[V8] $30 for THIS?! - Friction Pads Worth More by Weight than Gold

[Ingo Rautenberg]

Hmm, which part # is this you're referring to?

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From: "Jeremy Ward" <jward at mti-interactive.com>
To: <daves745t at optonline.net>; <V8 at audifans.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: [V8] $30 for THIS?! - Friction Pads Worth More by Weight than
Gold


Just keep telling yourself the cost of *not* having that $30 part is over
$1k.  Just ask a couple of the guys here whose mechanics left out this small
part and toasted their 'brand new' timing belts (and valves, and...)

:-)

- Jeremy

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-----Original Message-----
From: v8-bounces at audifans.com <v8-bounces at audifans.com>
To: Audifans V8 <V8 at audifans.com>
Sent: Wed Jan 26 06:49:01 2005
Subject: [V8] $30 for THIS?! - Friction Pads Worth More by Weight than Gold

So I had to special order a friction pad and picked it up at a local
dealership. When the guy came out with it my immediate reaction was, "Hang
on a sec', I think you ordered the wrong part."  He was holding a ziplock
bag with a black, round piece of plastic literally smaller than a dime that
was a little over a quarter of an inch long with a hole in the middle and
two sides squared off.  The bag was marked with the part number but I still
wasn't convinced. So I had him look it up again and show me the part on the
ETK before I agreed that it was in fact a friction pad and forked over my
money.  If I had a scale that could weigh it, I guarantee by weight it would
be one of the most valuable objects on earth.

I walked back to my car and just stared at it, then I went home and actually
took a pic or two of it, saying to myself that this could not cost more than
a nickel to make.  If you've never seen one, I don't know whether you
should - it is better to think that it is some sizable, substantial piece of
super-material built to withstand the hellish environment of an engine.
Unbelievable - I just had to vent and this seemed like the best place.

DaveM

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