Conti Ford sometimes difficult to get parts if not mistaken but can source from car distributor also...I assume you are looking for standard absorber?.......spare part shops can order and kawtim.
Just give them the part name, model, year...
True, if willing to pay more. Like my wife's Chery SUV, the spare part shop I went to don't have so he source for me. Later I found a shop who is dealing with Chery parts. The price a lot of difference, like oil filter RM29 now I get at RM18 for example....True.
When I order parts, my fav spare-part shop would happy to call other shops if they dont have the part I needed.....Their network is so wide.
Save my time than shopping around on my own.
Far away then no lah! Shop not far from the other, just that they deal in other car makes...yep... I rather pay abit more becoz no time to go visit shop that sells an oil filter 3 ringgit cheap.
Toll and petrol haven't calculated yet.
Maybe I will go to that expensive and far-far away sparepart shop if the sales girl is very very chun....hahahah
Speaking of parts, we consider lucky that parts aren't that hard to find. My angmo boss had a 1967 Chevy, and he had to mail order brake service kit and other parts from US. Nobody keep such kit. At one time he considered about modding the ori brake but decided not to...