Parts price directory

Typical UK guide prices for common parts, listed per car model.

Know the price before the garage tells you

Every driver knows the feeling: the garage phones with a quote, the number sounds large, and you have absolutely no idea whether it is fair. The DrivePedia car parts price directory exists for that phone call. It lists typical UK guide prices for the most common replacement parts — brake pads and discs, clutches, batteries, alternators, suspension components and more — broken down by model, so you can check a quote against reality before you authorise the work.

Parts pricing in Britain is notoriously opaque. The same brake pads can cost one price at a main dealer, another at an independent garage, and a third if you supply them yourself — with labour on top varying just as wildly. The directory gives you the anchor number: what the part itself typically costs for your exact model, distinguishing main-dealer, independent and DIY-supply scenarios where it matters. Armed with that, “we’ll need to order the parts, it’ll be £400” becomes a conversation you can participate in, not a bill you simply accept. Knowledge is the only negotiating tool a garage truly respects.

How to use this directory

Choose your car’s make and model from the directory and you will see its most commonly replaced parts listed by system: brakes, clutch and transmission, electrical, suspension and steering, and cooling. Each part shows a typical UK guide price range for the component itself, based on main-dealer, quality aftermarket and budget aftermarket options where relevant. Where labour varies significantly — a clutch versus a battery, for instance — the directory notes typical fitting time so you can sanity-check the labour line on your quote too. Use it before you book the work: look up the part, note the range, and ask the garage which brand of part their quote assumes. That single question separates the fair garages from the opportunistic ones.

Example: what do Corsa brake pads cost?

Your Vauxhall Corsa 2024 starts squealing under braking, and the garage quotes you for front brake pads. Before agreeing, you open the parts directory, select the Corsa, and look under the brakes section. There you find the typical UK guide price range for a set of front pads for this exact model — quality aftermarket versus main-dealer original — plus the usual fitting time, which for pads is well under an hour. If the garage’s quote sits near the top of the range using a budget part with a full hour of labour charged, you now have a polite, specific question to ask: which pads are these, and why the hour? That question alone, asked calmly, has saved many a driver a meaningful sum — and it only works if you looked the number up first.

Frequently asked questions

Guide prices only — always confirm with your supplier or garage.