Brake Discs - VW

JB

GSF car parts?

Another place to try is:-

Taking into account postage, your local motor factor may be as cheap as online sources (mine certainly are on most cars - admittedly I've just discovered that one of them also trades as buypartsby.com). Try yell.com and search for "car accessories and spares" in your area.

I've just (indirectly) been caught out by that lot. I recommended someone to them on the basis of their

I always phone up to compare their prices with Davmac just down the road. By and large Davmac tend to be cheaper, but just occasionally Autospares do something significantly cheaper, like the battery, and the Previa alternator last year.

I guess I'm lucky in having such good local suppliers, as my third regular supplier is Fittapart, aka Car Parts Direct, whose knowledge and understanding of classics is unmatched. Not the cheapest, but it's worth paying a bit more for quality service!

Where do you get paint from? I've bought bits and bobs from Autosupplies but they seem very dear, unless prices drop considerably with quantity.

I get my paint from Davmac Refinishing. Paint _is_ expensive. I once had some delivered through a friend's trade account and it cost the same as buying it in the depot.

It perhaps depends on which Fittapart depot you use: I've tried the Derby one three times, and each time the staff have been ill-informed and off-hand, and their prices sky-high. Never again.

I'll have to see what they want for some then. I know paint is dear, but others reckon Autosupplies is dearer than others.

Is that like for like? Not all paint is the same quality - even if of the same type.

TBH, I couldn't be 100% sure. The bloke who told me is an engineer rather than a car painter, and the most cosmetically important painting will be on landys which get a pretty hard life... I know the stuff Autosupplies flog is Spies Hecker.

Ah, well I live just two miles from the Mansfield branch which is staffed by the incomparable Martin Mosley. He's the guy to speak to. Mark is fairly good too, and more usually found at Derby.