spare parts prices

Nekarsulm

What's the most outrageous price you have been charged for a simple looking part?
Got this today. 40 euro plus an amazing 26 to a courier.....:(

zetecescort

Was quoted €500 from a New Holland dealer (usually good for older stuff in fairness) for an exhaust elbow for a 76 Ford 7600. Went to the local steel merchants and bought an elbow and a 6 inch off cut of pipe and made it myself.

TheBody

Nekarsulm wrote: »

What's the most outrageous price you have been charged for a simple looking part?
Got this today. 40 euro plus an amazing 26 to a courier.....:(

€40 isn't a bad price for a guitar! :pac:

have2flushtwice

The pump on the sprayer for the quad is gone.
I've been assing around and finally picked up the phone today.

I rang Connaught Agri, a 12V that can move 4.4gals per minute is 220 plus vat!!!
id buy a new tank and lance and pump for less than that!
fair enough its a good pump, but its not worth that price!!

http://www.connachtagri.ie/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=vmj_naru.tpl&product_id=265&category_id=10&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=6


Rant over!

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ok now i'm getting wise.
the pump above is 4.4 gals per minute.
the pump below is larger, at 5.5 GPM
Connaught-agri are 260+vat = almost 300 Euro.
Amazon is 149.56+3.50= 153.06 delivered, (incl 3.50 for parcel motel to send it down here from the north -add in 3.50)

http://www.amazon.com/NorthStar-Series-On-Demand-Diaphragm-Pump/dp/B00BJ2H5RE/ref=pd_sim_sbs_lg_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=1NK40Q2DQM4SC175KGVN

http://www.connachtagri.ie/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=vmj_naru.tpl&product_id=264&category_id=10&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=6


ive no dislike for CA by the way, its just thatI need to get a pump and the markup is mad.

Reggie.

Strange timing but just after having hassle getting parts for the tedder. Waiting 7 days for a dealer to ring me with the prices for the parts. I eventually rang the main office in dublin yesterday and complained.

After 7 days of silence and run around I had 5 missed calls from the dealer by 10am this morning with all the prices I needed. Amazing what a little pressure from the higher management can do :rolleyes:

onyerbikepat

Nekarsulm wrote: »

What's the most outrageous price you have been charged for a simple looking part?
Got this today. 40 euro plus an amazing 26 to a courier.....:(

Might be the time to get out that guitar and write yourself a sad song.:D

Muckit

Which end do you stick it in?

blue5000

Spare parts are a rip off in this country, somebody tried to charge me €50 for a plough point last year.

Has anyone ever been genuinely surprised by how cheap something was? I broke a glass door on a fiat cab last autumn and it was about €120 + vat, which was way less than I thought it was going to be, off Shaws in Portumna.

Bullocks

Not strictly spare parts but I had to get a few non return valves for sewer pipes today , €185 each for literally 10" of pipe with a flap inside it ! A 2" saddle for a 6" pipe and a few fittings was nearly €250 euro . Fcuking daylight robbery .
Whats worse is I'm fitting them in a basement full of rats and all the offices upstairs are using the jacks while we are cutting the pipes and fitting them

Reggie.

Bullocks wrote: »

Not strictly spare parts but I had to get a few non return valves for sewer pipes today , €185 each for literally 10" of pipe with a flap inside it ! A 2" saddle for a 6" pipe and a few fittings was nearly €250 euro . Fcuking daylight robbery .
Whats worse is I'm fitting them in a basement full of rats and all the offices upstairs are using the jacks while we are cutting the pipes and fitting them

Very tasty :eek:

Nekarsulm

Muckit wrote: »

Which end do you stick it in?

Don't tell anyone, but it's really for SUTO enemas. ......

have2flushtwice

I needed an air pipe for my old pass.at, main dealer was 110 plus vat
Got one in a breakers yard and week later for ten euro.

orm0nd

was quoted €110 +vat +delivery , for a pipe , from a company in Cork beginning with A

same pipe in the door from NI €48 all in (enchange rate was better than now , but still)

tomwaterford

cousin of mine....once got a little button thing for a cs78 I think it was xost e400....ridicolus for what it was

lab man

couple a yrs ago the 540 spline broke on the renault went to main dealer 250 e was at another renault dealer a fer days later an just asked what price was same part in a plastic bag with oil in it to stop it rusting plus the 6 bolts 70 e now figure that one out,

Muckit

blue5000 wrote: »

Spare parts are a rip off in this country, somebody tried to charge me €50 for a plough point last year.

Has anyone ever been genuinely surprised by how cheap something was? I broke a glass door on a fiat cab last autumn and it was about €120 + vat, which was way less than I thought it was going to be, off Shaws in Portumna.

Did you price m hogan?

Reggie.

Muckit wrote: »

Did you price m hogan?

New Holland?

blue5000

Muckit wrote: »

Did you price m hogan?

No, I know the storeman in Portumna fairly well, it was a sparex part I got.