Most expensive simple part ever?
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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 crank arms...
£700.
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
And, yes, £2k will have been for the full g/box i suspect
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....
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....
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 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 crank arms...
£700.
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.
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.
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 crank arms...
£700.
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.
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