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

[sdewitt at stx.rr.com]

Welcome to the world of supply and demand!

Mcdonalds does it everyday. Make a hamburger for 15 cents and sell it for 2.99!
I'm not sure what the beef is. 

----- Original Message -----
From: Ingo Rautenberg <i.rautenberg at waratap.com>
Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 9:26 am
Subject: Re: [V8] $30 for THIS?! - Friction Pads Worth More by Weight than Gold

> Hmm, which part # is this you're referring to?
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> 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 
> ziplockbag 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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