Save Money At Advance Auto Parts
Never Pay Retail On Parts For Your Car!
I wanted to share this tip because it has really saved me a lot of money over the years. Even though you can regularly save money at most of the major autoparts brands. I have found that Advance Auto Parts offers the greatest discounts for the least amount of effort.
How Much Savings?
I have never really Shopped at Advance Auto Parts and paid full price. It has become so easy to just save a significant amount of money here.
Personally I can’t recall a time that I couldn’t find a discount here. The discounts range from 15% to 40%+. And here we are going to show you how to make sure you never pay full price for parts on your car.
How?
This first part is just learning how to use AdvanceAutoParts.com, You can skip ahead to the Second part to learn how to get the discounts
Truthfully I find getting discounts at Advance Auto Parts easier and faster than most auto parts stores. Here Im going to go over how to get them.
First – Learn Their Website!
Over the years I have found Advance Auto Parts has the best and easiest website to use. Both for actually finding what I need and just the ease at which I can get discounts. I would recommend setting up a free account online. This way it becomes so easy to make purchases and find out which stores have your items in stock.
Their Loyalty Program!
All the major Auto Part Brands have their version of loyalty programs and truthfully they are pretty similar. But recently Advance Auto Parts has revamped their program to include all purchases. It use to be that your purchase would have to reach certain thresholds to earn the most. But, when you sign up for their free account you will also begin to earn rewards dollars that are extremely easy to use. They will usually show up at check out.
How To Find What You Need!
There are a few ways to find the parts that you need. Here we will cover two of them.
First – Do it Yourself
First – When you sign into your free account on AdvanceAutoParts.com, you will be able to enter your vehicle or vehicles (you add and remove as many as your want). After entering your vehicle information you simply search the part you’re looking for. Whether it be a simple “wiper blade” or a new “alternator”, you can just type it in the search box. You will then be given a list of items, and it will actually give you live inventor availability. Even though I have had rare instances of this being incorrect, you will receive an email notifications.
This is the best part. For those times you need your parts right away for you or your customer. #1 You can see who has the part you need in stock. And, second when you place an order you can usually pick up within minutes. The store usually gets your order with in 10 minutes or so.
Second – Calling In
Over the years I have found finding the parts yourself much easier now that I have done it so much. But, Let’s say you’re looking for a part you have no clue how to find on their site. This can be for a few reasons, you may not know what the item you are looking for is called or you just need a bit of assistance looking for it.
All I do when I need a bit of help is I call my local Advance Auto Parts and ask for the part that I am looking for. Once we find the part all I ask is for the part number, I then just put this number in the search box on AdvanceAutoParts.com. This actually helps in more than one way. First you can see if this is the part you are looking for, there’s usually good quality pictures online that you can match to the item you have. Second by having the part number you can easily just purchase the item on their site and get all the discounts.
Now Let’s Get To The Money Saving Part!
Now that you have your free AdvanceAutoParts.com account and have the part that you are wanting to buy (this works over and over again). Lets go over a few super easy steps to get the discounts of as much as 40% on almost any item.
Step One –
This is really the only bummer, but really minimal inconvenience. You have to purchase the part online for in store pickup or delivery. Just to be clear of how little inconvenience this is. I have purchased online while being in the store. The store usually receives your order with in 10 minutes, but know that it can take up to 30 minutes ( I have only had to wait about 20 minutes probably only once over the last few years).
Step Two (15% to 25%)
Now that you know that you have to make the purchase online (really easy on your phone), you just have to get the discount code. To get this all you have to do is go to their website. At the top you will usually have a discount code there that shows 15-20% and most of the time you will get a popup on their website that asks if you want to “activate” a 25% discount. Here you can simply put your email and the discount code at the top will turn to 25% and give you 6 digit code. Just by simply going to their website and paying online vs in store, you just saved 25%. This isn’t bad at all. BUT WAIT, THER’S MORE!!
Step Three (+ 5% to 10%)
Now if you’re like me and you try to save as much as you can, let’s take this even further and save even more! Hopefully you have heard of this company before because you can really save money with almost no extra effort at all. And, the best part of them is, this company works with tons of other stores and brands.
This company use to go by the name of Ebates and now has changed their name to Rakuten. To simply get this extra discount all you do is make an account with them. Every 3 months Rakuten will mail you a check with all the money you have saved with them. It’s pretty cool when you get a check for almost no effort. After starting your free account all you have to do is simply use their app or website to make the purchases.
The App
I use my phone for just about everything, and their app is super easy to use. After setting up free account (On the App or Online) All you have to do is down load the app from the Apple or Google Play store and login.
Even though Rakuten works for tons of other store that you will find super easy, just search AdvanceAutoParts and you will see a “ShopNow” button. Here you will be taken to the AdvanceAutoParts.com website in the app. All you do is just shop like normal. The first thing I do is login to my Advance Auto Parts account. This will load all my shopping cart items and vehicles. And really all you have to do is make the purchase. Rakuten will then track the purchase, usually within a few hours you will receive your credit of 5-10%. Seriously all you do is make the purchase and Rakuten will mail you a check of all the money you have saved up during the current 3 month period.
The WebSite
To Save the same money on there website just log into your Rakuten account and search Advance Auto Parts and Click the “Shop Now” button. And, just like the app. Rakuten will track the order with Advance Auto Parts and ensure you get 5% to 10% of your order as a check.
Step Four (+10%and up)
You know we have to make sure that we save every penny we can. This one is just making sure you don’t forget to use the saved up rewards. The Advance Auto Parts Loyalty Program will issue you 5$ certificates for every $50 you spend this works out to 10% on all your purchases. But just be sure not to let them expire!
Step Five (TIP! Maximize Your Savings!)
When using the 15%-25% off discount codes online. Remember that it has a $50 max savings per purchase. On large purchases you can save much more by making several smaller purchases.
Lets See How Much I Can Save On My Brakes For My Truck!
For our Example we are going to go over the savings of purchasing the brakes and rotors for my 2016 F-150. We won’t even include the FREE $10 that Rakuten gives you if your use my Referral Link. (It’s really just a free $10 after making your first purchase of $25+ theres nothing to lose seriously) Rakuten currently has a promo code you can reuse as many times as you want for 25% off most items on AdvanceAutoParts.com. So here we go!
Discounts I am using
- 25% off promo code
- Rakuten has this code till August By using my link you get this code and $10
- 5% Cash Back on Rakuten
- For Advance Auto Parts it has always been at least 5% and will sometimes be 10%
- Heres My Link
- 10% Speed Perks Rewards Program
- This can be increased as you make more purchases
- 1.5% Cash Back
- I have tried several cards and I find my Capital One Quick Silver my favorite
Quick Over View of Totals
Pre Discount Total $597.00
Total Discounts & Rewards $221.57
Thats 37.1% Savings!