New source of OE parts

New source of OE parts

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mikeN54

Original Poster:

607 posts

180 months

Wednesday 20th July 2016
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All,

I recently stumbled upon these guys http://www.genuineautoparts.com/uk/auto-parts/bmw

They seem to be based in Australia and ship BMW parts from Germany to UK. Their prices are incredible, 30% or so cheaper than BMW even with 10% BMWCC discount.

I've bought quite a few items from them, great service and fast delivery and they take paypal, some at 50% less than dealer prices (performance carbon items)

The MPE exhaust for my M6GC is £2000 cheaper than from BMW! M5/M6 discs and pads less than half dealer prices too.

You can use their search (which doesn't have some accessories) or paste in part numbers directly from realoem

Edited by mikeN54 on Wednesday 20th July 13:10

Dan_M5

615 posts

142 months

Wednesday 20th July 2016
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Used them in the past. Communication is the only bad thing i found. My item was out of stock but wasnt told until i chased.

e60 m5 brakes are far too cheap! £80!

Edited by Dan_M5 on Wednesday 20th July 13:12

mikeN54

Original Poster:

607 posts

180 months

Wednesday 20th July 2016
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They seem Ok now, on both occasions they called me (from Australia in middle of their night time) to tell me the parts I ordered didn't match my VIN.

I knew this as they were mods, but it seemed a great service.

Now I get status emails when parts are ordered / shipped / out for delivery etc...

AW10

4,421 posts

248 months

Wednesday 20th July 2016
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Dan_M5 said:
Used them in the past. Communication is the only bad thing i found. My item was out of stock but wasnt told until i chased.

e60 m5 brakes are far too cheap! £80!
Double check the part numbers they provide for a given part against a site like bmwfans.info. For example, http://www.genuineautoparts.com/ lists 34-11-6-864-906 as the left front brake rotor for an E60 M5 for all of £84.91. That's the first clue it's too good to be true. 2nd clue is that it's listed as shared with virtually every E60 from a 525i on up. The correct part number is 34 11 2 282 805 which they sell for a more reassuringly expensive £235.66. Leebmann24.de sells them for €288.86 or about £241 so it all lines up.

mikeN54

Original Poster:

607 posts

180 months

Thursday 21st July 2016
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I agree, don't use their by-vehicle search, a bite like ECP etc it can be a bit flaky.

Get your exact part numbers from the only really reliable source which is www.realoem.com then paste the part number into www.genuineautoparts.com


NBTBRV8

2,061 posts

207 months

Thursday 21st July 2016
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Are you sure they are that cheap? I just compared a price to Schmiedmann and they were £600 dearer.

http://www.schmiedmann.com/

mikeN54

Original Poster:

607 posts

180 months

Thursday 21st July 2016
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They maybe cheaper, never heard of them though. What part did you check? Must be a big ticket item to save £600!

But their website is so horrifically useless it would put me off, but as it's impossible to find anything i'll never know!


NBTBRV8

2,061 posts

207 months

Thursday 21st July 2016
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mikeN54 said:
They maybe cheaper, never heard of them though. What part did you check? Must be a big ticket item to save £600!

But their website is so horrifically useless it would put me off, but as it's impossible to find anything i'll never know!
I have bought 000s from them. It is fully priced and they are ok to deal with, the only issue I had with them was getting a credit for a wrong part packed in a BMW box. They were holding out for the credit from BMW before they wanted to pass it on to me, but I eventually got it. Overall they are trust worthy and legit and would use them again for sure.

I compared 66316777883.

mikeN54

Original Poster:

607 posts

180 months

Thursday 21st July 2016
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Looks good - it's always good to share round more sources for parts. But that part number is £266 cheaper not £600?

For example, M5 brake discs are £7 cheaper on Schmiedmann than GAP (£314 v £321), which are both massively less than the £510 from BMW, but their shipping (for one disc) is £45 and it keeps going up as you add more weight.

Shipping to UK is fixed £9.99 per order on GAP, even four discs is still £9.99 v £101 on Schmiedmann!


Mr_B

10,480 posts

242 months

Thursday 21st July 2016
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Checked a front brake disc and the prices are cheap. Against what used to be the cheaper route of buying in Germany, their base price is still cheap, but the shipping brought it back up to the same as Leebmann24

From Genuine auto parts it was £88 with an option of only either post of £44 or £202 !
Leebmann24 was £101 and £15 post ( includes discount you can simply email them for and they will apply from then on , 10% in this case )
Schmiedmann was £127 and with there various add on and shipping £170 all in. And yes, there site is awful.
BMW's own Classic Shop only sells pairs of brake discs, but there pricing is the same as Leebmann's base price without the discount. This can still be the better choice depending on what you buy as it becomes free shipping where as Leebmann's goes up and up, so on a set of wheels Leebmann might want 150 Euro shipping which would be free via BMW Classic Shop.

As the name suggests, BMW's Classic Shop only sells classic bits, so no new M5 bits etc.

Edited by Mr_B on Thursday 21st July 12:06

mikeN54

Original Poster:

607 posts

180 months

Thursday 21st July 2016
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That's strange, i've just priced up M5 brake discs on genuineautoparts and the £9.98 standard shipping applied.

£9.98 UPS standard
£52 for UPS next day
£62 for DHL next day

Mr_B

10,480 posts

242 months

Thursday 21st July 2016
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Odd. I just checked again on a single brake disc and got the same result. I changed it to 2 thinking a greater order value ( £176 in this case ) might change things and got only 2 shipping options of £58.90GBP UPS - Standard £278.23GBP UPS - Express Saver for shipping to the UK.

NBTBRV8

2,061 posts

207 months

Thursday 21st July 2016
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mikeN54 said:
Looks good - it's always good to share round more sources for parts. But that part number is £266 cheaper not £600?

For example, M5 brake discs are £7 cheaper on Schmiedmann than GAP (£314 v £321), which are both massively less than the £510 from BMW, but their shipping (for one disc) is £45 and it keeps going up as you add more weight.

Shipping to UK is fixed £9.99 per order on GAP, even four discs is still £9.99 v £101 on Schmiedmann!
This is a cut and paste of the prices I am seeing:

genuineautoparts


DISTANCE SENSOR - BMW (66-31-6-777-883)
List Price: £2,666.81GBP
You Save: £693.37GBP (26% off)
Sale Price: £1,973.44GBP
Item Location - Germany | Ships in 1-4 days
Applicable taxes included (EU)



Schmiedmann:

The product is original

Price excl. VAT: GBP 1,366.37
VAT: (0%) GBP 0.00
Total incl. VAT: GBP 1,366.37

(Remember freight costs are calculated in the shopping cart)

Weight: 0.25 KG
Amount per car:Amount unknown

Add to basket

1
pcs.



mikeN54

Original Poster:

607 posts

180 months

Thursday 21st July 2016
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Same cut and paste from Schmeidmann:


Order total excl. VAT GBP 1,366.37
Total weigth and freight price excl. tax
(DHLZONE2 United Kingdom) 0.250 KG GBP 15.94
Pack & Handling GBP 1.26
Tax of order and freight (25%) GBP 345.89

Total incl. freight GBP 1,729.46



cgauk

166 posts

127 months

Thursday 21st July 2016
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So, the difference is the tax..?

mikeN54

Original Poster:

607 posts

180 months

Friday 22nd July 2016
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You still have to pay UK VAT on internal EU purchases, I think the website has an error if it's saying VAT 0%.

Anyway, Scheidmann does seem a little cheap on that particular item. But more usual things like brake pads are fairly even-stevens bar shipping.

theRossatron

1,028 posts

231 months

Friday 22nd July 2016
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NBTBRV8 said:
Are you sure they are that cheap? I just compared a price to Schmiedmann and they were £600 dearer.

http://www.schmiedmann.com/
They seem to charge VAT at 25%?

mikeN54

Original Poster:

607 posts

180 months

Friday 22nd July 2016
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I noticed that, but German VAT is only 19%. ???

Might be worth a email to check.

AW10

4,421 posts

248 months

Sunday 24th July 2016
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http://www.schmiedmann.com/ is in Denmark, not Germany - hence the VAT rate of 25%

HanksBM

16 posts

127 months

Tuesday 9th August 2016
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If it appears to good to be true it usually isrolleyes
I would advise use of Realoem to get the part number for your vin.
GAP part search is not great, Listed e46 m3 discs as the same part for 330ci and 325ci, e39 M5.... My advice copy and paste from real oem if using, prices appear good thoughreadit