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A fellow member in an Australian M-B forum recently priced a distributor cap from an authorised Mercedes-Benz dealer for his 25 y/o Benz 380SE (W126 similar to my car). For relevance I recently purchased the same item for Mrs nota's Falcon, which set me back $56
Care to guess what the listed quote was from the M-B dealer?
Furniture
i'll use the x2 assumption + dealer markup
so
$120?
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Enthusiast
Mate not even remotely close. I'll give you a clue ...
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Something stupid, maybe $300.
Reginald *IB4R* says:
it was a beautiful 35 seconds.
David says:
that's what she said
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$1600
"Kimi, can you improve on your [race] finish?"
"No. My Finnish is fine; I am from Finland. Do you have any water?"
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One hundred million dollars?
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The things we do for girls who won't sleep with us.
Patrick says:
dads is too long so it wont fit
so i took hers out
and put mine in
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Close enough to get the gongOriginally Posted by f6fhellcat13
$1600
one thousand eight hundred dollars
I might add, for perspective, that a brand new fuel distributor assembly (for the mechanical injection system) of the older 6.3 litre V8 (M100-series) motor, ie 6.3 SEL & 600 Grosser, will reputedly set you back a not inconsiderable AUD$27,000, ex-Germany.
No thats not a typo
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Sorry for this but...Close enough to get the gong
one thousand eight hundred dollars
I might add, for perspective, that a brand new fuel distributor assembly (for the mechanical injection system) of the older 6.3 litre V8 (M100-series) motor, ie 6.3 SEL & 600 Grosser, will reputedly set you back a not inconsiderable AUD$27,000, ex-Germany.
No thats not a typo
WHAT THE F***!?
You can almost get a brand new C-Class for that price!
Reginald *IB4R* says:
it was a beautiful 35 seconds.
David says:
that's what she said
Furniture
^ consider i can get nearly any air cooled 911 engine dropped into my car, completed and running, for $8,000 AUD, doing absolutely none of the work myself
$27k for a fuel distributor is simply immense!
Andreas Preuninger, Manager of Porsche High Performance Cars: "Grandmas can use paddles. They aren't challenging."
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^^ Dave I know, its ridiculous. No make that insane. You can appreciate why M100 owners tend to re-sleeve or reco their fuel 'blocks' instead of buying a new one! The factory can & will supply clients with virtually any part, for literally any model-year Benz. But the price can be mind numbing. Apparently the M-B factory has run out of NOS of this component and this is (or was, as-of last year) their price to manufacture a new one
Btw re that distributor cap price .. no, it did not include the rotor!
Furniture
That is astonishing.
However if you had bought a, let's say, Alfa Romeo 6 it would cost 10 times less, but fail 10 times more.
Probably...
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That's why you don't go to the stealership
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I think Cadillac charges $10,000 for a lugnut.
John says:
so i had to dump acid into the block tank today
i'm afraid to fap
cause i got it on my hands
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I'm awesome.Close enough to get the gong
one thousand eight hundred dollars
I might add, for perspective, that a brand new fuel distributor assembly (for the mechanical injection system) of the older 6.3 litre V8 (M100-series) motor, ie 6.3 SEL & 600 Grosser, will reputedly set you back a not inconsiderable AUD$27,000, ex-Germany.
No thats not a typo
I think in the TG old luxo cars segment Jeremy said he had a "routine sevrice tuneup" on his Grosser for £25,000
"Kimi, can you improve on your [race] finish?"
"No. My Finnish is fine; I am from Finland. Do you have any water?"
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The dealer I used to work at, we charged $7.50 for a single lug stud. Shit you not.
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The things we do for girls who won't sleep with us.
Patrick says:
dads is too long so it wont fit
so i took hers out
and put mine in
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