Cost of ignition coils

[05biggray]

2013 R1200RT Having a hard time wrapping my head around the big difference in the cost of coils.
OEM 229.99 aftermarket 25.00
Are the cheep ones any good ? Are the 229.00 ones that much better.
Has anyone used The cheep ones?
Thanks all

 

[88bmwjeff]

Euro Motoelectrics and Beemer Boneyard both sell aftermarket coils. While they are a lot less expensive than OEM, they are a quite a bit more expensive than the cheap ones you noted. They both sell reliable parts and have great customer service.

https://www.euromotoelectrics.com/category-s/1754.htm

https://www.beemerboneyard.com/coils.html

There are probably other companies, but these are the only ones I'm aware of.

 

[pauls1150]

No experience with "$25 coils" other than for a car, but I cannot believe that they would be anything but low-quality knock-offs. And that's only if the ad isn't just another scam from someplace that doesn't really exist.

At $100 from EME, I might buy a spare just to have it on hand!

 

[scottdcarson]

If you fish around, you can find Borg Warner Europe (BERU) stick coils (made in Belgium) for something like 50 euros. But the catches are: the shipping isn't cheap, they take a month to get here, and who knows what the import duty will be on any given day now that the de minimis exemption is a thing of the past? If you look carefully, you'll see that EME sells those same coils. By the time all's said and done, ordering from EME is a sure thing, and it's still half the price of the BMW-branded coils.

I'm going to take a completely unfounded, wild guess and say that BMW is also selling those same European products, just marking them up 4x.