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I must confess that I have an addiction. I have a weakness for after market parts.  It doesn’t matter if I’m looking at exhaust kits, car body kits, running lights, or turbo boosters for the engine. I love it all. I don’t know where my obsession started, but it has been with me for as long as I can remember. When I was in shop in high school, for example, I would stay after class just to look at all of the car parts and accessories. It didn’t matter if they were old and tarnished. It didn’t matter if they were straight from the junkyard. Every car part and accessory seemed to glow to me as if it was made of the finest chrome. They were really beautiful.

You would think that I would decide to become a mechanic growing up, but things did not turn out that way. You see, working with cars has always been a labor of love for me. I have always loved to go out and find new car parts and accessories to customize my vehicle. It doesn’t matter what I am driving, and it doesn’t even matter if it needs work done on it. Of course, if there is work that needs to be done I will buy the car parts and accessories that I need for that job. I have rebuilt engines, fixed suspensions, fixed transmission repair sylvania – almost anything that you can imagine.

My favorite thing to do, however, is to customize my car. It doesn’t really matter what kind of customization I am doing. I am in it more for the thrill of building something than for the actual results. I have put in car lift kits, I have low rided cars, I have added hydraulics, and I have taken hydraulics away. I have made cars into racers, and I have made cars into cruisers. I have done everything with after market car parts and accessories that you can do. In short, I am completely hooked.

It has gotten so bad that my wife often takes my wallet away before I go into the automotive supply store. She is worried that I will come home with a bunch of car parts and accessories that I don’t need. I don’t blame her. In fact, I am kind of grateful to her for doing it. I have enough car parts and accessories sitting in the garage to last me for several years, and I probably won’t be able to use all of them in my lifetime.

I used to think that you bought a car, took care of it, and that was it. My friends were not big car guys except for the neighborhood Toledo auto repair shop at Segur’s, and it would not have even occurred to me to try to customize my automobile. I just didn’t see the need. It ran well most of the time, and when it didn’t I could just take it into the mechanic. I knew that he would sometimes use after market car parts to save me some money, but I did not know that you can customize a car to your heart’s content. I always thought that what you see was what you got.

It turns out that I was mistaken. You can use after market car parts to do all kinds of interesting customizations to your automobile. There are car body kits that allow you to put a completely new body on your car. There are customizable lights, spoilers, rims, wheels – you name it. After market car parts can even help you turn your car into a racing machine. It always amazes me how extreme you can make your car without stopping it from being street legal. There really are after market auto parts that will let you change your economy car into a racing machine. You can even do it to compact cars!

Of course, I did not dive into after market car parts all at once. I started with a few small modifications. I added some neat looking interior lights. I put on some bigger wheels, and exchanged the rims for chrome ones. Then, I added a new spoiler. The after market car parts were sort of expensive, but much cheaper than buying ones made by the factory. Many different companies offer after market car parts, and if you look around, it is quite possible to get a great deal. I know. After only spending a thousand dollars, my car was out of this world. It looked great!

If you are in the market for after market car parts, you would probably do well not to start at your dealership. You may want to even use the neighborshippd Toledo auto repair shop that I did.  Although dealerships and auto mechanics can offer you after market car parts, all of them have their favorite companies. You can probably find a better deal if you look yourself. You can look at the catalogs that offer a wide variety of after market car parts, or use the Internet. If you are persistent, you will find the after market car part that suits your needs. I know I did.