part of normal operations. This is where the radiator system comes into play. The engine block must be kept relatively cool to avoid serious problems like overheating and seizure. If the pistons cannot slide freely in their cylinders due to excessive friction, they will eventually snap and cause total engine failure. To prevent this from happening, a mixture of water and anti-freeze is pumped through chambers in the engine block to absorb the excess heat and draw it away from vital areas. When this superheated engine coolant exits the engine block, it returns to the radiator through a large rubber hose. A car's radiator is designed to maximize surface area through a significant number of internal folds and chambers. As the hot engine coolant moves through these nooks and crannies, excess heat is drawn out through the walls of the radiator. An electrical or belt-driven fan may force cooler outside air through the radiator to accelerate this cooling process. As the car moves, the front of the radiator is also cooled by the outside air coming through the car's grill. By the time the superheated engine coolant has made its way through all of the chambers of the radiator, it should be cool enough to make a return trip through the engine block. However, if the coolant flow should be reduced by a blockage or loss of fluid, the engine block will not be cooled down and the remaining engine coolant will boil over. This is why maintaining a full coolant level is so important, especially during hot weather or long drives. A radiator does not contain any electronic parts of its own -- special sensors register the temperature of the coolant as it exits the radiator. Engine coolant does not have to be especially cool in order to be effective, so there is usually a wide range of temperatures considered to be within normal parameters. If anything goes wrong with the radiator itself, such as a leak or broken hose, the operating temperature of the car can reach a dangerous level within minutes. The engine must be allowed to cool down naturally before the vehicle can be driven safely to a mechanic. Engine Parts An oil sump is also the oil pan of an engine. The oil is used to lubricate the engine's moving parts and it pools in a reservoir, known as an oil sump, at the bottom of the engine. Use of an oil sump requires the engine to be mounted slightly higher to make space for it. Often though, oil in the sump can surge during hard cornering starving the oil pump. The water pump is a simple centrifugal pump driven by a belt connected to the crankshaft of the engine. The water pump circulates water whenever the engine is running. The water pump uses centrifugal force to send water to the outside while it spins, causing water to then be drawn from the center continuously. The inlet to the water pump is located near the center so that water returning from the radiator hits the pump vanes. The water pump vanes fling the water to the outside of the pump, where it can enter the engine. The fluid leaving the water pump flows first through the engine block and cylinder head, then into the radiator and finally back to the water pump. |
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