Exorbitant drain plug price solved - magnetic plug?

Graham Thackrah gthack at geog.ucl.ac.uk
Thu Nov 14 13:47:36 EST 2002


Hi list,

The price seems wrong, I bought 5 here in the UK and there is **no** way I
paid the UK equivalent price of over 150 dollars. I'll check my receipts
tonight and let you all know. I suspect they were about 2-3 quid each (4-5
bucks?)

Of course, if US dealers really are charging 35 bucks a piece, I can do em
for 20 each inc shipping;)

I think the post where the price is mentioned is this one and it was 25
dollars:

http://www.audifans.com/pipermail/quattro/20021111/065211.html

Phil P mentions the Facom driver part number for the 12pt anti-tamper bit
on his web site

http://www.isham-research.com/quattro/gearbox_oil.html

D.120-16 is the Facom part number (3/8" drive)

Something does come to mind though, Phil also mentions 2 parts, one a
plain gearbox fill and rear diff fill/drain plug (111 301 127E) and
another gearbox drain plug WITH MAGNET (113 301 141B), and the OP did
specify that the plug was a drain plug, maybe the OP correctly bought a
plug with magnet. I can see that being more expensive than the plain
cooking versions, hopefully not 25 dollars though? CTDiesel DJ, you about?
Can you check your pt # to see?

Just checked the local dealer, 111 301 127E goes for 1.45 sterling and 113
301 141B goes for 7.50 sterling (2.3 and 12 dollars respectively) - so 25
dollars does seem over the top even for a magnetic drain plug.

I imagine that the 5 I bought (and haven't fitted yet) are all the fill
plugs, so if I pull a gearbox drain and find it's magnetic I'll be heading
back to the dealer for a replacement for one of my plugs. If you pull a
front drain (cf. fill) plug out and it's magnetic and covered in bits of
gearbox, then I'd guess a good idea would be to replace with another
magnetic one. I thought the transmissions had an internal magnet somewhere
though?

hth

Graham.




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