MSpares are the best for the parts and delivery

Msport are quite expensive for freight and will wait a week before telling you how much.

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

All garage work involves equal measures of enthusiasm, ingenuity and a fair degree of irresponsibility.

MiniSpares are good . They will ship up to 2 Kg by mail - overthat it is freight - that's because Royal Mail will not take parcels by air over 2 Kg and Air Mail is the only service available for letters and small parcels all else is freight. When I buy something I try and add smaller items I need and use the weight allocation up. MiniSpares have the weight of the items on the checkout page and you can add and subtract until you get it right

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David L


My greatest fear in life is that when I die my wife will sell my Mini and tools for the price I told her I paid for them!

Yes MiniSpares are excellent.

I've bought thousands of stuff from them, and they are always very quick on emails etc.

My contact there is Stevie Toner.

I just bought some gear through Hythe Performance in Surrey. Good prices, good service. Always reply to emails. Mini Spares didn't answer my first email, and my second email was met with "Please fax through your questions to our export department". I sent them an email telling them email or nothing, they didn't respond.
Prices from Hythe were pretty good, as good as if not better than anywhere else I looked. The only thing required is that you need to email them and get a quote for freight - it's the same as what Wombat mentioned with regards to Mini Spares, most orders will be too big for Royal Mail. But the freight prices weren't any worse than the other quotes I received.

I used M-Machine lately as they had some things no one else had in stock or made. They were very helpful and would email back etc, also the postage was quite good.

http://www.m-machine.co.uk/

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I try to make a decent package of stuff up from Minispares and then only pay once for freight. (Like willy, Stevie Toner is the go!)

They do some discount 'packages' for suspension say if you buy Hi-lo's, shox and cones all at the same time.

Mini Machine good for panels that are NLA elsewhere.

Also be aware of VAT, (Like Gst) if you export, you can deduct VAT, but if you ship to someone in UK, then get it forwaded, you will get clobbered with VAT....... Oh and it's 17.5% over there !!

Graham

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Sir Alec! we are not worthy!

Really watch the freight, got a quote for $50 and $100 for identical items from different places. If buying from ebay I use DHL of parcel2go depending on weight and if the seller will use them.

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Michael N

Always check the freight rates before ordering. This is possible with MiniSpares and I have had no problems ordering from them. Deliveries have taken no longer than 4 days and contrary to Wombats post, I have had one delivery coming in at 6.8 Kg and by UPS air. Freight was same price as goods but still way cheaper than here.