Just interested to know where people get their parts from? Euro seem to be quite cheap but my mate and I had a horrendous customer service experience in their Huddersfield branch, so I've not been back in there since (though I'd use them in another town). My brother always used to use GSF but I've found that the blokes at Andrew Page give excellent service and will often try and get the price down as low as possible - including being willing to price match parts you've found online.

 

What's everyone else's experience?

TPS genuine Skoda/ VW parts.

I use Lloyds Motorspares a.k.a Midnight motors in Wembley but I think they are only London based. However these guys are open till quite late EVERY night which makes it handy as quite often I have a friend who does work on my cars at night so if I need a part/exchange etc I can pop down there. Good customer service...

Depends on what it is, but mostly use the local dealers.

Dealers for some, ECP for others and eBay for "sundries".

 

Have also used GSF in the past.

Bickerton Skoda for most genuine parts http://www.skodaparts.com/

 

Ebay, Euro and GSF for others.

 

Also AVS http://www.vwspares.co.uk/fabia.php

Unless it's using the mail order ebay store (which I get nectar points too) for items like oil I will avoid eurocarparts like the plague... Just recently I've bought a steering rack from them and it didn't come with the steering arms (advertised on site it did) and after fitting it we found out it's a step to right more... I spoke to the rack company who reconditioned it and they've since informed me that the Audi A2 uses the same rack but has this type of step, seems like eurocar parts are selling them both under the same stock code... I now have to reset my steering column to get it right and what did euro say - bob all! some times they really are a waste of space!

 

Sorry for the rant but they've wasted my time a lot recently. For other service parts I tend to find eBay is pretty cheap for filters etc and since the missus fabia uses the same ones I buy a few at a time so p&p isn't a problem.

Tps,euro or dingbro for me and of course on trade

GSF are sponsors of the site, so I'd have to say begin there!

 

I tried parts supply via AP last year. Most of the parts price match were against EuroCar. I've never been a fan of driving the price down to zero margin, it leaves no margin for support or time spent digging. Ok if you're paying fora guy all day anyway, quite another as a sole/small trader.

 

Then as others have said skoda parts etc.

Don't you need an account for tps and to get an account you have to be in the motor trade.

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^ Lots of TPS places will sell to Joe Public, try your local one to see.

 

I tend to find out the part number that I need via www.partscats.info then stick the number in Ebay and usually end up with new-old-stock type genuine stuff at decent prices, or secondhand if it's something that I don't think will age badly.

I've tried my local tps at lightcliffe VW and they don't wanna know at all, makes getting genuine parts same day a nightmare for me. The local skoda to me is a Nissan that also does skoda and doesn't stock barely any skoda parts.

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E-Bay ..Ensure meets spec requirements.