Why do so many Car Automotive Parts and Accessories sites look the same

[UK Sentinel]

So over the years I have found when looking for car spare parts, lots of the websites look similar to at least one other website and sometimes this can be frustrating.

This is mainly due to the fact that there seems to be a tendency for automotive parts supplier to have two or three sales/retail outlets (channels), some of which are online or via Ebay and other market places etc.

e.g. Euro Car Parts which has the URL eurocarparts.com also has another site (sister site or relationship) named carparts4less.co.uk which only deals with online sales, but still does have a relationship with Euro Car Parts.

Interesting fact about Euro Car Parts is that they are owned by LKQ Corporation whom also own GSF Car Parts 

So I thought as and when I or anybody has time, it would be good to add to this list to see also which others companies are selling car parts via different channels.

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Autodoc.group  (AutoDoc.co.uk) is a large German online car automotive parts supplier and also has a sister site called mister-auto.co.uk

Both IP addresses for AutoDoc.co.uk and Mister-Auto.co.uk ping back to a hosting provider based in California, USA.

Edit: forgot to add buycarparts.co.uk as this also seems to be hosted in California, USA and be related and uses AUTODOC SE for contracting partner reference.

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There is another UK based supplier that I have used several times (Parts in Motion) based in the South West and both their prices and deliveries are excellent.

Parts In motion website https://http://www.partsinmotion.co.uk/ has a UK based IP address and they do use Ebay as a retail channel also.

 

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Found MyMotorWorld.com which is owned and operated by Tetrosyl Express Limited (tetrosylexpress.com)

Tetrosyl Express or Tetrosyl Limited used to be called QH Autoparts Limited before its name change.

 

 

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Also onlineautomotive.co.uk but cannot find if any other sales channels which are used alongside this one.

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