Where cheapest to buy parts for my car

colino

Go to your local motor factor and be pleasantly surprised. Even without regular discount (please don't put on new overalls and call the partsman "guv") you will get a better deal than all of the other retail units that have to, by definition, charge full retail prices.
They have infinitely more knowledge of fast moving parts than you will believe and frequently now run promos too.
Every part of business is looking to get income nowadays.

Hammyman

grizzly1911 wrote: »

I use a local motor factors for "top up" oil at same spec but probably half the price.

I use Kwik-Fit. An apparently little known fact, even though it is on great big posters in their receptions, is that Kwik-Fit will top up your oil up to 1 litre for free, regardless of whether you've had an oil change or anything done there or not. Its one of their loss leaders.

In regards to parts, if you're in the trade, have a city and guilds in motor vehicles you can get a Halfords Trade Card. The savings are quite something to behold. For example, Bosch windscreen wipers which were £17.99 cost me half that - less than the local motor factors. I've paid £5 for brake pads from there, a couple of quid for an oil filter. Its a similar discount on their tools as well. You'll get nowt off car stereos and satnavs though

geek84

Hi Folks

Thanks for your replies. I shall try Motor Factors & Halfords, to start off with.

Have any of you kind folks out there got any other suggestions?

Ebe_Scrooge

I've used these people in the past, I've got no complaints :

https://www.buypartsby.co.uk

Their prices are pretty reasonable, though you do have to add on postage ( AFAIR it's a flat rate ). And I found their website good for selecting the right specific part. But as others have said, you local motor factor will almost certainly offer similar prices, with the advantage of no postage and the ease of taking stuff back if you've ordered the wrong part. Probably far cheaper than Halfords, plus you get the benefit of a salesman who actually knows what he's talking about and can advise you.

geek84

Hi

Thanks for your replies.

Excuse me for my ignorance, and this may sound like a very silly question, but is motor factor a name of a place that sells car parts?

Thanks

Weird_Nev

Yes - try somewhere like "unipart".
I popped in for bits to service my BMW - Spark plugs (NGK before anyone harps on about cheap parts) were less than £2 each, air and oil filters were cheap as on ebay. I came away with everyhitng I needed for £25 (not including oil which I got a deal online for)

Also try Eurocarparts or GSF online, both have decent prices if you prefer to shop online, but for common-or-garden Ford bits, your local parts depot is the way forwards IMO. Jsut shop about for oil as you can make big savings.

atrixblue.-MFR-.

if you look in your yellow pages under motor factors it will list a few local shops. motor factors is not a brand name its a generic term for a parts supplier that deals with mostly trade purchases but also the public. halfords is a retailer, where by a motor factors deals with trade mostly but also public sales and only sell car parts and accessories and also deliver to the trade, where halfords dont.

flang

Another vote for Eurocarparts. They are the cheapest by far and have free delivery. Dont forget to use the discount codes!!!
The cheapest place for batteries is Buypartsby.

attila_

camberley autofactors are ok - not just in camberley.

pendulum

I'd go on owners forums and find out from enthusiasts/traders what oil these cars like, don't just bung anything in.

I bought 10 litres (£56.84) for two oil changes, so that works out at £28.42 delivered for 5 Litres of decent oil from Opie Oils. I paid £8.52 for a genuine filter and washer from eBay, so that's £36.94 all in for an oil change with a recommended oil and genuine parts.

The fact I had to do the work myself is an advantage as I know it's been done right and I know I've got the oil I paid for, I've heard stories of chains just bunging anything in.

Same with the spark plugs - some engines just don't like Bosch and they need NGK and so on.