And that's fine, if the question was purely how much it costs "off the shelf". But the fact it was supplied and fitted at the side of the road by a breakdown company is more than pertinent to the question of cost.

Like I said, if the RAC man came out, handed our chap a box with an alternator and left, and THAT cost him £330, then hes been ripped off. You could then easily compare that the price you'd pay if you walked into a Ford maindealer, or motorfactors, and bought the same alternator off the shelf and left with it in the box.

But neither of those scenarios is what actually happened.....