I'm in Denmark, and if in a hurry, I've bought parts locally, but that's expensive. For normal service parts and projects I've so far bought most of what I need in the UK, places like British Parts and of ebay.co.uk.

But after Brexit, that won't work. No matter what the brexiteers say, buying from UK is now a lot less attractive than before. It's not that the parts themselves are now consistently x% more expensive, it's that they now don't flow through Danish customs, they are being looked at, now, there's a great delay because Danish customs are swamped by the volume that now has to be looked at. Further, the local custom people charges €25 to charge customs and VAT. You read that right, a handling fee, a tax on collecting taxes. At the start this only applies to goods over €12, but soon all products! So buying something in the UK (or anywhere else outside the EU of course) for maybe €30, will cost €30+freight+customs+vat+€25 handling fee.
And you have to wait 2-3 weeks for it... You can see that buying inside the EU can be half price and half delivery time...

So my question is, all EU X150 owners, where in the EU do you buy parts for your car, outside UK? Preferably a place with a good website, parts for our modern Jags, reasonable prices, parts in stock, reasonable delivery times? Germany, Holland, France, Sweden, Poland? Whatever?

Thanks


Thanks

 

Try SNG Barratt, they have branches in FR, DE, and NL.

 

Jaguar-Hermann could be your best choice

 

Hi, fully agree that currently buying anything from UK is a nightmare... however the problem is more complex. It will affect any EU Continental suppliers too. I used to buy either directly from UK or from a Polish supplier (who has a good discounts in the UK). Both options sucks now...

I recently bought couple of OEM parts from a Lithuanian seller on eBay. Delivery to Poland in 1-1,5week. Prices - not super attractive, but not the worst.

 

https://baf-parts.com/de/ bought my water hoses there

https://xkstore.at/ nice guy

https://www.jaguar-shop.com/epages/6...0X150%20%29%22 also helpful

https://jaguar-teile.de/ answers nice

https://www.jaguarpartseurope.com/de/?familie=4

List is for sure not complete.

Keep your Cat running!

Hermann

 

To Nookat´s post

 

I am in eastern Canada and have bought parts from both the US and UK. I even tried both the US and UK branches of SNG Barratt, My experinece is that generally stuff from the UK is cheaper by up to 20% and even more so when factoring in shipping. Also I find that UK delivery is exponentially faster than delivery from the US or even central Canada. I regularly place an order with SNg Barratt UK an have it in my hand in less than 5 calendar days. US delivery is never less than 2 full weeks

 

I think US deliveries are covid delayed to us in EU, as not many planes go back and forth. For me it was 2 weeks, now 4-5 weeks

 

Are looking for the usual service and small repair parts or more significant, model-specific parts?

I buy the former form a number of reputable parts suppliers in Germany depending on who has the best prices. I'm not one for Jaguar boxed filters, sparl plugs or wipers or even brake discs and pads unless it is for the front of my XKR, where the grippy Jurid-souced Jaguar pads are my favourite.

More model-specific parts, I just work out whether the savings from the UK or US are worth the extra hassle and the pain of returns, should they be necessary. In general, Jaguar parts are cheaper in the UK, but many Ford era parts are also pretty cheap in the US. Continental Europe is generally expensive for original parts, particularly as Jaguars just don't sell in big numbers here. Aftermarket parts are very competitively priced in Germany so if you can identify the original supplier, such as Lemförder for suspension parts, ATE for brakes, or whatever, you often get the same part at a very good saving.