OEM parts prices in Canada - Dropping????

[Ramage]

I noticed a significant drop in OEM parts pricing from BMW Canada yesterday. I have a Google sheet to track all the work I do and plan to do on my car, along with a list of parts and links to those parts.

Examples: - I hope it is ok to add these links.

• https://shop.bmw.ca/p/43850902/51167001410.html
  • Was $427.39, now $285.64 - Difference of $141.75
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• https://parts.brianjesselbmw.com/p/4...131437237.html
  • Was $94.24, now $60.82 - Difference of $33.42
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• https://parts.brianjesselbmw.com/p/4...478243085.html
  • Was $98.21, now $57.74 - Difference of $40.47
  • 

Anyone have any insight into what is going on? Some of these prices are lower than those listed on many US-based sites.

[jing]

Buy first, ask later!

Glad I waited now as some bits I need have dropped from $260 -> $175, and $220 -> $180.

[Gt4]

Cool! I had a $6000usd cart made on a US website!

[PetrolM3]

Interesting...

[karter16]

Interesting - just checked schmiedmann for a random selection of parts, a bunch of the parts I checked are 15-20% cheaper than they were 6 months ago


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[PSUEng]

I've noticed a few things cheaper as well. Don't recall what exactly as I have carts all over the place!😂

[George Hill]

Almost everything I regularly buy from BMW has been getting cheaper the last couple months. The cheap stuff like nuts, bolts, washers, o-rings are about the same if not slightly up. But I think the other stuff is just returning to how it was as soon as a year ago.

[PSUEng]

Just checked my records--back in Nov 2024 I bought an OE blower resistor for $188 and now it's $148 from the dealer I use. Hmmm.... I need to re-evaluate my carts. I wonder if this is a final "send off" of parts, to close them out. Hmmm.

[PetrolM3]

Just checked my records--back in Nov 2024 I bought an OE blower resistor for $188 and now it's $148 from the dealer I use. Hmmm.... I need to re-evaluate my carts. I wonder if this is a final "send off" of parts, to close them out. Hmmm.

That's what I thought too - that this could be the final 'send off' so they can get rid of inventory that's not moving. Not sure what else it could be...

[bmwfnatic]

Took you guys a while to catch on, on exactly 01.01.2025 BMW Germany/Europe changed the prices on the entire catalog, normally this means raising all prices, but this year randomly they lowered the prices for many items, strange stuff, but nice for a change, instead of another price raise.

[PetrolM3]

Took you guys a while to catch on, on exactly 01.01.2025 BMW Germany/Europe changed the prices on the entire catalog, normally this means raising all prices, but this year randomly they lowered the prices for many items, strange stuff, but nice for a change, instead of another price raise.

Yeah - definitely strange but we can't complain about this even if we paid more for something over the past couple of years.

I bought a 2024 VW GTI last year and just last week, VW finally announced the pricing for 2025 cars and guess what? Believe it or not, prices went down by ~ $1000 for all models (base GTI, AB, and golf R). This is unheard of in the current era.

[ac427]

Took you guys a while to catch on, on exactly 01.01.2025 BMW Germany/Europe changed the prices on the entire catalog, normally this means raising all prices, but this year randomly they lowered the prices for many items, strange stuff, but nice for a change, instead of another price raise.

Are you based in Europe?

I know there was a 2.5% rise at the end of January here in the UK.

Here are some UK prices for reference:

TPS are £96 each
The cowling at the bottom of the windscreen is an amazing £300 The actual glass is slightly less!
The exterior trim on the top of the with the rubber seal for the window is £285 as is the rear quarter window trim. So that's £1200 for 4 seals.