On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:01:09 -0400, Dan Wright <dan.wright@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
>Steve R. wrote:
>> "Shawn" <diskette@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> news:480e6d78$0$7687$4c368faf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> "The Kontaminator" <the.kontaminator@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>> news:LWrPj.57035$h65.26455@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>> My car has reached a stage of fix or bin.
>>>>
>>>> Frankly it's been a good car the 2 years I've had it, doing 30k in it
>>>> it's needed nothing but a new back box until recently at 51k when it
>>>> needed a new steering rack, and now needs the offside and nearside
engine
>>>> mounts replacing.
>>>>
>>>> Have had a quote from Ford for the two engine mounts and they've
quoted
>>>> me around £150 for the pair - is this really right? They're a bolt
>>>> surrounded by rubber essentially. This is robbery!
>>>>
>>>> The debate is as the mounts are knackered prematurely does this give
a
>>>> high chance that other parts are looming to fail early too?
>>>>
>>>> Any advice would be appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>> Dealer****ps always charge the highest prices. try NAPA.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Do they have NAPA stores in the UK? He may do better at a breakers yard
(
>> auto wreckers)
>>
>> A note to British posters, the rest of us do not use the terms "near
side"
>> and "off side".
>>
>> Steve R.
>>
>>
>the rest of us, i.e. american?
Yeah, I keep trying to tell everyone the OP is in the UK someplace,
but nobody is listening...
This is the kind of part it's a total waste of time to buy used at a
wrecking yard, since the replacement part will be deteriorated by time
oil and use too. Six months later the replacement fails.
Motor mounts aren't that expensive if the seller isn't adding
several heaping dollops of added profit because they handled it. Once
again, Ford doesn't make the part themselves, they buy it from someone
else that makes vulcanized rubber mounts.
--<< Bruce >>--
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