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Aftermarket parts manufacturers - recommendations

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30 Mar 2015 19:53 - 30 Mar 2015 19:55 #141658 by Bosanek
Hello!

I do not live in UK (I live in Bosnia and Herzegovina), and we have a significantly lower standard of living in this part of Europe. Therefore, the aftermarket car parts supply network is much more prevalent here than in lets say Western Europe.
And it is often the case that aftermarket car parts are of very inferior quality, in the case of "mainstream" brands like Volkswagen, Opel, Renault, Fiat, etc.

However, regarding Korean and Japanese car brands, the situation is special. There are only a couple of shops where you can buy aftermarket car parts for far eastern car brands. Therefore, the aftermarket car parts palette is rather limited here for those brands.



Now, to get to the point - what are good aftermarket parts manufacturers for Jimny parts? Over here, I can usually choose between Nipparts and Japanparts items, and sometimes Blueprint (however, Internet enables us today to buy anything from anywhere in the world). The prices of their parts are usually 5-6 TIMES cheaper than equivalent genuine Suzuki parts from authorized Suzuki dealers.
Now, I can not figure out if the genuine Suzuki prices are overly expensive / inflated, or if the aftermarket prices are due to their rather inferior quality.
For example, a single genuine front brake disc for my Jimny costs 130 EUR, while the equivalent Nipparts aftermarket brake disc costs only 25 EUR!! Is the first one a rip-off, or is the second one rubbish?


Therefore:
My ultimate question regarding this topic is:

What are good aftermarket parts manufacturers for Jimny?
How do their parts compare with genuine Suzuki parts in terms of quality and durability? Are they junk, near-junk or worth the peace of mind during use?


P.S.:
Final example: A single genuine Suzuki tie rod end costs 80 EUR, while a Nipparts one cost only 13 EUR !! Which one to buy?
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30 Mar 2015 21:26 #141668 by kirkynut
I have limited experience with Nipparts but believe them to be ok.

Blueprint are certainly ok. Some of their stuff is not the best but it is certainly not bad. For example their bushes are good quality but not quite as good as Suzuki's genuine parts but the price difference probably makes them the better buy.

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31 Mar 2015 06:19 #141690 by Lambert
With your example of brake discs I made the unfortunate decision to go for after market ones I think they were blueprint and they were out of true within a couple of weeks so went to suzuki dealers yes they weren't cheap but they are still true after well over a year.

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10 Apr 2015 10:10 #142236 by Bosanek
Thank you for your comments.

I managed to order genuine Suzuki brake discs for 100 EUR each, as that is something I would not want to mess about. And as I currently have a horrible death wobble while braking between 60 and 80 km/h, I am also hoping that the original brake discs might also remedy that.

Genuine brake pads were just too expensive at 85 EUR for the pair! They cost as much as genuine Land Cruiser brake pads. So I will probably go with Nipparts or Blueprint brake pads for cca 25 EUR for the pair.



The only aftermarket parts manufacturer which I can not find properly on the Internet is "Japanparts". A lot of aftermarket parts over here are made by them.
Has anyone bought anything made by them? I can not find their website. And Google searches are not very effective beceause of the very "generic" name of the company.


P.S.:
What are other good aftermarket parts manufacturers for Jimny? When I am buying over Internet, I am not limited to the local supply, so I could buy any aftermarket part. But I do not know which good manufacturers exist.

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