Bmw dealer - parts

[Ian Geary]

Morning

I'm not sure people's experience of parts departments- inhabe tended to buy on line since 2008 time

But I needed a pair of alu starter bolts today and amazon could offer me a pair of chinesium ones next day (and i have had similar ones twist and snap under virtually no torque) for a tenner or i could get them from Lithuania or Germany in a week or so for £20 ish.

Phoned Vines Redhill, they can have them in by mid day and under £9

I am pretty pleased by that and I think i will be trying them more often in future. Which I'm sure they'll love, because obviously anyone crawling around under their 16 yo bmw is a prime candidate to drop £70k on their latest electrical box.

(There is a bmw garage selling partd on Ebay but delivery doubled the price for small stuff like this.)

[E-bmw]

I have used Cotswold BMW before online, found them to be pretty good.

[InitialDave]

I've used Sytner Stevenage online, found them to be good.

[danb79]

Cotswolds BMW, Douglas Park BMW & BMW directly via eBay are superb and can have decent discounts/offers on at times

Cotswolds have been faultless and always done well by me

[horaldo72]

E-bmw said:

I have used Cotswold BMW before online, found them to be pretty good.

+1. Have always been the cheapest for me and service is spot on. And I’m nowhere near them.

[VeeTenM]

Cotswold BMW are on plenty of BMW forums so get some discounts.

[Jamescrs]

I’ve ordered numerous parts from Park Lane BMW through their eBay store and always had a good service

[Mr Squarekins]

+1 on this. In the past I've received such excellent service from the parts dept at what was Rydale Wolves (very technical and unusual request when retrofiting nav to a z4 and they really went the extra mile) that I wrote to the dealer principle to name and thank the excellent person involved.