Most of you will likely not have seen the latest offering of BMW Classic. They have now begun to sell spare parts themselves and although they´re currently only offering this for the German market their website is useful to determine up-to-date pricing for spare parts.
I think it is likely that other languages/markets will follow suit but they are new to this business and will have to learn to cater for online customers first
In case the above link does not lead to the parts catalogue follow this one and use your intuition.
Prices indicated include 19% VAT and also indicate the (general) availability of parts. "E" or "AE" means gone for good
Enter the last 7 digits of your VIN as indicated:
Then either enter the desired part number after clicking "Suche nach Teilenummer" or follow the graphical path to select the desired parts page - e.g. front EDC shocks:
Whoever feels he is getting shafted by his dealer can either take this printout with him or (likely better) ask one of us German guys to act as a relay. Items costing more than 1k EUR will be difficult to ship outside the EU (customs handling gets complicated there). VAT will normally not be deductable but within the EU borders there won´t be additional taxes etc. upon import. Different situation for those in e.g. Norway where at least the local VAT likely has to be added on top of the sales and shipping cost (don´t know about import taxes). It may nevertheless be a lot cheaper than buying up North.
Cheers
Reinhard