Revealed: eBay UK's top 10 priciest car parts 2024

Everyone’s feeling the ever-tweakier financial pinch, including owners of high-end cars. Many are saving fortunes by shunning official dealers in favour of online marketplaces to buy pricey replacement components, confirmed by eBay UK’s rundown of the 10 most expensive parts and accessories sold on its platform in 2024.

Chances are that if you’re a regular HonestJohn.co.uk visitor then you’re probably ‘into cars’. Many who self-identify as such also spend a fair bit of phone-time browsing online marketplaces for automotive-centric odds and ends, whether or not they actually need any of them.

A tenner for an LS specification Mk3 Vauxhall Cavalier here, £25 for a rugby ball-shaped headrest for a special edition Peugeot 806 Eden Park there and… You what, now? — £16,567 for 5204ccs-worth of V10 engine for an Audi R8?

Yes, once a hotbed of sellers looking for new homes for their unloved and long-forgotten curios rediscovered during attic and garage clear-outs, eBay has evolved into an online shopping destination where even high performance and luxury car owners go to source high-value parts at bargainous prices.

That V10 powerplant isn’t the largest-capacity engine in eBay UK’s top 10 most expensive car parts and accessories of 2024 as the Aston Martin DB9’s 5935cc V12 also makes the cut. In fact, three other engines also feature along with a quartet of sought-after carbon fibre fixtures and fittings.

eBay UK Top 10 Most Expensive Car Parts 2024

Rank	Car part	To fit which model?	Price paid
1	V10 engine	Audi R8	£16,567
2	Carbon bucket seats	Porsche 911 GT3 (991)	£13,086
3	Carbon bucket seats	Porsche Cayman GT4 (981)	£11,962
4	Carbon bucket seats	Porsche 911 GT3 (991)	£11,706
5=	3.0-litre engine	Porsche Macan	£10,049
5=	V8 engine	Mercedes-AMG E63	£10,049
7	V12 engine	Aston Martin DB9	£9546
8	V8 engine	Audi RS6 and Audi RS7	£9241
9	Rally bodyshell	Ford Escort Mk2	£9146
10	Carbon front diffuser	McLaren MP4-12C	£9051

Just outside the top 10 were a set of Pirelli-shod alloy wheels for a Lamborghini Urus which sold for a smidge under £8000, the rear subframe for a Ferrari 488 Spider costing a cool £7678 and £10,189 for a Rolls-Royce engine — not one for a luxurious motor car but a Harrier jump jet.

So what’s going on? eBay doesn’t think it’s solely value for money that its users want, but variety according its parts and accessories UK director of commercial operations, Abir Tewari: ‘eBay has a fantastic selection of car parts and accessories available, from the basics like tyres and oil, right up to specialist and hard-to-find high performance parts — it’s the platform of choice for motorists of all kinds.’.

Back in the world most of us reside in among the most frequently purchased — and modestly priced — car parts on eBay UK were tyre valve caps and headlight beam conversion deflectors. Sadly beaded seat covers and full-width rear windscreen stickers of the car’s model name in a racy red font aren’t as popular these days.