As the Australian online retailer with the best quality drink bottles range in the market place, one thing we pride ourselves on is providing replacement spare parts for the products in our store when they're available. Sometimes the decision on whether to stock a brand will lie with whether or not you can replace a lid, a straw or a mouthpiece when you lose something, break something or wear something out. Here's a run down on the major players and the pieces that are readily replaced.

Stainless Steel Water Bottles

The major player in this category is Klean Kanteen. Their bottles come with two different width lid systems, the Wide Mouth and the Classic. Replacement lids are available for the full range, including BPA Sports Lids, screw lids made from either bpa free plastic or full stainless steel. You can also get sippy lids for kids in the Classic range. While you can get a 355ml kids bottle with the lid as a part of the bottle, you can also purchase the lid on its own and place it on a larger bottle. You can also buy a sippy bottle and upgrade your lid to a sports cap when your child grows out of the sippy lid. While we know there are cheaper options in the marketplace, this is the first stainless steel water bottle ever made, and their quality is still so strong that they offer a lifetime warranty on manufacturing defects on their bottles. Plastic lids are a consumable item and do need replacing periodically.

The Beautiful Beaches Bottles come with just a screw lid, and while we don't sell the lids as a listed item in our store, we can get them from the supplier if you lose one.

One of the biggest things we get asked for with spare parts for bottles is from Thermos. While we don't have spares in our store anymore, Thermos Australia do sell replacement straws and lids and a handful of other accessories directly. So while we can't supply these to you directly, they are available.

Glass Water Bottles

One of the risks with buying a glass water bottle is 'what happens when you drop it'. Regardless of whether it has a silicone sleeve wrapped around it or not, if you drop one high enough or full enough, they're going to break. For a long time, the most popular glass water bottles in our store have been from Lifefactory. As much as we have asked and begged with the Australian distributors, we just can't get replacement bottles for these. Once they break, you have a silicone sleeve and a lid you can't do anything with. We can get spare lids so you can swap, but we can't get the bottles. We've tried. Multiple times.

Hot on the heels of Lifefactory is the Beautiful Beaches glass bottles. We have fabulous news. We now have replacement glass for these. You can purchase both the 570ml and the 750ml replacement glass if you break one. Since these bottles come with a neoprene pouch, if you're unlucky to drop one and it breaks, everything should stay inside the pouch. You can carefully pull out the broken pieces and replace the glass.

We will have a new brand in store by the end of October that looks quite similar to the Lifefactory, but the silicone sleeves have a thick shockproof base on them. I have seen one dropped from 6 feet landing on the base and the bottle didn't break. They'll give you a little extra 'oops' coverage, but the glass still is breakable, so you should still be careful with them.

Camelbak

We have an extensive range of spare parts available for the Camelbak range. The most common replacement part needed for a Camelbak bottle is replacement bite valves. They're available for the Eddy Bottles and the Eddy Kids bottles (and the valves are different between the adults & kids bottles) in 4 packs or in a 2 pack with replacement straws too. While this brand also has a lifetime warranty on manufacturing defects, if you break a lid, or let one get dirty beyond cleaning, we sell new lids for the Podium bottles and also the Eddy and the Eddy Kids bottles. While other stores will make you buy a whole new bottle, we're happy to help you replace a lid and keep getting some more use out of your original purchase, whether you bought it from us or not.

If you're ever having trouble finding the right spare parts for your bottle, either check the GOES WELL WITH section on the product or drop us an email and we'll help you choose the right one.