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  • KiliKili Posts: 1,104
    edited August 2022
    "Prices are all for manufacturer parts, not 3rd party."

    All manufacturer service items are "3rd party". No car manufacture makes the service parts anymore these are sourced and rebranded literally from the same producers who sells them at a third of the price aftermarket.

    The discs and pads used on my car were made by Pagid who make parts for all the leading manufacturers.  https://www.eurocarparts.com/pagid

    or you can choose from any of the multitude of parts suppliers to the manufactures from this list. https://www.eurocarparts.com/brands or just pay the dealer mark-up for the same product.

    And of course, as you say if you cant do the work yourself its going to be more expensive.

    'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.

    George Bernard Shaw'

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    My hope is that all car parts must be made to a standard considered " fit for purpose" 
    irrespective of the name on the box ?
    Devon.
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    You would have thought that import/export controls should see to that eh? But do you recall the hoo-haa (?) a while back over dental equipment being sold over here? Drills that came to pieces and the like..
    I would guess that it's simply not possible to spot check every import batch and check its compliance to our standard regulations.

    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    steveTu said:
    You would have thought that import/export controls should see to that eh? But do you recall the hoo-haa (?) a while back over dental equipment being sold over here? Drills that came to pieces and the like..
    I would guess that it's simply not possible to spot check every import batch and check its compliance to our standard regulations.

    Surely that applies to "genuine " and " copy " alike? 
    Devon.
  • Pauline 7Pauline 7 Posts: 2,246
    Kili said:
    "Prices are all for manufacturer parts, not 3rd party."

    All manufacturer service items are "3rd party". No car manufacture makes the service parts anymore these are sourced and rebranded literally from the same producers who sells them at a third of the price aftermarket.




    I work where they make filters for vehicles,  mostly lorries, but also cars, and I can assure you that all brands are the same inside. Just different colour and branding.
    West Yorkshire
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    Hostafan1 said:
    steveTu said:
    You would have thought that import/export controls should see to that eh? But do you recall the hoo-haa (?) a while back over dental equipment being sold over here? Drills that came to pieces and the like..
    I would guess that it's simply not possible to spot check every import batch and check its compliance to our standard regulations.

    Surely that applies to "genuine " and " copy " alike? 

    I would have thought it applies to all imports/exports given how many recalls you get from manufacturers due to dodgy parts not performing to spec.
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    What … like only importing stuff conforming to strict standards agreed by a group of countries all working together? What a good idea that would be 🤔 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    What … like only importing stuff conforming to strict standards agreed by a group of countries all working together? What a good idea that would be 🤔 
    and maybe they could all get together so stuff didn't have to be checked going between those countries, and if they could agree to let people from those countries travel without endless checks and red tape. What a good idea THAT would be, rather than massive queues for freight traffic at ferry ports
    Devon.
  • Bee witchedBee witched Posts: 1,295
    This story on the beeb news website has made me more than curmudgeonly ..

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62539485

    Just because the public can't heed the warnings to view the walrus from afar it would seem that the only solution was to kill it.

    Speechless ... just speechless.

    Bee x
    Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders  

    A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62539385

    You'd think god would have intervened before it got this bad?
    Devon.
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