Tuesday 6th April 2004

Scooby Parts Cheaper

Get down the garage now - 50% off!

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Subaru is slashing parts prices by up to 56 per cent in a bid to reduce owners’ maintenance bills, increase the use of genuine components and to boost business.

This permanent initiative involves 200 individual part numbers and affects most models.

It means that not only will ‘whole-life’ running costs take a tumble but insurance premiums could also fall due to lower accident repair bills.

Items covered include timing-belts, oil, air and fuel filters, water pumps, brake pads and discs and body parts such as wings, bonnets and bumpers.

Typical examples include a timing-belt for a 1992-98 naturally-aspirated Impreza 2.0 litre reduced from £77.47 to £35.85 – a cut of 54 per cent – and an oil filter for an Impreza, Legacy or Forester 2.0 litre reduced by 56 per cent to £4.50.

Brake pads for a 1997-8 Impreza 2.0GL will now cost £48.53 instead of £71.52 while a rear bumper cover for a 1999-2003 Legacy estate will retail for £152.28 – a 43 per cent reduction (all prices are excluding VAT and fitting).

In order to publicise the initiative, Subaru is launching a trade awareness campaign targeting independent repairers, all makes franchise dealers and fast-fit-type centres.

Subaru Parts Manager, Matthew Davies, said: "We aim to mail more than 10,000 price and information sheets as we are determined to expand the use of genuine Subaru parts .

[milo]

Great, I can stop whittling my new water pump from bulsa, and cam belt from tweed rope.

[dodge]

Thank feck for that - I might be able to afford some petrol too, now..

[DJFish]

Wish I'd known that last week, just ordered £250 worth of brakes!

[scoobybloke]

Well something didn't work, as I've just been landed with a £700 bill for 4 brake discs and 4 sets of brake pads!

Chris

[Andy Zarse]

The cost of genuine Soob parts has been an utter disgrace in the past. That they can reduce them by this amount shows how much the bleeders have been robbing us in the past.

Now I can afford a new windscreen wiper and some brake pads.

[mybrainhurts]

Brake pads for a 1997-8 Impreza 2.0GL will now cost £48.53 instead of £71.52

So that's cheap then, is it?

[RolandM]

My boss runs one and does not find them too expensive when he has it main dealer serviced at the friendly local garage (says the man who drives all the way to Blackpool to service his own car) anyway you bunch of winging gits, do you really expect to get arguably one of the best, most usable, rally developed perfomance cars and still service it for the same costs as a Ford Ka

[Mr Whippy]

Yikes, they know how to charge on basic consumables!
No wonder people have gone elsewhere for parts...

Weird how people think consumables on fast cars should cost a bomb. An evo 7 GSR oil filter is almost 20 quid at mitsu, the same exact filter fits a toyota corolla apparently, and cost 4 quid odd for that car!

Hmmmmmm, UK buyers just getting ripped off by expensive main dealers I think!

Dave