New source of OE parts

[mikeN54]

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

[mikeN54]

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...

[mikeN54]

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

[mikeN54]

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!

[mikeN54]

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!

[mikeN54]

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

[mikeN54]

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

[mikeN54]

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.

[mikeN54]

I noticed that, but German VAT is only 19%. ???

Might be worth a email to check.