CV Joint Supplier

Good day Ken,

Reviewing the Superformance web site, the CVs and boots have the same part number for the 308's and 365/400/412 series cars. They offer the CV's for 99.95 GBP or 108.95 GBP (Lightweight version) and boots for 7.95 GBP. However, they do sell a boot kit (single boot, grease, clips) for 9.95 GBP via their part number of 24613025.

Ordering just the boot kit may or may not make fiscal sense given the transport and importation costs involved. In my case, these costs were moot, as I simply added the boot kits to my suspension part order and so the slight additional increase in transport costs were little, etc.

Cheers,

Sam

 

Good day Ken,

Indeed, these are one of the few parts that are shared with a number of other cars and so a number of suppliers are available. In my case it made sense to order from SF, as I was buying a bunch of things anyway and so adding the boot kits did not change the shipping cost at all.

These days, one really needs to shop around and be aware and mindful of the parts our cars use. For example bearings, etc... At times the f-car price is magnitudes more than the sourcing the same part/manufacturer from another supplier. I bought all of my 365's suspension bushings (not suspension rubbers) from Europe (Amsterdam) for like $0.20 each... as opposed to $20+ that some f-car suppliers were charging... for exactly the same part. My local bearing supplier wanted around $35 each. That being said, buying one may not make sense given the transport and importation fees, etc and so I bought all of the bearings and bushings I needed for my 365 and Boxer. In the end I think I saved upwards of $800+ even considering the transport/import fees with nothing more than a few minutes using another firm's online ordering system.

Cheers,

Sam

 

Could you share the link of the supplier for the suspension bushings in Amsterdam?

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It seems to me, the 412 does not use a mix of famblocks ("bushing" with rubber) and bushings (metal to metal) like the 365. Your car should only need famblocks.

 

Arent't these cv joints the same as BMW 3321 1205840 - GKN/Löbro C.153.15.87.002 - Porsche 93033203400.

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Good day,

Sure, the place I bought all of my items was https://www.abf.store/s/en/

Cheers,

Sam

 

Good day Raemin,

I suspect you are correct, as the 365 uses a number of metal to metal bushings that the later cars do not. However, the 365 does share some of the same flamblock style rubber parts as other models too. The bearing supplier I used could not supply the flamblock style parts and for these I used Superformance. On my side I always have to consider shipping and importation costs as an overall factor in my purchases, as these costs can be quite significant and especially these days. Since I had a running order for SuperFormance it simply made sense to add the additional items I needed.

Speaking of the shipping costs, over the past year or so (do primarily to Covid), shipping costs (in and outbound) have increased dramatically. Inbound into Canada from Europe/Asia has increased around 60% or so. Even so it is still pretty impressive that I can order goods from great distances and have them air shipped to my door in a few days time for reasonable prices even considering the increases. I cannot comment on Ocean shipping, as it has been a while since I needed such a large volume shipment, but again I was amazed at how little the Ocean shipping cost was given the distance and complexities involved (pickup, deliver to port, ship, unload at port, transport to my city).

Cheers,

Sam

 

Thanks Ken. Very nice info. There are several universally used parts on our cars and this is just another good example. Nice to have a reasonable alternative of same quality when the time comes

 

You mentioned they are common on mid-engine v8's. I know on my 328 the half shafts, cv joints, and boots are German made and are found on many Porsches from the same era.

 

Yes

They are also available from Meyle for about 35-45$usd p/n: 414 498 0000

We use 2 of these on our engine Dyno, in the drive shaft between the engine and power absorption unit. For a car I would buy GKN, but the Meyle have worked fine for me.