Nailing Toyota for parts prices - please help?
 

I am really asking for a lot of help on this one, cause Toyota have been ripping us off for so long in South Africa, that I always have to import parts myself...

I have finally gotten a response from Toyota SA, and they want competetive pricing for parts (like they can't find out themselves) and then they will look at discounting the bunch of things that I need - The prices here are THREE to FOUR times more expensive than in the US.

Could anyone get prices from a Toyota dealer there for the following, and then I will go back to our guys and shove it in their faces for a fat discount. Just as a comparison, I am able to get a rear hatch rubber from the US for $60 (shipped), and here it costs $210 - COME ON! I already had to pay $10 000 (rare cars here) for my 1987 n/a so now the parts are going to screw me in.

If someone could give me comparative prices on:
clutch kit / p/plate and bearing
rear hatch seal
steering rack rubber boots
suspension bushes
lower wishbone arms
upper A arms (I think - the one that has the ball joint? - sorry I am dumb here)
black strip under front bumper
rotors and pads
speedo cable

I would really appreciate your help guys, cause man, I can't enjoy my car :(

Jonny K

try seeing if you can find parts online...there are some people that are auxilary dealers for toyota..meaning they sell stock parts for toyota and sell and ship them around the world...search the web you might find something..also someone on teh forum might be willing to ship you some extra parts they might have laying around...let us know if u still need help

From the 'i-supra' forum site....

Hello,Everyone! First off, let me introduce myself.

My name is Curt Aigner.I'm the parts manager at Elmhurst Toyota.I am a Chicago Metro Toyota Dealer.I have 20 yrs experience with Toyota parts and with Supra. I've owned 7 various years of MKIV's and have as my current project a 98 TT 6spd.

I've been supplying OEM Toyota / TRD replacement parts to the Supra community for over 2 years.

I offer excellent "cost +" pricing,and UPS daily Nationwide.

Please feel free to contact me personally VIA phone or PC for your price quotes.


I hope that we can all can keep the "Supra" alive and running strong thru everyones efforts on this board.

Curt
630.279.2265 parts direct m-f 3am-3pm
630.461.2140 my cell
eparts@elmhursttoyota.com

Good luck ! Also try Champion Toyota.(search all the supra forums for the contact info)

awesome - thanks very much. Would be a great start if you could get going on the items I have listed above, as I have been buying things from all over and would prefer one source... Could you pm me?

Make sure thought that the upper control arms are for a right hand drive, as something tells me they may be slightly different for a leftie.

If you can source eibach springs and koni shocks as well you will have a bunch of bits to ship over :)

Cheers

Jon
UMMM - just realized that "curt" did not post this - I will mail him, duh...

Try here too.
http://www.toyotaworld.com/