Tymothy Mough of Rick Signs & Repairs in a Van Ladder bucket truck repairing the O’Reilly Auto Parts illuminated pole sign in Chicago

O'Reilly Auto Parts

A father-son Chicago crew keeping a national auto parts chain's storefront signs, pylons, and parking lots lit, consistent, and on-brand across multiple stores in the Chicago area.

Industry

Automotive Retail

Location

Chicago Metro Area

Engagement

Ongoing — Multi-Location

Sign Types

O'Reilly Auto Parts® is a registered trademark of O'Reilly Automotive Stores, Inc. Rick Signs & Repairs is an independent sign repair and lighting service provider and is not affiliated with or endorsed by O'Reilly Auto Parts. See our Terms of Service for our full trademark policy.

O'Reilly Auto Parts logo with a green shamrock inside the O and bold green and black text.
Rick Signs Van Ladder bucket truck extended high to reach an illuminated commercial sign in Chicago
Close-up of the O’Reilly Auto Parts illuminated cabinet pole sign with Rick Signs bucket truck servicing it in Chicago
Rick Signs Van Ladder bucket truck and service van at sunset beside an O’Reilly Auto Parts pole sign in Chicago
Rick Signs bucket truck servicing the illuminated O’Reilly Auto Parts storefront sign in Chicago
Multi-Location Sign Service

A National Chain. A Local Crew. Every Store Looks Like the New One.

O'Reilly Auto Parts runs hundreds of stores under a tight brand standard — green channel letters, white cabinet pylons, fully lit lots. When a letter drops out, a pylon goes half-dark, or a parking lot pole burns out, the fix has to match what's at every other O'Reilly down the road. We've been the Chicago-area crew handling that work store by store — bucket truck on-site, parts on hand, and clean documentation back to the property manager or facilities team dispatching the call.

Features

What We Do.

Component-level fixes that keep every O'Reilly storefront and lot looking like the day it opened.

Feature 1

Channel Letter Relamp & Module Swap

When green letters start dimming or dropping out, individual LED modules are usually past life. We swap modules across the panel, rebalance brightness and color temperature, and reseal so the fixed letters don't read brighter or cooler than the ones beside them.

Rick Signs bucket truck and scaffolding setup at an O’Reilly Auto Parts storefront sign installation in Chicago
Close-up of the red O’Reilly Auto Parts cabinet sign with Rick Signs bucket truck in frame — Chicago sign repair
Feature 2

Pylon Cabinet & Faceplate Service

Cracked, faded, or yellowed pylon faces let in water and dull the brand color. We replace the face, repair the cabinet wiring, swap drivers as needed, and reseal, the pylon reads sharp from the road again without a full rebuild.

Feature 3

Parking Lot & Pole-Light Repair

Dark corners of a parking lot are a safety issue and a company issue. We service pole lights, parking lot heads, and building floodlights with the bucket truck, fixtures, drivers, photocells, and wiring, so the entire site is lit consistently after dark.

Parking lot pole light illuminated at dusk at an O'Reilly Auto Parts store — Rick Signs exterior commercial lighting and pole light service in Chicago

The Result.

Every O'Reilly location we service ends up the same way — letters fully lit, pylon reading clean from the street, parking lot covered corner to corner. The facilities and property teams know they can dispatch through their platform, hear back from us same-day, and have the bucket truck on the schedule that week.

Rick Signs Van Ladder bucket truck approaching a tall O’Reilly Auto Parts pole sign with FREE BATTERY TESTING signage in Chicago
Close-up of the illuminated O’Reilly Auto Parts cabinet sign mounted on a high pole — Rick Signs repair Chicago
Rick Signs bucket truck servicing the illuminated O’Reilly Auto Parts storefront sign in Chicago

Services We Used On This Project.

Have a multi-location retail brand or storefront with similar signage?

Rick Signs bucket truck servicing the illuminated O’Reilly Auto Parts storefront sign in Chicago

Channel Letter Sign Repair

Storefront letters lit back to life. Transformers, LED modules, and faceplates fixed on site.

Rick Signs technician holding LED sign module — full sign repair and commercial lighting services in Chicago

LED Retrofits & Conversions

Old fluorescent or neon converted to LED — lower power bills, far less maintenance across every store.

Rick Signs technician replacing a fluorescent tube fixture in an interior commercial lighting repair job in Chicago

Exterior Commercial Lighting

Parking lot lights, pole lights, floodlights, and building exteriors.

Got A Multi-Location Retailer

With Signs Going Dark?

We service nationally-branded retail sites across the Chicagoland area. One crew, consistent work, clean documentation back to your facilities platform.