Most expensive car parts?
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Petrus1983 said:
I seem to recall the McLaren Mercedes SLR had some eye watering costs involved - and also seemed that everytime you touched anything cracking the windscreen could occur too. I know a washer nozzle was £358 so avoid Longleat in one.
Yes, someone I know did work on one and when, eventually MB Goodwood would actually sell the part, the SBC unit was £10,000. He remarked it didn't look wildly different to the same part for an E55.vikingaero said:
I'm sure there are some good comparisons between parts used within the same manufacturers group - for instance a switch used on a Fiat Punto and that same item used on a Ferrari 458.
New battery on my Porsche was $1400 fitted. The same battery was $180 from Audi and $140 from VW. Audi initially refused to sell the battery to me because it was going to blow my car up. I showed them my Porsche battery which had the same VW/Audi label and no sign of Porsche. Fitting does require lifting the drivers seat but not difficult. I had a code reader that can reset the battery already which I bought to diagnose my wife's VW previously. For fun I called Lamborghini and it was $2800 fitted. I did not call Bentley.
I had some work done on my R35 GTR gearbox (a temp sensor failed rendering the box useless) a "while they were in there" circlip replacement - £125 for the circlip.
the difference to the standard circlip is that it is just a little bit thicker...
the line was, we see these fail all the time and if they do you will need new 1, 3 and 5 gearsets.
the difference to the standard circlip is that it is just a little bit thicker...
the line was, we see these fail all the time and if they do you will need new 1, 3 and 5 gearsets.
Mikebentley said:
I was just listening to a Collecting Addicts podcast from last year. Chris Harris said that an oil pump OEM for a Lexus LFA is £85000.00!
What shockingly highly priced car parts do you know of or have you discovered. It can be everything from hyper cars to what would be considered mundane transport for the masses. If the part seems disproportionately expensive post it here.
I’ll sell you one for half the price. What shockingly highly priced car parts do you know of or have you discovered. It can be everything from hyper cars to what would be considered mundane transport for the masses. If the part seems disproportionately expensive post it here.
Ryan_T said:
Mikebentley said:
I was just listening to a Collecting Addicts podcast from last year. Chris Harris said that an oil pump OEM for a Lexus LFA is £85000.00!
What shockingly highly priced car parts do you know of or have you discovered. It can be everything from hyper cars to what would be considered mundane transport for the masses. If the part seems disproportionately expensive post it here.
I’ll sell you one for half the price. What shockingly highly priced car parts do you know of or have you discovered. It can be everything from hyper cars to what would be considered mundane transport for the masses. If the part seems disproportionately expensive post it here.
or someone got the wrong end of the stick
£8-10k for an oil pump is a, this part is out of production / back order and basically out of stock price.
£85k is a mistake
Friend of mine has his Maybach 62 in at Brooklands at the moment. It's been sat for a little bit and requires a few bits and pieces to get it back up running. He's been quoted over £40k to get it right, it's barely worth that on a good day!!
Some of the highlights that I remember is a front strut, they're £11,000 each. And it needs 2 of them... It was locked in Park and needed something in the gear selector, that was nearly £3000. And last year he spent £10k on a new alternator for it
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Some of the highlights that I remember is a front strut, they're £11,000 each. And it needs 2 of them... It was locked in Park and needed something in the gear selector, that was nearly £3000. And last year he spent £10k on a new alternator for it
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