Stepper Motor

[simonwedge]

Following frustration with the terrible quality and reliability of the cheap copies (including the Lucas branded ones) of this part I decided to do some digging.

The OE manufacturer of this part is Intermotor. The Intermotor ones can be identified by having black bodies instead of the yellow/gold passivate finish of the cheap ones. They also have 'Mexico' stamped into the body (the country they were manufactured in). Racetech are selling the Intermotor ones at £108 including VAT.

The big discovery I made was that Intermotor's own part number for this item is 14811. A quick search on the Internet brought up this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Intermotor-14811-Idle-Con... . Whilst I haven't bought one from this seller (I found one elsewhere) it certainly looks to be the real McCoy and at £25 it's a fraction of the price of other suppliers.

[phillpot]

Interesting, I didn't know Intermotor were OE suppliers?

[simonwedge]

https://www.racetechdirect.co.uk/car-parts/engine/...

[gavgavgav]

Just ordered the amazon one, it comes in metal body rather than the pictured black body

[ez64]

Thanks for this, I've had problems with my stepper motor and frankly that markup is not funny. Will see how the amazon part holds up.

[LucyP]

So it's the cheap copy after all, and not the genuine one with the black body, and is therefore not a bargain?

[gavgavgav]

LucyP said:

So it's the cheap copy after all, and not the genuine one with the black body, and is therefore not a bargain?

Yes. (if like me you were expecting a black plastic body). It is not a bad price for the metal bodied one I think.

[Zener]

The black bodied OE ones are not plastic however crap monkey metal yes got to say I am struggling with Intermotor (crap) being the OE supplier though as they cant even produce a decent ign module for whatever brand of car and never did , and know of no vehicle manafacturer that ever used Intermotor as an OE supplier of anything

[spitfire4v8]

Do intermotor actually make anything ? i was under the impression (perhaps mistaken) that they just package other makes ?

[Zener]

spitfire4v8 said:

Do intermotor actually make anything ? i was under the impression (perhaps mistaken) that they just package other makes ?

Exactly

[phillpot]

https://www.intermotorparts.com/en/our-story/manuf...

[Zener]

Suprising that I stand correted may be something to do with the take over in late 00's (credit crunch) we in the motor trade avoid their products like the plague and I have done since the late 80's even the dizzy caps and rotor arms were ste