Went to order a replacement turbo oil return pipe for my RS Turbo today from my local ford dealer. Fuck me dead if they didn't want £61.73 for it!!!! For a 3 inch bit of rubber piping????!!! It wants to be made of bloody gold for that price. Needless to say I left there only ordering the spring clips to hold it in place!! Anyone else have any stories of massively inflated prices?

 

One lonely hub nut on the rear of a focus, £12 each WTF for a nut!!!

 

What ever happened to Fords being cheap run arounds? I got stung on a heater matrix pipe for my fiesta 1.25 runaround.Went to euro car parts who said it was a ford main dealer only part. Mr Fords price?.......£36.40 to you sir. Where the fuck is ford getting their rubber from? the moon?!!

 

New bleed valves for brake calipers(or what's it called) cost 55NOK(~£5,5) at the local ford. The small ones you use when you bleed the brakes.

I was like

Went to the local parts dealer and got them for 11NOK(~£1,1)

Then I was like

Btw, this thread made me giggle

 

They have a habit of bumping up the prices mate especially for the older cars, RS's and the like

I bought a rad for my cossie when I first bought it about 8 years ago, £190, now they are asking £240 for the same part

piggin liberty


Luciano

 

To be fair, it cost money to stock old items like that.

 

not o mention the parts getting rarer so they can quite happily hike the price up.

 

i used a bit of lined braided hose i got from a show for my return pipe.. cost £8 lol

 

Yeah but still £61 for a bit of pipe? Per lease