Most expensive car parts?
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e-honda said:
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
£40 something for a gearbox drain seal washer on a FN2 Civic type r was one of my favourites. Apparently a minimum order of 20 and they wanted me to buy all of them. Same washers for most Honda's, so they must have them in or would have used them if they did, but workshop and parts couldn't share stock apparently. Shame I can't name the main dealer involved.
£800+ for a single driveshaft for the same car was good too. I went for a pattern part for that one.
£800+ for a single driveshaft for the same car was good too. I went for a pattern part for that one.
Mikebentley said:
Not my mistake that was the figure quoted by Mr Harris £85k!
Yeah but it's almost certainly a mistake, either they made a mistake and got the wrong price, or someone setting the price made a mistake or some sort of computer error.It's a quarter of the price of the car
e-honda said:
Mikebentley said:
Not my mistake that was the figure quoted by Mr Harris £85k!
Yeah but it's almost certainly a mistake, either they made a mistake and got the wrong price, or someone setting the price made a mistake or some sort of computer error.It's a quarter of the price of the car
That’s right. We used to sell oem spec Micronair filters to some Aston dealers about 10-12 years back. They were ordered in bulk as Mazda spec and sold to Aston, being identical. I think from memory the 911 cabin filters also fit a Peugeot 405 or 406, did the same on them too. Cabin filters are crazy expensive for certain models but many cross platforms and brands.
murphyaj said:
Not a lot in absolute terms, but crazy for what it is. Aston Martin once tried to charge me £125 for a cabin air filter. It's not a bespoke Aston item though, it's shared with the Mazda RX-8 and you can pick them up for £15.
Edited by S8QUATTRO on Monday 29th April 20:17
murphyaj said:
Not a lot in absolute terms, but crazy for what it is. Aston Martin once tried to charge me £125 for a cabin air filter. It's not a bespoke Aston item though, it's shared with the Mazda RX-8 and you can pick them up for £15.
I was once looking for a starter motor for a 3.0 V6 Jaguar (the Ford Duratec version, not the 8 cylinder with 2 blanked off). I was told at the motor factor's counter (remember those), as he winked very obviously, what I really wanted was a starter motor for a 2.5 Mondeo. He informed me that the same part had three very different prices depending whether the purchaser stated it was for a Ford, a Jag or a Noble M12.ETA. When I changed the crusty rear subframe on my XF for a self-refurbed one, the new bushes I got from the USA. Even after delivery costs, import duty and VAT they were half the price of what I would have paid for them from a UK dealership (probably because they are made in the US and shared with several cars using Ford platforms).
Edited by Evercross on Monday 29th April 20:39
It's not up there with a £10k oil pump, or the dual-SBC system on a Maybach, but the E and S-based AMGs have/had brake discs costing £1k each for just regular steel discs.
I replaced the fancy door mirror glass on my E500 and I'm sure that the NOS I found in the Baltic states was nearly £300, just for the glass. Amused those who would have just got a Halfords sticky back special.
I replaced the fancy door mirror glass on my E500 and I'm sure that the NOS I found in the Baltic states was nearly £300, just for the glass. Amused those who would have just got a Halfords sticky back special.
Ceramic brake discs are a common one
Eg McLaren front brake disc, £2,617.15
https://www.litchfieldmotors.com/shop/mclaren/570s...
except that's one disc. So if you do a set on track, that's £10k for all four corners, plus new pads, plus fitting - one expensive trackday! (Advice is to keep an eye on tyre temperatures on the dash and back off when they get too hot to avoid cooking the brakes).
The P1 front clamshell was mentioned above, the hybrid battery is a similar price of about £120k I think. The worst thing is if you leave the car not plugged in, or plugged in but the mains power goes out and the charger trips, you can ruin the battery by letting it get and stay discharged. Hence why SSO sold his.
£55k for a Mercedes hardtop https://rmsothebys.com/auctions/p123/lots/n0472-me...
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