Copper grease

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Nobbles

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585 posts

259 months

Monday 5th January 2015
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What's the French equivalent of copper grease and where can I buy it?

emss

82 posts

147 months

Monday 5th January 2015
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Hi,

Copper grease is translated "Graisse au cuivre".
Any semi decent DIY supermarket should have some in stock, automotive parts suppliers (AD and so on) will certainly have.

Éric Masson

Nobbles

Original Poster:

585 posts

259 months

Tuesday 6th January 2015
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Merci, didn't think it would have been as simple as that. I need to pay more attention in Norauto.

Expatloon

215 posts

156 months

Friday 9th January 2015
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Not impressed with the price but hey, this is France !

Better value here:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1-x-500g-COPPER-GREASE-T...

crossy67

1,570 posts

178 months

Friday 9th January 2015
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I was told by an AD employee it's called Anti ceize en cuivre. Might be spelt wrong but hey ho.

v8250

2,724 posts

210 months

Friday 9th January 2015
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Expatloon said:
Not impressed with the price but hey, this is France !
This. I have never understood why so many automotive components and service items are mind blowingly expensive in France; even the 'ventes par correspondance..'

Some 12 years ago I had a catalytic converter go phut. Including VAT and delivery, it was £300 cheaper to have the identical item ordered and sent from the UK to the Alpes. All the local suppliers were of a similar price. To a man, they refused to budge on price, even when told of the identical item and cost from the UK. The answer was 'non, c'est pas possible, monsieur.' They all missed out on a guaranteed sale at sensible profit...it's all just Froglet madness.

paulwirral

3,104 posts

134 months

Friday 9th January 2015
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v8250 said:
Expatloon said:
Not impressed with the price but hey, this is France !
This. I have never understood why so many automotive components and service items are mind blowingly expensive in France; even the 'ventes par correspondance..'

Some 12 years ago I had a catalytic converter go phut. Including VAT and delivery, it was £300 cheaper to have the identical item ordered and sent from the UK to the Alpes. All the local suppliers were of a similar price. To a man, they refused to budge on price, even when told of the identical item and cost from the UK. The answer was 'non, c'est pas possible, monsieur.' They all missed out on a guaranteed sale at sensible profit...it's all just Froglet madness.
I'm pleased I'm not the only one to hear that phrase !

v8250

2,724 posts

210 months

Saturday 10th January 2015
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paulwirral said:
v8250 said:
Expatloon said:
Not impressed with the price but hey, this is France !
This. I have never understood why so many automotive components and service items are mind blowingly expensive in France; even the 'ventes par correspondance..'

Some 12 years ago I had a catalytic converter go phut. Including VAT and delivery, it was £300 cheaper to have the identical item ordered and sent from the UK to the Alpes. All the local suppliers were of a similar price. To a man, they refused to budge on price, even when told of the identical item and cost from the UK. The answer was 'non, c'est pas possible, monsieur.' They all missed out on a guaranteed sale at sensible profit...it's all just Froglet madness.
I'm pleased I'm not the only one to hear that phrase !
Which one? 'non, c'est pas possible, monsieur.' OR 'Froglet madness'...laugh

paulwirral

3,104 posts

134 months

Saturday 10th January 2015
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The not possible . I priced some oak flooring at a timber merchants in sarlat during my build and when I told the guy how much it cost in England I got the not possible speech .
I bought it in England and took it with me , dropped him a sample off with the price list from England . He was honestly amazed .
I also priced an alternator at just under 400 euros and bought it in England for half that .
The wine is cheap though , drink enough of it and it helps you forget how much everything else costs .

v8250

2,724 posts

210 months

Saturday 10th January 2015
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paulwirral said:
The not possible . I priced some oak flooring at a timber merchants in sarlat during my build and when I told the guy how much it cost in England I got the not possible speech .
I bought it in England and took it with me , dropped him a sample off with the price list from England . He was honestly amazed .
I also priced an alternator at just under 400 euros and bought it in England for half that .
The wine is cheap though , drink enough of it and it helps you forget how much everything else costs .
400 euros for an alternator? That's plain crazy.

True, the wine's better priced...but so much more is at much higher cost. I've often wondered when some folk are going to properly grasp the nettle with professional online/web based sales, by-passing their traditional route to markets, and provide identical product at reduced pricing. Or, will these highly successful UK models fall flat on their arses as the French simply do not buy as much online as the UK?

magooagain

9,908 posts

169 months

Saturday 10th January 2015
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I find that the younger French generation are using online sales. But many over 50's just dont even own a computor.

paulwirral

3,104 posts

134 months

Saturday 10th January 2015
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The alternator was for a Nissan cabstar truck , I bought a battery charger and drove carefully instead , not in the dark or using the heater !
Over the 12 years I've been backwards and forwards I can see things changing for the better over there , but only slowly .

rdjohn

6,135 posts

194 months

Sunday 11th January 2015
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Just before Christmas, we had our friendy's 17-year old grandson staying with to try to improve his English for his Bac, this year.

We were having dinner at my mate's house and we were both giving him stick about the state of La France. We reminded him him that ,when we were his age, every student in Paris was tearing up the streets demanding change. He floored us with the statement that he thought France would change - "but not in his lifetime"

thefrog

341 posts

218 months

Tuesday 13th January 2015
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Continuing off topic about silly prices. Had a small electric fire in my Renault 5 in the UK many years ago, a new loom from the renault dealer in the UK was much more expensive than one from french dealers.
Got my parents to get one locally and post it to the UK. The joke was that the loom had been made in Ireland and was still cheaper after going half way around europe than across the irish sea !

Le Pop

4,492 posts

233 months

Tuesday 13th January 2015
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French used car prices = ridiculous. I will never buy one here. I buy mine in the uk and import to France, and I've done eight now in five years.

That is all.