Citroen Car Parts – Where To Buy Online!

February 6th, 2010 by Robbie Hall

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If you type ‘citroen car parts’ into google.co.uk, you will find over 600,000 results listed. I cannot claim to have tried, or even visited, all of these websites but I do like to think that I do know how to find a good car parts supplier online thesedays.

Hopefully, by now you will have read my post titled ‘Why buying cheap car parts online makes sense‘, in summary you will save both money and time.  I have owned Citroen cars for over 17 years now and have received all manner of service from the very good down to the very bad! Online there are certainly the same variations in quality and service that you find offline, however if you check your search results against the following three criteria, you should be fine buying parts online.

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First off, is your online supplier offering value for money? I always tell myself that shopping online has to save  least 10% on buying form my local supplier, otherwise you might as well keep it local. At least you’ll know who to go and see should there be any problems! Most good online car parts websites will save you around 20% from offline retail. I’ll always cross check prices from three online Citroen parts suppliers.

Secondly, how easy is the website your browsing to use? Not everyone knows there brake pads from their oil filters and most good online car parts suppliers make their websites easy to use for everyone. All you should need to know is the make and model of your car, the website direct you to all the parts you need from that information only.

Thirdly, when you have found what you believe to be a great price from a well designed website – give them a ring, drop them an email. How quickly and politely do they respond? The websites that offer the most efficient and polite customer service I have found generally turn out to be the best to buy from in every sense.

If you look through your potential online suppliers with the above three reference pints in mind, you’ll be well on your way to reducing the costs of servicing your Citroen.

Out of the 600K results Google UK offers us when we search for ‘citroen car parts’, I am sure you could find many suppliers who pass all three of our checkpoints above. My own personal favourite right now has to be Car Parts Direct. I have bought almost all of my Citroen Parts from them for the last eleven months. Always great prices, wonderful service and a very easy to use website (all you do is enter your car make and model at the top of the page). I do recommend you cross check any prices you find elsewhere against them, just to be sure – and do please mention that I sent you their way should you choose to pay them a visit.

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Citroen Car Mechanic Search

February 2nd, 2010 by Robbie Hall

In my last post I promised you a video on how I go about searching for local Citroen mechanics to fit the car parts I’ve sourced online. Well, thanks to the power of YouTube, here’s that video:

Citroen Car Parts Mechanic Search Tips

Hope it proves useful! Next time, my tips on sourcing the right online dealer to buy your Citroen car parts from, plus I’ll name my own favourite dealer.

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Why buying cheap car parts online makes sense!

January 26th, 2010 by Robbie Hall

There are two major benefits to buying car parts online.
Firstly and obviously – this is an opportunity to save money! The world is an ever increasingly expensive place and any method of cost saving allows you enjoy life that little bit more. As a trained accountant, I’m geared to discovering cost savings wherever I can. To quote figures, I can tell you with total confidence that buying Citroen car parts online has consistently beaten my local Citroen garage by at least 25%, and on occasion up to 40%. Add to that the time and petrol saving from not having to visit some garage or store far less comfortable than your nice, warm living room!

If you’re lucky enough to have some mechanical knowledge, then buying car parts online means you can probably save even more money by fitting your new car parts yourself. Now, I wish to point out here that I am a mechanically minded soul! Additionally, I have neither the time, nor capability, to become one. At first, this fact made me believe that buying car parts was not a good idea for me, as an avid internet user I was fairly confident I would be able to find cheap Citroen car parts – but then how on earth would I ever fit them?

The answer came from the sudden rise of Google Local. For those of you who use the internet often, you will no doubt be aware of Google Local Listings. These are search results that come up when we search for a keyword followed by a location, for example ‘mechanic, york.’ Local listings also often bring up small, localised business above their larger (and more expensive) main dealers. Locality is the key to a good Google Local listing as all entries have to be verified by phone or post.

By using Google Local, I quickly discovered three sole trader mechanics located within a short commute. One of these three was even a mobile mechanic and with a cost per hour lower than the other two, and far lower than the main dealers, I suddenly had a local mechanic who could fit my parts sourced online at discount price.

Google Local is growing at an alarming rate, smaller, local businesses are becoming well aware that Google Local offers them the opportunity to compete for business in and around their postcode base. I am willing to bet that almost every area within the UK has at least one or two sole trader/perhaps even mobile mechanics. I will soon be posting a video on how you too can search Google Local for a cost effective mechanic close to you.

To give you an idea of how ‘cost effective’ this can be, I estimate to have saved over £600 last year on car mechanic costs alone – based on the average main dealer charging £25 per hour for labour.  Of course, this figure does not take into account the additional savings I made on sourcing my car parts over the internet.

I hope this post has begun to demonstrate the potential savings that can be made by sourcing cheap car parts online.

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A Citroen Car Fetish?

January 19th, 2010 by Robbie Hall

I’m not sure there is any mechanical or real logic behind my love of citroens, all I know that after 17 years of driving Citroens (five in total), it would feel very strange for me to not include the word ‘Citroen’ in any answer to the question ‘What do you drive?’

I have met many who don’t care for, or even positively hate, Citroens. Yet I would say if you want a car with personality, one that will live your life by your side – then you can’t go wrong with a Citroen. They are always fashionable, have bags of personality and are relatively low maintenance – Citroen car parts are cheap, as I’ll be demonstrating later. Further savings can be made on fuel consumption, which all Citroens are excellent on thesedays, in fact they are all around greenly good for the world. Now if that isn’t the kind of car that makes you feel good everyday, I don’t know what is!

It almost feels to me in many ways that Citroens have grown up with me, from my days as a budding drummer touring the country with my rock band, through to me today, a dad conscious of the world his kids are growing up in.

It’s probably obvious that I love Citroens, and like all things we love in life, perhaps there is little in way of real logic here and more in the way of feelings. In short, I feel good in Citroens and that’s why I drive them!

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