expensive parts.

my niece has got bought a new vw polo windscreen wiper arm for her n reg polo. (after some moron twisted it off)
guess the price?
40 quid! ffs!

what spare part have you bought, thats mad you feckin mad?



(and i mean expensive for a bit of tin etc...)

7 years ago I left the front panel for the radio-cassette in my Escort GTi (it was a company car alright!) in a hotel room in Munich. Piece of plastic with 4 big Fisher-Price style buttons, made by Motorola.

Ford main Dealer for a replacement was £70!!!!!

yer should have gone to euro car parts ormus, they are only £6:99

i will tell her on xmas day.
itll make her day.

Aye good plan... it will make her day...

... make her cry more like. dont people shop around anymore? or just accept the 1st price they are told?

On the subject of windyscreen wipers, when the blades need replacing why do people ever buy the whole kit & caboodle? I've only ever bought the blade refill thangs & they ain't exactly rocket science to fit. Don't get it.

Ere' Ormus, good of your neice not to do what most people seem to do these days which is go & nick the bit you want off of some other beggars motor!

ill tell her that. but she maybe thinking bout it next it happens!

How about £569 for a new Alternator for my Renault.

what????

i assume that was a typo, ffs what sort of renault yer got, i only paid 275 fer one for a 44 tonne wagon

what do you expect if you buy a frog motor?
up until a few years ago, they were only fitting 3 wheek nuts ffs!

Was quoted £170 for a new aerial by a Toyota main dealer once... can't remember my exact reply but it had an awful lot of minimaning minimans in it.

Similarly... £30 each fer the stud bolts and nuts to hold the turbo to the manifold - if you reckon French is expensive, try Japanese!

yella disco said:

what????

i assume that was a typo, ffs what sort of renault yer got, i only paid 275 fer one for a 44 tonne wagon

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Vel Satis with 3.0V6 Diesel. |No typo £569. Still in shock.

My friend's Ferrari 360 F1 had failure of the F1 actuator.
The part cost was.....wait for it.....£15,000.

He complained to Maranello (UK distributor) but the reply from Ferrari was basically that the system was a copy of their F1 race car transmission, and in that car the part cost £150,000. So they considered that the price of £15,000 was "reasonable"