FIAT...aboslutely t**ts just because they can....

MasterAuron

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Rang up Fiat earlier at work for some new front brake pipes from the ABS unit to the front flexi-pipes. On my 2-year old ePER they are listed a about £9 and £11. They want less than a tenner for the one side (which is reasonable and perfectly fair) but they want....wait for it...£30 for the other side!!!!! And that's with a discount.

It's just a piece of pipe and they are clearly charging that just because they can as the other side is a third of the price. It sickens me. I told him to stick it as for that I can get a whole brake pipe making kit with a load of copper pipe and make my own. Which I have. Idiota.

Rant over!
 
Not as bad as BMW mate. I needed a new water jet tank. I popped in and asked how much expecting a figure around the £20 mark (I had previously bought a manifold gasket for £10 from them). Any idea how much they said?


£77!
 
My god, it's silly really. £77 for a bit of plastic! FIAT are *usually* reasonable. A new header tank £27 for example is about what you'd expect to pay but you get the odd part that has been priced with no reasoning behind it whatsoever. It's simply FIAT trying to get one over on you.

Ok so it was only a brake pipe but imagine if it was a part you actually needed with no alternative! I've had some other silly prices but nothing as ludicrous as this as the fact that the other pipe is less than a tenner makes it all the worse.
 
it seems to be any of the car manufacturers doing the same, we needed a small washer for the transit, rubber, in an irregular size - Ford asked for over a tenner just for this, picker it up for a quid somewhere.
they really do take the p*ss with pricing at these places, just as well they have motor factors or i'd have been bankrupt a long time ago! (used to go through a wheel bearing every 3 months on my Escorts and luckily gbp10 per one from the factors, think of 30 quid from Ford).
 
i dont think ive personally bought anything frm main dealers.....

oooohhhh, just remembered,, the clutch cable retainer on top of the pedal for a xantia.
cost 3.29 gbp.
anyone else had a go fitting one of these ?
nightmare. depends which way the bolt that goes through, bolt head on the accelerator side of pedal, not too bad....
bolt head passenger side, more or less the whole dashboard comes out. had this happen to me twice, once on my dads, once on my own !!!
 
I think Prince is just edging ahead on most rediculous price. Glad to see others people have nearly been ripped off too lol. Any more?
 
I know, I have priced up the parts for my Evo for a 4.5K service. The oil filter, oil comes to £47 trade. The plugs have already been done. The service costs £250! That is £203 for about 45 min work! I already know all my fluids are topped up becasue I check them my self! Thats the price you have to pay to get a stamp.

I would have done the work my self, but that would depretiate the value of my car!
 

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