Re: Cheap oxygen sensor pricing policies

[<isham-research.freeserve.co.uk@pop.pol.net.uk>]

> I was wondering if it was a wide spread practice for an auto supplier to
> charge more than one price for the same item in different applications? I

I think you would pay a little more at a Lamborghini dealer for an
ignition coil than you would if you went to a FIAT dealer and bought
the same coil for a FIAT 124.  And the Lambo needs two of them.

There's a guy here in the UK (Pete Reeve, quattro Corner) who's making a
tidy living discovering the original manufacturers of Audi parts and
dealing directly with them.  Dealerships have a book called the "Damage
Number Catalogue" that lists all of the logos stamped onto bought-in
parts and the corresponding manufacturers.

Curiously, this works in odd ways.  The ur-quattro air filter is off a
VW van, but is now half the price of the (same) van filter.

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 Phil Payne
 UK Audi quattro Owners Club
 Phone +44 7785 302803  Fax +44 870 0883933