{"id":31446,"date":"2021-10-17T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=31446"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:45:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:45:31","slug":"thoughts-oem-parts-are-a-dark-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20211017\/blogs\/thoughts\/thoughts-oem-parts-are-a-dark-world","title":{"rendered":"[Thoughts] OEM Parts Are a Dark World"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I was searching for a part that isn’t a standard item, and I ended up searching in English.
I kept diving deeper and deeper across borders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thirty minutes pass, then an hour, and time just keeps slipping away… I find myself thinking “maybe I should just give up…” more than once.

Then I hear Coach Anzai saying, “If you give up, the game is over…” <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

OEM parts are impossible to discuss without images. And the part number is crucial too\u2014you have to clear availability, pricing, everything. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Usually they turn up pretty quick, but they’re discontinued more often than not.
In recent years, manufacturers might be phasing out single part numbers in favor of better cross-compatibility. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just when I was about to give up… I found it\u2014a weird site.
To put it simply, it’s a site that does a better job searching overseas parts catalogs <\/a> than the original.
The catalog search is pretty useless on its own, so this was incredibly helpful.

I found the part I needed, and as a bonus I discovered some great sites along the way\u2014all that time spent searching was worth it (*’\u03c9’*)
The information I gathered without giving up will definitely come in handy down the road. Phew, glad that worked out. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was searching for a part that isn’t a standard item, and I ended up searching in English. I kept diving deeper and deeper across borders. Thirty minutes pass, then an hour, and time just keeps slipping away… I find myself thinking “maybe I should just give up…” more than once. Then I hear Coach Anzai saying, “If you give up, the game is over…”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[269],"class_list":["post-31446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}