Penske website?

Oops - you are right! Hopefully not another one down! :( - RIP tomkinsonbmw -

penskeparts has always been THE part number source for me!
 
I have a lot of little parts to order and don't want to have to type in each part number and quantity. Their shopping cart works (worked?) well and I like supporting them.
 
I agree - I also placed a bunch of orders with them in the past. They were always helpful and friendly (received candy with my order!).
 
It's the ease of finding and ordering all the little pieces that I will miss. Their shopping cart would tell you how many screws etc are needed for a particular part and you just pushed the button. I had a cart full of transmission seals, bushings, washers, nuts, bolts, shift rod pieces etc etc that I was about to order.

I guess it's Realoem copy and then paste into Tischer or ECS now.

i agree, but its another option to get a part number.
 
I recall their prices are quite high?

My local dealer ran the site. Every time I bought a part there they charged about 20% over MSRP and gave me a BMW CCA discount to about 5% over MSRP. It is less expensive for me to buy parts from Tischer and have them shipped than to buy from my local dealer.
 
My local dealer ran the site. Every time I bought a part there they charged about 20% over MSRP and gave me a BMW CCA discount to about 5% over MSRP. It is less expensive for me to buy parts from Tischer and have them shipped than to buy from my local dealer.

During my days as a parts manager at a Dealership it was a common practice by most dealers to use a pricing matrix that increased the prices over MSRP based on a couple of criteria. Always better to buy at a " cost Plus %" than "List less %" because list can be what ever the management/owners decides. We had a turn signal bulb that got bumped to almost $6. I couldn't look someone in the eye and charge that much for a bulb so most parts like that were manually adjusted back to MSRP.
 
Back
Top