A review of two quality online sources to find the right dodge truck accessory

This article is a review of two online sources of dodge truck accessory items and a highlight of the most interesting features on their website.

STREET BEAT CUSTOMS

Street Beat Customs operates a Yahoo secure store offering a wide variety of automotive items, including dodge truck accessory products. The store structure is pretty straight-forward. From the home page you simply need to type, in the search box, the year, make and model of your vehicle and you will get a listing of all dodge truck accessories offered. The products are shown over several pages, each of them needing to be loaded. The process is a bit tedious but on the other hand you will not get lost into several different pages being loaded one over the other. Besides each item you get an indication of its relevance versus the search criteria and in the item's description all your search words are shown in red. Obviously the search results are ranked in order of relevance.

As a walk through we chose to look at dodge truck accessory items for the 2001 Durango. We felt a little lazy, so we selected the first product listed ! .... a Dodge Durango/Dakota 97-01 GrillCraft sport grille. All relevant information was displayed for us, detailed description, model years fitted by the product, choice of colour and price. For those of you that like to visualize the dodge truck accessory selected you also get a nice photo that can be further enlarged. Down 4 or 5 pages further we selected the Dodge Dakota/Durango 97-01; Cowl Induction Hood and got the same quality features.

PARTS AMERICA

This website has a truck accessories link on the home page. Once you click on the link you get a simple list of general truck accessories categories. Once you select a category you will have to indicate the year, make, model, and engine type (interesting !) of your vehicle, if you have not selected a general category. Once you identify your dodge truck you then get a list of doodge truck accessory products with prices, part numbers, shipping info and a brief product description.

We tought this site is most interesting for their "learn" section. You can register your vehicle to a diagnostic system called Smartfix, you can get a maintenance schedule personalized for your dodge truck, a reliability rating of your vehicle covering the engine, heating & air conditioning, transmission and driveline, steering and suspension, starting and charging power accessories and brakes. This section also includes recall information from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and car care tips (our favourite page). OUF !!

As you can see this website offers more than just dodge truck accessory products. This is more appealing to certain people while others don't like to waste too much time on the web. The choice is yours.