Park Control

Ever increasing levels of impact protection in modern vehicle design have tended to lead to larger roof pillars, more restricted views and an increase in blind spots. Fitting parking sensors can help to alleviate these issues by warning the driver how close they are to another vehicle or object using sensors positioned on the vehicle.

Parking sensors can be fitted to the front, rear, or both ends of the vehicle and can be colour coded to blend discreetly into the bumpers. Depending on vehicle and budget, we can offer 2 or 4 sensor units with a 7 stage audible warning, which indicates the distance with a pitch changing and volume adjustable warning tone. We can also offer similar systems with front and rear camera options, allowing a remote view whilst manouvering.

Prices start from just £180.00 inc.VAT for fully fitted and colour coded sensors. For more information, please call us on 01223 227015.

The Witter Range Includes New Type Approved Adjustable Height Couplings.

If you’re adding a tow bar as an accessory on a new car, or pricing up an original equipment tow bar from a main dealer’s parts department, the price quoted can often be quite a nasty surprise. Purchasing an aftermarket alternative towbar can often represent a substantial cost saving and needn’t mean compromising on quality.

For local customers in the Cambridge area, we can offer great deals on Witter branded towbars – often as much as 50% off retail price and an even greater saving when compared to an original equipment bar.

Witter Towbars are some of the best quality bars on the market, coming from a manufacturer with over half a century’s experience. Using the latest 3D CAD systems, Witter’s fully qualified engineers design products to fit all major vehicle manufacturers’ specified attachment points. Witter towbars are manufactured from high strength structural steel plate, tube and section material and shaped into components using the very latest production techniques and processes.

So confident are Witter in the quality of their product that they even offer a Lifetime Guarantee against material or manufacturing defects on all of their towbars.

Quality Tow Bar Fitting In Cambridge – Lifetime Labour Warranty

A tow bar can only ever be as good as its fitting, so choosing the right company for installation is of major importance. Unfortunately, some suppliers follow a high volume, fast fitting philosophy, placing their installation technicians under significant time pressure, inevitably leading to corners being cut.

Our installation department prides itself on quality of service, ensuring that your towbar installation is carried out in a neat, efficient, professional and, most importantly, safe manner. In the same way that Witter have absolute confidence in their product, we’re so confident in the quality of our installation service that we match their level of service by guaranteeing all installations for as long as you own the vehicle.

We can now offer towbars for the majority of vehicles on the road and can usually book an installation within a few days of your initial enquiry, so why not call us today on 01223 227015 for a quote?

As the nation looks forward to the 2012 Olympics, up to 3,000 runners are expected to pound the city’s streets and green spaces on the 13.1-mile route. The start line will be situated on Victoria Avenue and the course takes in some of Cambridge’s beautiful landmarks, including the River Cam and Kings College before crossing over the finish line onto Midsummer Common.

We’re pleased to announce that Discount Autoparts’ Trading Director Alex Howard will be amongst the runners. We’d like to take this opportunity to wish Alex and all the other runners the best of luck with the race, which is likely to raise a significant sum of money for Cancer Research UK.

We’d like to take this opportunity to say a big thank you to all our customers who took the time to vote for us in the competition.

We now await the outcome of the competition, with the winner to be announced at an awards ceremony at Twickenham on Friday 3rd Feb.

This winter, don’t wait until it’s too late – vist us for a FREE battery and alternator test. Our diagnostic equipment can test all lead acid, AGM, sealed and Calcium batteries, highlighting any potential faults which may be developing. We can also test your vehicle’s alternator to  ensure that it can cope with the demands of winter.

Whilst you’re visiting, why not check out our great range of winter products; everything from screen wash and de-icer to jump leads, battery chargers, Silicon upgraded wiper blades and super bright headlight bulbs.

Designed for passing through a plug hole or port to inspect engine internals, Ring’s RBS50 plugs into a USB equipped laptop or PC (Windows XP, ME, 2000,Vista, 7), giving a view on the PC screen from it’s flexible remote camera head.

As well as live video, you can capture an image; great for mechanics to show damage to a customer after inspection, or for emailing whilst a job’s in progress. The unit even comes with a magnetic pickup tool for recovering lost nuts, washers, etc, a mirror for accessing even more obscure angles and a handy hanging tool.

Priced at £49.99, the RBS50 is great value for money and also useful for DIY around the home, checking blocked drains, cable routing under floorboards or in cavity walls, etc.

Wiper Blades

Probably one of the most fundamentally important parts on a vehicle when it comes to safe, clear driver visibility, all too often wiper blades get neglected until they’re beginning to fall apart.

In winter conditions, deteriorating wiper rubbers go hard, screeching and scraping their way across the windscreen, whilst failing to work in the effective manner they should.

Here at DAP, we stock a wide array of quality Valeo wiper blades to fit all common applications, including the newer style flat, flexi blades first seen on Audis and increasingly fitted to newer vehicles.

Headlight Bulbs

Dark winter nights can make for a miserable driving experience. Brighten it up with upgraded headlight bulbs!

Over recent years, bulb manufacturers have made major advances in improving the output of the humble light bulb thanks to Xenon gas and advanced filament technologies.

We stock a wide range of road legal, ‘E’ approved upgrade bulbs from Ring and Osram. These can dramatically improve the light output of your existing headlights; for the ultimate upgrade, ask in store about Ring XenonUltima, which can upgrade your standard headlights by up 120%!

Winter Essentials

If, like us, the first big frost of the season caught you off guard and saw you frantically searching your car for anything vaguely resembling de-icer or an ice scraper, why not pay us a visit and stock up on those winter essentials. We stock value and premium deicers, ice scrapers and screen wash to stop your washer jets icing up on cold mornings.

We also stock products you might not have considered before now, such as frost protection windscreen covers.

Rather than spending time scraping and spraying your screen on cold winter mornings, why not cover it up the night before, then simply remove the cover and drive the next morning. With prices starting from just £3.99, a windscreen cover can also save money over the course of a long winter, as well as being more environmentally friendly, removing the need for endless cans of de-icer, or long periods sat by the roadside with the engine running, waiting for the heater to start working.

Everything else!

Whatever you need for winter driving, we’re likely to keep it in stock, from Snow Chains to snow shovels, road salt, emergency car kits and much, much more. Visit us today, whether it’s for those driving essentials, or a Christmas stocking filler for any driver.

Here at Discount Autoparts, we’ve won the prestigious “Retailer of the Year” award on three separate occasions. This year, for the first time in a number of years, we’re entering again, so need the support of our valued customers in helping to achieve this aim.

Winning this award would help us attract free publicity as well as the prestige of the title itself, which all helps in the current tough economic climate so, if you can spare a few minutes, we’d really appreciate your vote, which can be entered by visiting the following page:

http://www.catmag.co.uk/cat-awards-2012-vote-now

You can find us under section 3. Once you’ve cast your vote, please ensure that you click the “Submit your votes” button, which is slightly hard to find tucked away between sections 7 & 8.

With thanks in advance to everyone who takes the time to vote for us.

Poorboy's Car Care

Manufactured in the USA and widely acclaimed within the modification and tuning world, Poorboy’s range include a wide array of products for general paint care, as well as specialist products for enhancing and protecting paint finishes, wheels and interiors.

Lining up beside Meguiars, AutoGlym and CarPlan products, Poorboy’s makes a great addition to our range, helping to further reinforce our position as Cambridge’s leading supplier of car care products for every budget.

Trailers and Towing

We offer our customers a wide range of towing products and trailers from the leading brands within the marketplace.

Towbars

We supply Witter towbars which are the UK’s leading towbar manufacturer. This brand has the highest standards of design, quality, safety and security for motorists.

For applications not covered by Witter’s range, we can also offer high quality tow bars from Brink and A1 towing, as well as original equipment style Land Rover tow bars from Bearmach.We also provide a fitting service at an extremely competitive price. Please contact us today for a quote.

Trailers

We now stock a range of Maypole general purpose leisure trailers. There are 3 different sizes in the range, all ideal for camping trips, trips to the tip, car boot sales etc. They are designed for easy storage with recessed rear lights allowing you to store the trailer upright in your garage or shed etc. All come with add-on accessories such as covers and high side mesh kits.

Other Towing Accessories

• Mirrors
• Towballs
• Lighting boards
• 7 Pin sockets and plugs
• 7 Core cable