Holy Moly, Parts Price Ripoff Inflation
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03-17-2009, 02:30 PM
Holy Moly, Parts Price Ripoff Inflation
local Schucks CSK store wants $6.99
per plug for the APP765 double platinum plug we have been relying on for years on our 4.0L OHVs
highway rip off. glad my Aero is not a V8
I'll donate to starving kids of laid off parents, but giant auto parts conglomerate CEOs trying to rip me off, NO WAY
let them starve.
last time i open the door to that store.
on to option B.
per plug for the APP765 double platinum plug we have been relying on for years on our 4.0L OHVshighway rip off. glad my Aero is not a V8
I'll donate to starving kids of laid off parents, but giant auto parts conglomerate CEOs trying to rip me off, NO WAY
let them starve.
last time i open the door to that store.
on to option B.
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03-17-2009, 02:40 PM
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03-17-2009, 06:07 PM
try a couple heavy coatings of silicone spray when wires are dry.
hit the distributor cap, coil top also.
got anything like this available?
got the Motorcraft wire set for $42, Schucks CSK wanted $58, and the one APP765 plug for hole #1 for $3.25 at my local old hot rod parts machine shop. even got to BS with some of the old guys behind the parts counter and go back into the old shop area with the Girly Parts Calendars still on the wall from the 1960s and 70s.
hit the distributor cap, coil top also.
got anything like this available?
got the Motorcraft wire set for $42, Schucks CSK wanted $58, and the one APP765 plug for hole #1 for $3.25 at my local old hot rod parts machine shop. even got to BS with some of the old guys behind the parts counter and go back into the old shop area with the Girly Parts Calendars still on the wall from the 1960s and 70s.
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03-17-2009, 06:39 PM
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local Schucks CSK store wants $6.99 per plug for the APP765 double platinum plug we have been relying on for years on our 4.0L OHVs
highway rip off. glad my Aero is not a V8
I'll donate to starving kids of laid off parents, but giant auto parts conglomerate CEOs trying to rip me off, NO WAY
let them starve.
last time i open the door to that store.
on to option B.
per plug for the APP765 double platinum plug we have been relying on for years on our 4.0L OHVshighway rip off. glad my Aero is not a V8
I'll donate to starving kids of laid off parents, but giant auto parts conglomerate CEOs trying to rip me off, NO WAY
let them starve.
last time i open the door to that store.
on to option B.
you could be only 1/2 hour away from a NON misfiring motor again!!!!!
Oh ...... PLUS another 2-3 hrs to do those dam wires
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03-18-2009, 05:37 AM
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03-21-2009, 06:10 AM
Motorcraft AGSF32FM has been replaced by AGSF32FMF6
MSRP each: $8.27 // FTEpartsguy.com price each: $3.67
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03-21-2009, 12:43 PM
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Great price....... but by the time you add shipping & import duty to Canada, we are well over $5.32 !!
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03-21-2009, 06:19 PM
Uh...the problem is...that it does not apply to individual private citizens.
You could always buy them and have them shipped with the package marked books...there's no VAT on books.
When I found that out at the Vancouver Maritime Museum in Victoria, I bought a carload.