[433lemans]

https://www.amesperf.com/

[70geeteeohh]

Originally Posted by 433lemans

https://www.amesperf.com/

Boy I hope this is better than the old one. I hated looking/ordering parts from it.

[BILL BOWMAN1]

I’m a dinosaur. I look at the paper catalog, call and talk to human.

[tekheavy]

I like the fact you can now see your previous orders.

[67drake]

Cool! I’ve actually been buying quite a bit lately, and Ames site was frustrating to deal with.

[nytrainer]

Originally Posted by tekheavy

I like the fact you can now see your previous orders.

Been buying items since 2010 but no record of any purchases….would have been nice

[pontiacstogo]

Much easier to use and the order history function is a nice addition. Thanks Ames!

[GT182]

I too ordered a new catalog to look thru. If I need any parts, I call them.... unless they're trying to cut back on us calling with this new site.

I use other vendors for parts too. The only one I stay away from and never use is Year One. Their prices were out of site before Covid. I can only imagine how much more "thru the roof" they are now.

[dataway]

Sweet, been waiting for this.

[TAKerry]

Sorry, I guess Im an idiot. I dont see any improvement other than a fancy home page. When I filled out the info with my car and year it still needs a part no. to open up. I didnt see a button anywhere to open the catalog and search for parts!! When clicking the pretty picture of the catalog for my car (firebird) it takes you to an order for the cat. If there is somewhere on there to open up and search please let me know, otherwise its not very intuitive.

I love Ames, and seems like I am placing orders once a week as of late. Always have great service and great parts. They are my go to guy. BUT the website has always been the stone ages compared to other car part companies. One needs to have the catalog in front of them to successfully order from the website and sometimes a phone call needs to be made. Three steps all at the same time to order a part??

[vertigto]

Originally Posted by TAKerry

Sorry, I guess Im an idiot. I dont see any improvement other than a fancy home page. When I filled out the info with my car and year it still needs a part no. to open up. I didnt see a button anywhere to open the catalog and search for parts!! When clicking the pretty picture of the catalog for my car (firebird) it takes you to an order for the cat. If there is somewhere on there to open up and search please let me know, otherwise its not very intuitive.

I love Ames, and seems like I am placing orders once a week as of late. Always have great service and great parts. They are my go to guy. BUT the website has always been the stone ages compared to other car part companies. One needs to have the catalog in front of them to successfully order from the website and sometimes a phone call needs to be made. Three steps all at the same time to order a part??

Agreed...the search functionality needs to be improved. I would suggest also being able to search for all parts for a given model/year and possible category (like suspension components, drivetrain, interior vs. exterior, etc). You may not know the exact terminology for some parts to search easily. In this respect, I believe OPG has a much better website. It has to be easy to use/order.

[ScumOne]

I wasn't able to find one item. I even tried hats/shirts and it came up with nothing for a 69 Firebird.

[Skidmark]

I just tried it out. I did what others had suggested. Picked model, picked year, and entered a 1 in the part number box. I had access to all parts for my car. I signed in with an Android. I still prefer a hard copy for browsing though.

[sportylemans]

No love for the lemans in model selection.

[hobbygto65]

I tried downloading a catalog and I got a Vortex optics catalog. ��

[misterp266]

Decided to check it out.

If you select which catalog your car fits in and also select the year, you can just type all in the part number box and every part available for your car will come up. From there you can select a sub section if you want. Hope that helps. Not sure if that worked on the old site or not.

[TAKerry]

Originally Posted by misterp266

Decided to check it out.

If you select which catalog your car fits in and also select the year, you can just type all in the part number box and every part available for your car will come up. From there you can select a sub section if you want. Hope that helps. Not sure if that worked on the old site or not.

Not much different than before. I still stand by its too difficult to navigate. Having a physical catalog in front of you is still needed.

Although I get 90% of my stuff from Ames, the websites of other suppliers are far superior at this point. I was looking for chevelle stuff last night, you simply hit the tab for the model year, it opens up to a list of sub categories, ie. drivetrain, body, inter. etc. You then hit on one of those ie. body and a list of all available sheet metal parts comes up with descriptions, price, part no. etc. click the button to put in the cart. Basically the same for every website I have ever ordered from (except Ames).

[Mr_GTO]

Originally Posted by TAKerry

Not much different than before. I still stand by its too difficult to navigate. Having a physical catalog in front of you is still needed.

Although I get 90% of my stuff from Ames, the websites of other suppliers are far superior at this point. I was looking for chevelle stuff last night, you simply hit the tab for the model year, it opens up to a list of sub categories, ie. drivetrain, body, inter. etc. You then hit on one of those ie. body and a list of all available sheet metal parts comes up with descriptions, price, part no. etc. click the button to put in the cart. Basically the same for every website I have ever ordered from (except Ames).

SO I did just what you said. From the home page I hit GTO, 1966, and searched BODY. This is the page that came up.
https://www.amesperf.com/parts/searc...1966&term=Body

Look what's on the left hand side. Should that be on the home page? You bet. It's one extra 5 second step.

[72projectbird]

Ehhhh, not much of an improvement over the old site. Searching for things isn't any easier. It's not difficult, it's just set up a lot differently than most parts sites.

It's easier for me to just call them and pick it up in person, but for those that can't I guess the website is of some improvement?

[Shiny]

I'm optimistic, but clearly the site is not all there yet.

I had to open a new account, and they asked if I was an existing customer. I said yes, but there was no way to associate my customer ID number with this new account. If they get this set up well, it will allow me to look up previous orders which would be great.

Will also be nice to get shipping costs before ordering.

And yes, the vehicle ID selections look like place-holders and I also agree they seemed to have lost love for the LeMans in their pulldowns... I'm sure this will get fixed.