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Tue 24 May 2022 23:32
ALL MAKES AND MODELS - OEM PART NUMBERS - Gordon the golfer

Good evening gents. I’ve bought a couple of salvage vehicles and I'm struggling to buy second hand parts to repair them. I’m looking for a website/company that gives OEM numbers from registration numbers or vin numbers.

I prefer something free or a low subscription based.

I’ve come across parts link24 but they’re very pricey at £10 a day.

Any tips or advice will be hugely appreciated.

Good day.

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Wed 25 May 2022 09:26
ALL MAKES AND MODELS - OEM PART NUMBERS - Andrew-T

I think any places meeting your needs may specialise in particular makes, so perhaps you should tell us what those are ?

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Wed 25 May 2022 10:42
ALL MAKES AND MODELS - OEM PART NUMBERS - Gordon the golfer

i dont have a specific make/model. i coult buy a fiesta one week and a citroen the next.

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Wed 25 May 2022 11:10
ALL MAKES AND MODELS - OEM PART NUMBERS - badbusdriver

What is wrong with online breakers or even Ebay?. A few years ago I had an accident with my Transit Connect van and while, ultimately I decided to get rid of it, I did price up the parts I would have needed to fix it, all were available on Ebay. So i can't see why you'd struggle to find second hand parts for a car unless it wasn't very popular, or is too old for parts to be commonly available.

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Wed 25 May 2022 11:59
ALL MAKES AND MODELS - OEM PART NUMBERS - _

Will a specific site get recommended by the op shortly?

eBay is the way to go....

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Wed 25 May 2022 12:42
ALL MAKES AND MODELS - OEM PART NUMBERS - Andrew-T

i don't have a specific make/model. i could buy a fiesta one week and a citroen the next.

Sorry, I thought you said you had bought 'a couple of salvage vehicles'. Is that a habit ? :-)

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Wed 25 May 2022 12:48
ALL MAKES AND MODELS - OEM PART NUMBERS - sammy1

Never had a problem sourcing parts for popular makes from the second hand market but if you buy cars which are not the run of the mill you probably will

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Wed 25 May 2022 13:54
ALL MAKES AND MODELS - OEM PART NUMBERS - Engineer Andy

i don't have a specific make/model. i could buy a fiesta one week and a citroen the next.

Sorry, I thought you said you had bought 'a couple of salvage vehicles'. Is that a habit ? :-)

Sounds like to me that the OP is at least 'dabbling' in dealing in buying crashed vehicles, doing them up to some degree (perhaps to reduce the cat rating) and flogging them.

I would've thought that finding out about parts availability, locations and prices would be something to do prior to actually buying vehicles!

Perhaps they think that the current shortage of new and (roadworthy) second hand vehicles will provide them with a flurry of customers. Not the sort of business I would personally want to get into, but each to their own...

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Wed 25 May 2022 14:09
ALL MAKES AND MODELS - OEM PART NUMBERS - badbusdriver

Perhaps they think that the current shortage of new and (roadworthy) second hand vehicles will provide them with a flurry of customers. Not the sort of business I would personally want to get into, but each to their own...

It could be a hobby.

I have a customer who works for Europarts, but he also buys damaged cars, repairs them and sells them on. Of course this happens over the course of a few weeks, he certainly wouldn't be buying the next one after one week!. That suggests the OP is doing it (or planning to) full time, or that the damage is only minor.

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Wed 25 May 2022 19:58
ALL MAKES AND MODELS - OEM PART NUMBERS - Crickleymal

Try Partsouq. You enter your VIN and it gives you detailed exploded diagrams with part numbers.

partsouq.com/?utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google...E

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Wed 25 May 2022 20:29
ALL MAKES AND MODELS - OEM PART NUMBERS - blindspot

thanks for that. just the sort of thing i need at times

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Wed 25 May 2022 22:02
ALL MAKES AND MODELS - OEM PART NUMBERS - Paulsxf

also 7zap.com

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Thu 26 May 2022 12:24
ALL MAKES AND MODELS - OEM PART NUMBERS - Gibbo_Wirral

Here's the Peugeot one:

catalogs.ssg.asia/peugeot/?lang=en

and Citroen:

catalogs.ssg.asia/citroen/?lang=en

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Thu 26 May 2022 18:20
ALL MAKES AND MODELS - OEM PART NUMBERS - John Boy

Vauxhall:

vauxhall.7zap.com/en/car/

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