Huge difference in service part prices. Why?

Jimmy Garlic

I was buying a fuel filter for an xtrail online today and noticed a huge difference in price between brands. For example, blueprint fuel filter - just shy of 20 quid..Mann filter almost 50. How can there be such a huge price difference for what is a basic enough service part? Does the quality of the Mann filter greatly exceed that of the blueprint?

mickdw

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

I was buying a fuel filter for an xtrail online today and noticed a huge difference in price between brands. For example, blueprint fuel filter - just shy of 20 quid..Mann filter almost 50. How can there be such a huge price difference for what is a basic enough service part? Does the quality of the Mann filter greatly exceed that of the blueprint?

Any possibility that one comes with drain tap etc attached. No doubt there will be a difference in quality between them but at those prices, you would have to wonder if the expensive one is worth it.

allthedoyles

Genuine and spurious - its been going on for years

No major difference - only price - ask any Auto-Factor

Jimmy Garlic

mickdw wrote: »

Any possibility that one comes with drain tap etc

They look exactly the same, no discernible difference.

Jimmy Garlic

allthedoyles wrote: »

Genuine and spurious - its been going on for years

No major difference - only price - ask any Auto-Factor

That's what I was thinking. Surely everything has to live up to the same standard.

toyotaavensis

i always find blue print air and pollen filters feel as good a quality as any other brand i have seen at a good price.

Eric Cartman

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

That's what I was thinking. Surely everything has to live up to the same standard.

There are some cases like fram and some other brands oil filters can be of a lower quality but for the most part its fine

toyotaavensis

true that. I remember once ordering a blue print pollen filter from micksgarage and they sent me a filtermaster one. It really felt lighter. I was much happier 12 months later when I got another blue print filter.

biko

Sometimes there is a huge difference in quality and sometimes the parts are identical. It really depends on what you compare with.

I use blueprint brake pads myself, ok value.

SleeperService

biko wrote: »

Sometimes there is a huge difference in quality and sometimes the parts are identical. It really depends on what you compare with.

I use blueprint brake pads myself, ok value.

Coffee/beer/wine sometimes you're paying for a name, sometimes it's just a no contest better product. Sometimes you just have to learn the hard way how cheap is too cheap!

rovoagho

allthedoyles wrote: »

Genuine and spurious - its been going on for years

No major difference - only price - ask any Auto-Factor

All of the parts mentioned in the OP's post are spurious. I do not think that word means what you think it means.

vw4life

Blueprint are not a parts manufacturer, they source their parts from different manufacturers, some oem and some oe. I've gotten genuine parts of them a good few times now.

JohnBoy26

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

I was buying a fuel filter for an xtrail online today and noticed a huge difference in price between brands. For example, blueprint fuel filter - just shy of 20 quid..Mann filter almost 50. How can there be such a huge price difference for what is a basic enough service part? Does the quality of the Mann filter greatly exceed that of the blueprint?

Id have no hesitation in buying a blueprint filter. I've never had any issue with their parts and find them to be of good quality.

As someone else said some of their parts are oem.