When is the best time of the year to buy parts?

[Fuzion]

Has anybody noticed any trends as to when parts are cheaper throughout the year?
I’m in the process of gathering parts for my new combo and noticed that summit just raised their prices…

 

[SVT32VDOHC]

I noticed that all parts go down right when a newer Mustang comes out. When the 05 GT started selling, all the 5.0L parts got cheaper, I don't know why, because 5.0L have been gone since 1995. Wheels have gone down in price every calander year. Also, in 2004, dealers around here pushed 03 and 04 Cobras off their lot.....26K for a coupe, 29.5K for a vert!!!!!!!!!! I should have bought 3!!!! hehe....they sell for more than that used!!! They moved them off the lot to make way for the 05 GT's

 

[Fuzion]

I hope they are coming out with a new stang soon...
Im planning on buying a tfs engine kit... in april it cost around $2150.00, today i checked and it's almost at $2500.00 plus shipping. Sucks! my modding is going to have to wait a little longer.

 

[91 HATCH]

summit has been raising prices for about a year now

 

[85_SS_302_Coupe]

You'd think prices go up when it's nice out and go down in the winter...but then people do a lot of build ups and buy a lot of parts in the winter....so that's a good question.

The only trend i've ever seen is EXPENSIVE and it never really changes

 

[grey5.0beast]

I hope they are coming out with a new stang soon...
Im planning on buying a tfs engine kit... in april it cost around $2150.00, today i checked and it's almost at $2500.00 plus shipping. Sucks! my modding is going to have to wait a little longer.

Easiest way to do it is google the TFS kit and sift through the millions of ads until you find the cheapest one. Summit has price beat guarantee so just do some searching

 

[wythors]

Generally, the margins that the big internet catalog sites run on is pretty thin for the "name brand" stuff. That's why you see so few deviations in price from vendor to vendor and why you never see them having sales. That said, I lucked out when we went to Reno for Hot August Nights a couple of weeks ago. I visited Summit for the first time and they had everything in the store 10% for the week of HAN. I picked up a King Cobra clutch kit for $162.

 

[cenok is family]

summit has been raising prices for about a year now

i've noticed that!

 

[Mustang5L5]

The best time of year is when they are in season

 

[LS-what?]

IMHO the best time to buy parts is right around christmas (got all my wolfe susp. for 20% off) and sunday afternoon @ any NMRA race..LOL

later

 

[302RollinHard]

being that most of the parts we are interested in are made of metal, and price of metals has been increasing steadily for quite a while, it ain't gonna get any better.

 

[Wallzy]

After tax season, refunds don't last long.

 

[Turkey Sammich]

After tax season, refunds don't last long.

That's what I was thinking, but then you have a higher risk of things going on backorder.

 

[Fuzion]

Easiest way to do it is google the TFS kit and sift through the millions of ads until you find the cheapest one. Summit has price beat guarantee so just do some searching

How does this work? is summit really strick about checking up on dealers and sites?

Anybody have experiance with this?
thanks'

 

[ram360]

The best time of year is when they are in season

it's not like he's buying watermelons......

 

[Boss 351]

whenever I have money is a good time to buy parts.

 

[91 HATCH]

whenever I have money is a good time to buy parts.

+1 for me too buy the parts when the money is right!

 

[Fuzion]

+1 for me too buy the parts when the money is right!

I feel where u guys are coming from. but, if i can hold off modding and get more for my money later on... makes more sense to me.

Anybody know the steps i gotta take with summit to use price match?

 

[HaynStang]

summit has been raising prices for about a year now

I browse their print catalog all the time and it seems that they've been steadily raising prices on a lot of stuff ever since I got my stang in '04.