Most expensive simple part ever?

[Slow]

So having fixed it with the used eBay part (stronger than new land rover apparently). I have found these are the weak spot on a remapped td6 Range Rover after just snapping another one while towing. I'm only blocking half a little villages highstreet

[jhonn]

Towing the Roller? Looking forward to seeing some more pics..

Damned unfortunate that it happened to you again - hope you get home OK.

[Xtriple129]

How about a bit of wire, two foot long with a plastic connector on each end, yours for the sum of just.... £124 plus VAT?

I needed two of them....

Or the back window mechanism that broke due to a cheap and shoddy inch long piece of plastic that required a replacment at over £800? I got the same part made, in steel as a one off for £3.

[austinsmirk]

not car related, but push bike related. On a trek Fuel ex 9 (a mountain bike)

crank arms failed: specifically its just one pedal arm, with a length of tube on. on one end, another pedal arm attaches. splines had worn away, failing now to grip one pedal arm/crank.

Oh no sir you can't just buy this, you have to buy the full set of bearings, triple chainset and so on.

that'll be £700.

its just a tube with a splined shaft.


I replaced the set up into shimano. feckin ridiculous is the world of pushbikes and the crap you can bolt to them.

[k-ink]

From another thread, a poster said the screen in an S-Class is actually two small screens behind the trim, costs nearly four grand. Probably comes from China at a cost of bugger all. Makes spare German car keys look cheap.

[k-ink]

austinsmirk said:

trek Fuel ex 9 (a mountain bike)

crank arms...

£700.

This is why I spent ages sourcing brand new old school parts to build a retro MTB. You can keep all that modern over priced stuff (I've been there and done that too). I've found some stunning components for sensible prices: Middleburn, White Industries, XT, lots of simple ruggedness

[strain]

2013 Astra Caliper bolt (1 x 10mm bolt) - £7 before VAT

i paid it too

[anonymous-user]

I love how lots of people, who don't even know the name of a part, let alone what it does (btw, it's a "flexplate", google it to understand it's importance and the subtleties contained in it's apparently simple (to a layman) design) complain that parts are too expensive............ ;-)


And, yes, £2k will have been for the full g/box i suspect

[GroundEffect]

Did someone seriously suggest it get laser cut from sheet? :Eek:

Flex plates have a clear role...no need to hint.

[anonymous-user]

NSX rear suspension arms and ABS pump, reassuringly expensive!

[Ray Luxury-Yacht]

I think I might win this....

A friend of mine had a Honda S2000.....it was an imported JDM car, with an admittedly rare variant of 'VGS' steering system.

These S2000's have an electric power steering rack, made by Showa. The UK cars have an ordinary rack with fixed ratios, the VGS cars have a rack with variable ratios - so as the road speed decreases, the rack's gearing goes up to give the car a more 'go-kart' like ratio.

Looking at the UK racks, there's loads available on Ebay for around £100 second hand. When you compare the UK and VGS racks, there's not much difference between them - the VGS variant has a bigger box on one end, but both use the same motor etc.

Couldn't find anyone in the UK who would rebuild the rack, so....how much is a new one from Honda? Hint: it's made to order and ships from Japan

£13,500. I wouldn't have believed it unless I had seen the printed quote from the main dealer he showed me.

Thirteen and a half thousand pounds....for an electric steering rack. Takes a while to sink in....

[Mr2Mike]

Slow said:

So having fixed it with the used eBay part (stronger than new land rover apparently). I have found these are the weak spot on a remapped td6 Range Rover after just snapping another one while towing. I'm only blocking half a little villages highstreet

Flexplates failing like this suggest something isn't aligned properly. Make sure the alignment dowels in the bellhousing are all present and correct and the mating surfaces are all flat and clean.

[k-ink]

Re: £13.5k Honda steering rack. You win.

[TheFinners]

Drivers window regulator for a MK1 Focus -£38 off Ebay, Hendy Parts wanted £300 for an OEM one. I genuinely did not know what to say when the guy on the phone said they charged that much for them! (I've been a little outdone looking at this thread but it was still a shocker...)

[996TT02]

k-ink said:

austinsmirk said:

trek Fuel ex 9 (a mountain bike)

crank arms...

£700.

This is why I spent ages sourcing brand new old school parts to build a retro MTB. You can keep all that modern over priced stuff (I've been there and done that too). I've found some stunning components for sensible prices: Middleburn, White Industries, XT, lots of simple ruggedness

Lots of modern stuff is very reasonably priced. Trek probably use Bontrager components, nothing special but they sell their bits as they see fit. Otherwise you can buy Shimano or Sram stuff at any price point you desire and except that crap they make for bikes that sell for £100 complete, even at entry level Deore / X5 ranges respectively, they probably work a lot better than any retro stuff.

You can even buy hydraulic disc brake sets for under £50 per end, and there is again no comparison with any retro vee or heaven forbid cantilever brakes.

Crank arms / crank shafts - albeit not at entry level - are also available separately, and with BCDs for the chain rings standardised, you can keep your own.

[Justin S]

Honda again. Set of 4 spark plugs for an S2000 £94 plus vat. A pot of Urea grease for the clutch release bearing 100ml £78. On another note about 6 years ago, we lost the injector pump on our Audi V6 2.5 TDI. Mate stripped it out and Audi wanted.................£6000 for a new one !!. Apparently it needs coding to the immobiliser and everything. We got a cash job at Lucas diesels and still cost a grand to rebuild it and was totally trashed.

[wjwren]

Chap i know had a business in Birmingham, small unit, making the abs sensor for jaguar's back in the 90's. The part cost him £1.86 to make and Jag parts dept sold it to the end user for £180!

[lufbramatt]

996TT02 said:

k-ink said:

austinsmirk said:

trek Fuel ex 9 (a mountain bike)

crank arms...

£700.

This is why I spent ages sourcing brand new old school parts to build a retro MTB. You can keep all that modern over priced stuff (I've been there and done that too). I've found some stunning components for sensible prices: Middleburn, White Industries, XT, lots of simple ruggedness

Lots of modern stuff is very reasonably priced. Trek probably use Bontrager components, nothing special but they sell their bits as they see fit. Otherwise you can buy Shimano or Sram stuff at any price point you desire and except that crap they make for bikes that sell for £100 complete, even at entry level Deore / X5 ranges respectively, they probably work a lot better than any retro stuff.

You can even buy hydraulic disc brake sets for under £50 per end, and there is again no comparison with any retro vee or heaven forbid cantilever brakes.

Crank arms / crank shafts - albeit not at entry level - are also available separately, and with BCDs for the chain rings standardised, you can keep your own.

One of my mates has a trek EX8 (as do I), he cracked part of the rear triangle near the disc brake mount so enquired to get a new one, turns out they didn't have any of that part for his specific frame as at some point some of the bearings changed which meant he would have to replace the whole rear end of the frame. They offered him a discount on an entire new frame (still silly money), he wasn't happy with that so eventually after much tooing and froing they sold him a complete rear end off a more recent frame for 200 quid complete with all the bearings and bolts. Fitted fine only issue is it's a different colour to the front half

[Hooliganism]

458 steering wheel switch. The red one that chases from normal to race mode etc. Stupid expensive. Some Ferrari specialist had his own ones made for literally a few quid each