I was a bit surprised to find that new rear pads for my Saab had to be ordered from the dealer with a 3-day delivery time, with a 15% premium for faster delivery. I would have expected to be able to walk in and buy them off the shelf. Is this common across all makes, or is it simply to do with Saab's situation?
As an aside, it worked in my favour this time! He quoted me a standard price of €105, I asked for express delivery, expecting to pay an additional €11 or so. He went online to locate some in the dealer network, and came back with a set that would be available the next working day at €72!
Last edited by: Mike H on Fri 7 Nov 14 at 10:00
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>> I was a bit surprised to find that new rear pads for my Saab had
>> to be ordered from the dealer with a 3-day delivery time, with a 15% premium
>> for faster delivery. I would have expected to be able to walk in and buy
>> them off the shelf. Is this common across all makes, or is it simply to
>> do with Saab's situation?
With some parts yes I guess it will happen. With pads? shouldn't be an issue, they are a standard type calliper used in gazzilions of cars across the planet.
Last edited by: Zero on Fri 7 Nov 14 at 10:05
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I'd expect standard parts like that to be available off the shelf in UK.
Is the delivery issue an Austrian rather than a Saab thing?
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Just checked Euro Car parts stock. I could walk into any of the three branches nearest to me all have rear pads for your wagon in stock.
Last edited by: Zero on Fri 7 Nov 14 at 10:10
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>> Just checked Euro Car parts stock. I could walk into any of the three branches
>> nearest to me all have rear pads for your wagon in stock.
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I'm a bit picky about brake parts, preferring to use manufacturer-supplied items, in this case Saab, hence sourcing them from the dealer. I'm sure I could have found them elsewhere, but even then perhaps not from stock. We don't tend to have places like Euro Car Parts or GSF, at least not that I've found. We do have a pretty good motor factors place near me but I'm guessing they would have had to order them, perhaps admittedly on next-day delivery.
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>>I'm a bit picky about brake parts, preferring to use manufacturer-supplied items,
Surely Saab weren't making these brake pads, they were just, well getting them bulk from their local supplier???
Do you always fit the same make of tyres as supplied new with the car?
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Tyres don't come in a box with 'Saab' printed all over it.
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>> Do you always fit the same make of tyres as supplied new with the car?
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Of course not, and I trust that's a tongue in cheek comment. I'm afraid that it often takes me weeks of research and angst to decide which ones to buy!
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>> >> Just checked Euro Car parts stock. I could walk into any of the three
>> branches
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>> I'm a bit picky about brake parts, preferring to use manufacturer-supplied items, in this case
>> Saab,
Nope, your manufacturer supplied parts were not SAAB. They were generic GM part numbers in an expensive SAAB box. Even when it was fresh off the line it didn't have a SAAB part, it would have had pads sourced from a variety of places and manufacturers, depending on the time of day or day of the week.
Same ones you can get from your motor factor.
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>> Same ones you can get from your motor factor.
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Probably made by this outfit.
www.tmdfriction.com
I usually use their Pagid brand.
Last edited by: Old Navy on Fri 7 Nov 14 at 11:51
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>> Nope, your manufacturer supplied parts were not SAAB. They were generic GM part numbers in
>> an expensive SAAB box. Even when it was fresh off the line it didn't have
>> a SAAB part, it would have had pads sourced from a variety of places and
>> manufacturers, depending on the time of day or day of the week.
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>> Same ones you can get from your motor factor.
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I'm quite aware of all that Zero. Just a personal preference. Having spent weeks deliberating over which front pads to use (not Saab), I made an informed decision to go with high performance pads from a manufacturer I trust. For various reasons I wanted to keep it simple with the rears.
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>> Nope, your manufacturer supplied parts were not SAAB. They were generic GM part numbers in
>> an expensive SAAB box. Even when it was fresh off the line it didn't have a SAAB part, it would have had pads sourced from a variety of places and manufacturers, depending on the time of day or day of the week.
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>> Same ones you can get from your motor factor.
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First part probably true.
Same as a factors?
Definitely not true.
Back plates not so well machined, and not the vehicle manufacturers specified friction material either.
And that would be for the 'better' pads from the factors
Really cheap ones? - you get what you pay for!
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>> I'd expect standard parts like that to be available off the shelf in UK.
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>> Is the delivery issue an Austrian rather than a Saab thing?
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No idea. The dealer is huge, being one of these super duper modern glass palaces, and is also an agent for Audi, VW and GM, so perhaps storage is limited for the Saab parts. There aren't many Saabs around here, so perhaps they don't have much call for them.
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I would have thought that as it was a GM dealer they would have them as an Opel part, maybe a little Saab/Opel cross referencing would have come up with the pads.
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It's quite surprising what bits I can get from places within 10 miles of here for the 1930 Morgan. Chains, bulbs, spark plugs, nuts and bolts and quite a bit more besides. Brake relining though I have to wait for it to be done.
Obviously it costs, but a large number of mechanical parts I can get through the club and for non-urgent bits, the grapevine of like minded members can often negate carriage charges.
It does of course help that having done a rebuild, I know where to go.
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No problems yet with my Volvo, LandRover or Triumph. I haven't yet needed a part that wasn't obtainable by next day's delivery.
But then they are not old models - only 1967, 1968 and 1992.
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>>>It's quite surprising what bits I can get from places within 10 miles of here for the 1930 Morgan.<<<
And you wonder why the SE members still take the micky out of the Norf? :)
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The same would be true of a Newcastle address. Anywhere with a background of engineering or farm supplying really.
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I once or twice saw Aero Morgans parked outside Hamrax Motors, the sporting biker shop up Ladbroke Grove from our old gaff, between the bridges maybe. There used to be a glass and windscreen place squeezed into an outdoor site up there too, get any glass you wanted there.
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If you are happy to deal on-line, namesake, Oscaro is very good in Europe, supplies Valeo-sourced and other decent kit and is not expensive.
A few months ago I bought new front pads for my late model XJS from a well-known Jaguar specialist in the UK at £18 the set, plus postage. They were boxed Ferodo and the specialist said they are the same as a Renault Espace.
€105 would have brought tears to my eyes.
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I recently came across a new set of Skoda Estelle pads in my shed. Application charts showed they also fitted a Wartburg Knight. Offered them for free on various owners club sites and someone in the USA had them.
How many 2-stroke Wartburgs could there be in the states?
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>> How many 2-stroke Wartburgs could there be in the states?
They made a nice 3-cylinder burble but were otherwise horrid, apart from being everlasting apparently.
DKW Sonderklasse and the early Saabs were great motors though.
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>> How many 2-stroke Wartburgs could there be in the states?
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I know where there is one.
www.car4play.com/forum/post/index.htm?v=e&t=18326&m=403895
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>> If you are happy to deal on-line, namesake, Oscaro is very good in Europe, supplies
>> Valeo-sourced and other decent kit and is not expensive.
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I sourced the front pads, and just yesterday a xenon sensor for the rear axle online. I rarely do otherwise.
Thanks for making a constructive contribution to what I thought was a simple thread, much appreciated.
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>> Thanks for making a constructive contribution to what I thought was a simple thread, much
>> appreciated.
Are you insinuating the rest of us are far from "constructive"?
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>> Are you insinuating the rest of us are far from "constructive"?
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Spot on Zero! The thread was about "how readily available are parts from dealers", not my judgement in wanting to purchase a specific item at a dealer, and all the other drifts that have arisen.
I may have misinterpreted your posts, so if you thought you were helping I apologise :-)
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>> I may have misinterpreted your posts, so if you thought you were helping I apologise
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You are forgiven, I mean its not your fault you have gone a bit native, bound to happen.
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>> Spot on Zero! The thread was about "how readily available are parts from dealers", not
>> my judgement in wanting to purchase a specific item at a dealer, and all the
>> other drifts that have arisen.
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"Is this common across all makes, or is it simply to do with Saab's situation? "
Pretty much an invitation to thread drift, I'd have thought?
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>>, so if you thought you were helping I apologise
Bazinga.
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Goodness me, I used to get bits for my old Matchless from Happy Hamrax. Are they still going?
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>> Are they still going?
I think not, and for some time. Used to see some well rakish stripped bikes there.
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>> I would have thought that as it was a GM dealer they would have them
>> as an Opel part, maybe a little Saab/Opel cross referencing would have come up with
>> the pads.
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It was clearly either beyond their remit, or they didn't have those in stock either ;-)
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I used to get my Ford V4 parts from Saab in the past-Ford never used the FoG V4 in the UK but Saab did.I never had to wait for them.
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Ford did use the V4 version of the Essex in the UK. In Transit vans for one.
But then one of their dealers said the gearbox on the 4/4 wasn't made by Ford - and it was. Single rail Rocket basically.
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Parts availability - Zero
