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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