A minor victory - I wonder how many more there are?
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2022 1:41 pm
I'm feeling very pleased about a very minor victory and am left wondering how many similar opportunities there are - could be a rich vein of info for magazine articles - even maybe a letter of the month type thing 
My car came to me with a broken catch on the centre console, meaning that the lid doesn't click shut as it should - yes I know this is a very minor thing, but hear me out!
A quick check at David Manners and SNG Barratt, shows that the part is available for over a tenner:
https://www.jagspares.co.uk/product/cat ... /kzl100002
https://www.sngbarratt.com/English/#/UK ... NGS(13567)
I know it's only a tenner plus postage, but it just seemed like a lot of money for a tiny bit of plastic and metal. I'm afraid I'm the type of person who, on principle, would rather have a non-clicking centre console lid than have to pay over the odds to repair it! I wondered if the fact that it's a 'Classic Jaguar' part meant that I was being asked to pay through the teeth for it, so I began to look elsewhere to see if it was a part used in other British cars of the era.
Sure enough, a bit of cross-checking and part number searching, lead me to this eBay listing:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/323354008056
It's also an MG part and when you buy it for your classic MG, it costs £3.48.
Yoink!
Does anyone else have any examples of this type of thing? - hopefully with much more expensive or hard to find parts with a similar percentage reduction?
My car came to me with a broken catch on the centre console, meaning that the lid doesn't click shut as it should - yes I know this is a very minor thing, but hear me out!
A quick check at David Manners and SNG Barratt, shows that the part is available for over a tenner:
https://www.jagspares.co.uk/product/cat ... /kzl100002
https://www.sngbarratt.com/English/#/UK ... NGS(13567)
I know it's only a tenner plus postage, but it just seemed like a lot of money for a tiny bit of plastic and metal. I'm afraid I'm the type of person who, on principle, would rather have a non-clicking centre console lid than have to pay over the odds to repair it! I wondered if the fact that it's a 'Classic Jaguar' part meant that I was being asked to pay through the teeth for it, so I began to look elsewhere to see if it was a part used in other British cars of the era.
Sure enough, a bit of cross-checking and part number searching, lead me to this eBay listing:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/323354008056
It's also an MG part and when you buy it for your classic MG, it costs £3.48.
Yoink!
Does anyone else have any examples of this type of thing? - hopefully with much more expensive or hard to find parts with a similar percentage reduction?
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