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Originally Posted by bcredliner
BMW reviews parts pricing every month. Some of the increases are reasonable some don't seem to make any sense. I've seen as much as 100% increase from month to month. Part of the reason is the age of our vehicles which decreases the volume demand. Lower volume runs of parts increases the costs substantially. SOP is to increase price of all stock, parts already at the dealers, based on the cost of the short restocking runs.
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This makes sense - I imagine this stuff is just run through a pricing model without any human review, and weird results will ensue in various areas. In some of these cases, I can't imagine they'll sell any of the part until the end of time. Not complaining, BMW does a great job supporting older vehicles (ever try to buy a trim piece for a GM car more the 7-8 years past end of production?). I just found this one particular result quite funny (the $105 1 by one-half inch plastic trim plug).