What we know about buying parts here, written down

Every guide either answers a question from our own catalogue data or carries a judgement a named person stands behind. Each one shows when it was last re-read. Nothing here is published because a search term exists.

Buying parts in Dubai

How the local market actually works — who holds stock, why the same part has three prices, and what a quote leaves out.

Why the same part costs AED 300 at one Dubai shop and 1,400 at another

Not a scam, and not usually a difference in the part. A short account of how the local parts market is actually structured, and what to ask before you pay.

7 min · re-read 2026-09-11 (16 days ago)

Who makes what

Whether a brand is the same part as the carmaker sells, and how to tell. The questions the interchange graph can answer.

Is Denso the same part as a Toyota original?

Often yes, sometimes not, and the difference is checkable rather than a matter of opinion. Here is how to tell, for the part in your hand.

6 min · re-read 2026-09-11 (16 days ago)

By symptom

A noise, a pull, a warning light — and which part it points at before you spend money.

Nothing published in this section yet. We would rather leave it empty than fill it.

Choosing a grade

What you give up moving down a grade, stated plainly, per category.

Nothing published in this section yet. We would rather leave it empty than fill it.

Service intervals

What a schedule says, and what 45 °C and sand do to it that the manual does not mention.

Nothing published in this section yet. We would rather leave it empty than fill it.

2 guides published. A guide unchecked for 180 days is re-read or taken down: a technical claim that quietly went stale is worse than no claim, because the reader cannot tell.