About Pro Suzuki Spares — Who You Are Dealing With
Plenty of parts websites never tell you whose shelf the part comes off. This one does. Every Suzuki spares enquiry sent through these pages lands at Sparesboyz on Chris Hani Road in Briardene — a working counter in Durban North that you can walk into.
A Counter, Not a Call Centre
The enquiries on this site are handled by Sparesboyz, on Chris Hani Road in Briardene. John Hunt and Paul Shannon have been in business together since 1988, first under other names — Merbeda for Mercedes, then Volksie, then Beemer — with the Sparesboyz name itself arriving in 2004. The short version is that the people answering the phone have been doing this since before most of the cars we are asked about were designed.
Suzuki is one of twelve makes they list, alongside BMW, Honda, Mercedes, Hyundai, Kia, Jeep, Land Rover, Renault, Citroen, Volvo and Peugeot. That is worth saying plainly rather than dressing up: this is not a Suzuki-only operation, and the sign over the door does not say Suzuki. What it does mean is that a marque which usually gets treated as an afterthought at a general counter gets its own front door here, and someone who already knows how to chase an unusual part.
So here is the promise, and it is deliberately a modest one: send us a Suzuki part and we will go and look for it properly. Sometimes it is on the shelf in Briardene. Often it comes through the yards, strippers and importers a business of this age accumulates — their own figure is a database of more than 12,000 potential suppliers worldwide. Either way you get a real answer on price and availability, and you get it quickly.
We cover the range sold in this country, from the small hatchbacks through the compact SUVs to the seven-seaters and the workhorses — the full Suzuki model list is worth a look before you write. You can collect from the counter or ask us to send it — the areas we take enquiries from are listed, and the carriage is quoted with the part rather than sprung on you at the end.
At a glance
- Trading as
- Sparesboyz, part of the Sparesboyz Group
- Where
- 89 Chris Hani Road, Briardene, Durban North
- In the trade
- Partners in business together since 1988
- Under the Sparesboyz name
- Since 2004
- Supplier network
- A database of 12,000+ potential suppliers worldwide
- Makes handled
- Twelve, Suzuki among them
Every figure on this page comes from Sparesboyz' own published information or is verifiable at the counter. There are no invented numbers here, and where we could not check something we left it out rather than estimating it.
This Is Where Your Part Comes From
Not a stock photo of somebody else's warehouse. This is the Briardene shop, the counter and the yard — the address at the bottom of this page.
What We Promise, and What We Will Not Claim
Most parts sites only publish the left-hand column. The right-hand one is the more useful of the two, so it is here in the same size type.
What we will do
- We will identify your car properly before anyone quotes a number.
- We will search our own shelves first, then the yards, strippers and importers we deal with.
- We will tell you whether you are being quoted new, aftermarket or used — every time, without being asked.
- We will quote the courier cost with the part, not after you have committed.
- We will give you a straight no if the part cannot be had at a sane price.
What we will never tell you
- That every Suzuki part ever made is sitting in Durban waiting for you.
- That we have a branch on your doorstep. The counter is in Briardene, and there is one more in Cape Town. That is the lot.
- That we are appointed, approved or endorsed by Suzuki. We are an independent importer and a non-authorised dealer, and our own signage says so.
- A delivery time we cannot control — the courier network decides that, not us.
- A blanket warranty figure. Warranty depends on the part, and it goes on your quote in writing.
Six Rules We Do Not Bend
These are not values on a poster. They are the specific decisions that separate a good parts transaction from the kind that ends with the wrong bracket in a courier bag.
The VIN goes first
Nothing gets priced off a nameplate alone. Suzuki has run more than one shape of the same model at the same time, and facelifts changed lamps and trim without changing the badge. Reading the VIN first is the cheapest step in the process and the one that saves the most money.
Used means used
A second-hand part is described as what it is — where it came off, what condition it is in, what it will and will not do. Cleaned up and ready to fit, not dressed up as new. You should never be surprised by what comes out of the box.
Three prices, one part
Most jobs can be done with a genuine part, a decent aftermarket equivalent or a good used item, and the gap between them can be enormous. You get told which is which, and which one we would fit ourselves.
A straight no is still an answer
Some parts for some years genuinely cannot be got in this country at a sane price. When that is the case you will be told so quickly, rather than left hanging on a promise while your car sits on a lift.
We look under the other badge too
Several Suzukis are sold here wearing a Toyota badge — the Starlet is a rebadged Baleno, the Starlet Cross the twin of the Fronx. And Suzuki shares engines across nameplates more than most marques, so a donor car does not have to wear the badge on your boot.
The shelf is not the whole story
Sparesboyz have been in the parts trade since 1988 and describe a database of more than 12,000 potential suppliers worldwide. That matters on a marque like Suzuki, where the awkward parts are the ones nobody local has on a shelf. When it is not here, the network is what gets asked next.
Where we are
89 Chris Hani Road, Briardene
Durban North, KwaZulu-Natal
Phone the desk
031 943 9999
Mon–Thu 8:00AM - 5:00PM · Fri 8:00AM - 4:00PM · Sat 8:30AM - 12:00PM
Send a photo of the VIN
Fastest way to get a part identified
Right — What Is It You Need?
Model, year and the part. Or just the VIN and a description of what the car is doing. It costs you nothing to ask and there is no obligation at the other end of it.