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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: Varche on 01 February 2024, 19:55:19
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Just been to VW dealer. And looked at S/H cars outside. Saw a nice car for 25,000 euros.
Got quote for two parts. Not including fitting, they were about 1000 euros for the two. I reckon if you bought a car from parts it would be a million pounds. No wonder car insurance has gone up!
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What were the two parts?
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Just been to VW dealer. And looked at S/H cars outside. Saw a nice car for 25,000 euros.
Got quote for two parts. Not including fitting, they were about 1000 euros for the two. I reckon if you bought a car from parts it would be a million pounds. No wonder car insurance has gone up!
Best not get a quote for Matrix LED adaptive headlights like fitted to mine then, you’ll fall off your chair. ;D Some people have paid less for a complete car than it costs for a pair of these headlights. ::)
Based on that, I agree with your way of thinking regarding building a car. :y
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Air con fan and regulator unit. Reversing camera.
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As it is an intermittent fault, I will have
Either a go at swapping it out for a S/h camera
Or get a new part off the net ..
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In the late 40s someone priced up buying all the parts to build there own car as it was hard to get a new one, it was over 3 times the value then!
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On a similar note. About 25 years ago Motorcycle News priced up all the individual parts to build a Kawasaki ZX6r.
Price of a bike was around £6,500 at the time iirc. Price of all the individual parts was around £27,000.
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On a similar note. About 25 years ago Motorcycle News priced up all the individual parts to build a Kawasaki ZX6r.
Price of a bike was around £6,500 at the time iirc. Price of all the individual parts was around £27,000.
Yeah, but Quaka parts always were outrageously priced. I remember paying something like £6.99 each for some (probably) M4 countersunk for the brake reservoir, because I was desperate, and I bet that was over 20 years ago ;D
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On a similar note. About 25 years ago Motorcycle News priced up all the individual parts to build a Kawasaki ZX6r.
Price of a bike was around £6,500 at the time iirc. Price of all the individual parts was around £27,000.
On a similar motorcycle subject, those of us old enough to remember contact breakers (Points) will recall that you needed a set of points per cylinder on the old magneto system. At the time, Yamaha charged over £7 per set of points (Set meaning one contact breaker), so they were quite expensive to an apprentice toolmaker earning not much more than that a week. At the time I knew someone that worked at Lucas, which had offices in the village I grew up in. They cross checked the contact breakers and got me several sets for around 60 pence each. How did the motorcycle dealerships justify such a difference. :-\
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On a similar note. About 25 years ago Motorcycle News priced up all the individual parts to build a Kawasaki ZX6r.
Price of a bike was around £6,500 at the time iirc. Price of all the individual parts was around £27,000.
Yeah, but Quaka parts always were outrageously priced. I remember paying something like £6.99 each for some (probably) M4 countersunk for the brake reservoir, because I was desperate, and I bet that was over 20 years ago ;D
Istr Honda parts were even more expensive. Although theirs tended be of much better quality than the other Jap manufacturers.
Suzuki were particularly bad. Their build quality was always piss poor.
Might be different now, I wouldnt know.
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On a similar note. About 25 years ago Motorcycle News priced up all the individual parts to build a Kawasaki ZX6r.
Price of a bike was around £6,500 at the time iirc. Price of all the individual parts was around £27,000.
Yeah, but Quaka parts always were outrageously priced. I remember paying something like £6.99 each for some (probably) M4 countersunk for the brake reservoir, because I was desperate, and I bet that was over 20 years ago ;D
Istr Honda parts were even more expensive. Although theirs tended be of much better quality than the other Jap manufacturers.
Suzuki were particularly bad. Their build quality was always piss poor.
Might be different now, I wouldnt know.
I was thinking over the weekend, its been almost 11yrs since I last had a bike :(
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Nearly 15 for me ! :o
Still tempted at times, but too old now really.
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The AA used to produce a two inch thick hardback book about driving and all the pitfalls that could become a person operating a car.
On chapter dealt with driving into a puddle that some how became a river and finally a harbour, and I thinking about it afterwards I couldn't help but think "Christ that escalated quickly"... Obviously there are still stretches of road around the place that can obviously swallow a car whole :o
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Nearly 15 for me ! :o
Still tempted at times, but too old now really.
Been over 30 for me. Guy down the road from me offered me a go on his recent acquisition. Not sure i dare now. ;D
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For me its a bit like alcoholism. I think if I got back on one just once, I would be down my local bike shop with credit card in hand. ;D
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Nearly 15 for me ! :o
Still tempted at times, but too old now really.
I remember when I still had the ZX10 talking to tunnie one night over beer and curry, when he was suggesting I should get a newer bike, and I remember telling him that the ZX10 would be my last bike, for self preservation purposes ;D
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For me its a bit like alcoholism. I think if I got back on one just once, I would be down my local bike shop with credit card in hand. ;D
When walking into town, I have to walk past our local bike shop. I have to cross over the other side of the road, as I know if I walk past the door, I'll walk in. And from that point onwards, it's only going to go one way!
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I was thinking over the weekend, its been almost 11yrs since I last had a bike :(
Mine is still in my garage .... its last MOT ran out almost 10 yrs ago :( :( I get it started every now & then and consider putting it on the road, but that's as far as it gets :-\
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