Buying car parts: replacing a brake light

Mr.FragBait

My brake and turn signal light bulbs are burnt out and need replacement. This seems to be a common occurrence for Chevy cavalier 2001s, faulty wiring or sum such. I don't want to go to a mechanic at the moment, and I can replace the bulbs easily. Last time I went to a local car parts store and bought what I needed with their help.

Anyone know of a good on-line store to check against the local places? Google gives a bunch of random sites, ranging from hot-rod sites to used parts places. I already replaced the turn signal with a leftover bulb and I want to replace the brake light, but I don't know which I need to buy. The bulb looks exactly the same as the turn signal light, but I want to make sure. This is the list my manual gives me, which do I need?

Lamps Bulb Number
Back-Up Lamps 912
Front Parking/Turn Signal Lamps 3157
Center High-Mounted Stoplamp
Interior Mounted 1141
Spoiler Mounted 912
Halogen Headlamps, High/Low Beam 9007
Tail/Turn Signal Lamps 3057
Turn Signal Lamps (Rear Sedan) 3057

I assume I need the 3057, but googling generally gives me the 3157 bulb on product sites. Plus the fact the parts store gave me a 3457/3357 bulb for my front turn signal, confusing me more. Although it worked fine in both the front and back turn signals.

tl;dr

I am not car savy and I need to buy a bulb, where do you get your car parts?

b0bd0d

Autozone, advance auto parts, etc all have their stores online. Also walmart has bulbs for cars too. Honestly, I don't think you're going to find any big difference in price. You're best bet is just to go what's in the manual. Sometimes there's a book that gives ya info about what you should be using. All else fails, go to the dealer and get ripped off. You'll get the right part, but they'll charge ya for it. Ford charged me 8 bucks for a bolt one time...

Iroh

b0bd0d wrote: »

Autozone, advance auto parts, etc all have their stores online. Also walmart has bulbs for cars too. Honestly, I don't think you're going to find any big difference in price. You're best bet is just to go what's in the manual. Sometimes there's a book that gives ya info about what you should be using. All else fails, go to the dealer and get ripped off. You'll get the right part, but they'll charge ya for it. Ford charged me 8 bucks for a bolt one time...

Yeah, just hit up the local auto parts store. Whatever money you save by shopping online (if anything) will be made up for by the time you save having the staff help you find what you need.

You don't want to drive around with lights that don't work while waiting for them to ship, either.

DesertBox

Yea bulbs are like $5 - 10 a pair. Getting the light cover off will be the difficult part.