Autodoc - taking the ****?

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morning chaps

just a little rant/enquiry to those of you who use autodoc for bits. I got sick of ECP and the like with their daft "offers". Started using Autodoc last year

...but it seems they've joined the wacky price brigade. I've been building a basket of mostly hard to get bits for a couple of cars, but the prices are different every time I look. Perhaps it's always been like this and I just never noticed. I normally just order the parts and get it done, but I've been adding bits to the basket for a week or so...for example

Brake discs for the daily

• added to basket £25 each
• £30 at the weekend
• now £36??

Is there anywhere left that we can get parts from with stable pricing? Where did this business model come from? Anyone else fed up of it?

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interesting replies cheers, I have ordered bits from eBay before with half decent results. One recently annoyed me a bit though, car parts in motion they are called.

400k ebay feedback, 2 million active listings...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/carpartsinmotion/m.html...

I ordered some parts from there with the next day delivery option ticked. Needed them for a trackday 2 days later, they took 3 days to arrive (Tues > Friday).

Definitely just a reseller who orders the stock from elsewhere, but I have got many parts from there before with the eBay 10/15/20% off deals.

Glad to see a few of you are team FU autodoc

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Well I ended up ordering the most of it off eBay, a few bits from CP4L. All sensible prices (although as luck would have it, I can't find the discs for £25 anymore - I should have jumped on that, Bosch discs for £25ea!)

I think I will still use Autodoc due to some parts seemingly only being available from there, but once you've got a few things in your basket the final price can vary so much from day to day. Not fun at all!

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...and the winner is

Demon Tweeks eBay - gearbox oil ordered 15:07, arrived 11:30 next day.

To be fair that was something that Autodoc don't even stock, but will definitely be going to eBay first from now on.

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Court_S said:

Carparts4less have been good and ironically the stuff I’ve ordered has been dropped off in an ECP van.

This just happened too! I'm sure I've ordered from CP4L before and it's come via a courier, but I guess they aren't bothered about hiding the fact they are the same now.

I did actually use a discount code on CP4L, hopefully they don't go fully the same way, but it was cheap enough