After either suffering some external damage or following a breakdown, a conscious decision has to be made as a car owner. This decision is whether to buy genuine branded car parts or to go for non-genuine ones to get your car back on the road. There are plenty of pros and cons in this debate so here are the most important points to consider when facing this decision.
Genuine Parts
Genuine car parts are those made and sold by the manufacturer of your particular car. They will come from the same production line as your car and are then made available to officially registered retailers.
Pros
Easy to find: Unless you drive a bizarrely rare or old car, which parts may or may not exist still, finding genuine parts are incredibly easy. Parts dealers for all the major manufactures are readily available up and down the UK.
Assurance of quality: Unlike non genuine parts, of which there is a great deal of variation in quality, genuine parts will always be of the highest quality. This is because they are tested in the manufacturing process of your car model and therefore come off the exact same production line.
Warranty: Because of their trusted quality, most, if not all genuine parts traders will sell you parts along with a warranty. This is something you won’t get with non genuine parts which leave you venerable to further breakdowns if the parts turn out to be poor. For example Cox Motor Parts are a genuine Honda parts dealer and any part sold by them is covered by the Honda UK replacement Warranty, something which non genuine parts cannot promise.
