D&W in Germany
John Hamill
go to a D&W store in Germany! If you do go, don't bring a credit card!
If you do bring a credit card, don't attempt to bring the whole store
home! I recently went to a D&W center in Bochum, Germany. If you are not
familiar this is the car store of car stores. Nothing in the US or
probably anywhere comes close to this chain. You walk in and instantly
you are presented with thousands of all the coolest parts you could ever
imagine bolting to a car. Hundreds of aftermarket wheels in stock with
excellent tires already mounted, just buy them, take em outside and bolt
them on. All the stuff from Hella, Bosch, Kamei, Zender, D&W and many
other German tuners all in stock, all for Audi, VW, BMW, Mercedes etc..
The catalog is huge, and when you walk into an outlet there, they have
most of it in the store. I was mesmerized, no, flabbergasted at all the
parts available. One thing I also noticed, Ron's Parts and others are
selling the catalog here for like $60, the D&W catalog in Germany was 12
Marks. The exchange is 1.6 (translation about 8 bucks). It's still worth
it though.
I warned you
Walter R. Quitt
John Hamill <joh...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
Been there, done that. It is a blast! It is a boutique of really
neat stuff! NOTHING here that can compare. The catalog
is available throughout Germany at practically any place
that has magazines. My buddies who come to visit keep
bringing me them. Way Kewl. The main store in Bochum
is right of the ole Autobahn. With that (pink?) Jet outside
how could you miss the place?
Dang, now when is that next (excuse) to go to Europe?
Grins,
Walt....
Wally's Wacky World
http://www.znet.com/~wa6fec
David Pipes
In article <357d665c...@news.znet.com>, Walter R. Quitt
<wa6...@nospam.znet.com> writes
> All the stuff from Hella, Bosch, Kamei, Zender, D&W and many
>>other German tuners all in stock, all for Audi, VW, BMW, Mercedes etc..
>>The catalog is huge, and when you walk into an outlet there, they have
>>most of it in the store. I was mesmerized, no, flabbergasted at all the
>>parts available. One thing I also noticed, Ron's Parts and others are
>>selling the catalog here for like $60, the D&W catalog in Germany was 12
>>Marks. The exchange is 1.6 (translation about 8 bucks). It's still worth
>>it though.
I'm told that D&W earns more money through its catalogue sales than
through selling car parts. That's probably why there are so many half
naked ladies in the catalogue, so suckers will actually _pay_ for it
when other accessory shops give their's away free.
In '88 I bought a set of R&H wheels and tyres at D&W in Frankfurt (drove
from the UK on steel rims and old tyres which I left behind in Germany).
I reckon I saved over 200UK pounds on the purchase.
D&W is OK, but not for _tuning_ stuff. It's #1 for bolt-on goodies
though.
--
David Pipes
VW Motoring writer/photographer
'88 A2 16V 168,000 miles, '91 A2 GTD 90,000 miles
da...@plusone.demon.co.uk
slowcarfasterbike
So the question of the day is: what did you buy?
:-)
Stuart
On Sun, 07 Jun 1998 22:40:13 -0400, John Hamill
<joh...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>This is a warning to all who like to purchase aftermarket parts, don't
>go to a D&W store in Germany! If you do go, don't bring a credit card!
>If you do bring a credit card, don't attempt to bring the whole store
>home! I recently went to a D&W center in Bochum, Germany. If you are not
>familiar this is the car store of car stores. Nothing in the US or
>probably anywhere comes close to this chain. You walk in and instantly
>you are presented with thousands of all the coolest parts you could ever
>imagine bolting to a car. Hundreds of aftermarket wheels in stock with
>excellent tires already mounted, just buy them, take em outside and bolt
>them on. All the stuff from Hella, Bosch, Kamei, Zender, D&W and many
>other German tuners all in stock, all for Audi, VW, BMW, Mercedes etc..
>The catalog is huge, and when you walk into an outlet there, they have
>most of it in the store. I was mesmerized, no, flabbergasted at all the
>parts available. One thing I also noticed, Ron's Parts and others are
>selling the catalog here for like $60, the D&W catalog in Germany was 12
>Marks. The exchange is 1.6 (translation about 8 bucks). It's still worth
>it though.
>
>I warned you
Slowcarfasterbike
93 Passat GLX, 93 Mazda Miata
DoD #2057 (Denizens of Doom)
VPOG #1 (Volkswagen Passat Owners Group)
AAAAA #147 (American Association Against Acronym Abuse)
PwrXvr6
Maybe the better question is, 'what didn't you buy?'
Bill
92 Corrado VR6
CCA/ClubH20/VWEOC
Karl Klatt
Too bad D&W will not sell there products directly to North American
customers. If you phone them up for a part as I did, you will be pass along
to a distributor of D&W's, then the distributor marks up the price. The
reason being that D&W is scared of liability concerns, if someone sues them.
If you do a little searching for what is in the D&W catalogue you will find
better deals in Germany for that same piece.
That brings up the question, why bring over the catalogues???
Too bad, great stuff,
Karl
Walter R. Quitt
Karl Klatt <p...@ultranet.ca> wrote:
>Too bad D&W will not sell there products directly to North American
>customers. If you phone them up for a part as I did, you will be pass along
>to a distributor of D&W's, then the distributor marks up the price. The
>reason being that D&W is scared of liability concerns, if someone sues them.
>If you do a little searching for what is in the D&W catalogue you will find
>better deals in Germany for that same piece.
>
>That brings up the question, why bring over the catalogues???
To get an idea of what's out there. Maybe you could order via Rons,
don't know about that. The titty pictures are OK, too.
Walt...
Torsten Walther
Karl Klatt wrote:
>If you do a little searching for what is in the D&W catalogue you will
find
>better deals in Germany for that same piece.
BTW: In germany the D&W catalogue isn't the best. There are much more
tuner with no stupid labels on every product like the D&W logo and the
quality of their self-produced articels tuning parts also bad.
ciao,
Torsten, Saxonia/Germany
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John Hamill III
Yes, the D&W stuff isn't always the best. But to this American, the store
was pretty impressive!
Maung M. Bu
When I was in Germany, Munchen to be exact, people doesn't know D&W instead
they keep saying O-Tin-Ger........... yeah that is true VW "performance" IF
you can effort it! :^)
Maung
'88 PL 2.0 Scirocco