Really? I read price-carping. Generally I mean.
Yes, I read price-carping. All the more if we bring in the more desirable used parts?
You know the kinda thing… overdrives, some trim pieces, certain engines, anything S1, one ton and FC parts, mech-winches and PTO bits blah.
Yes, there’s quite a lot of chancers… however look closely and for a sellers-market, most of that stuff is snapped-up so fast, this can only serve as evidence this stuff is cheap.
When a ‘Boxed Old stock Brake cylinder’ fetches £400 I don’t have much sympathy. Anyone paying £400 for a part you can buy via Britpart for £25 is admitting they don’t intend to use it anyway.
Hardly a week passes before somebody complains a part isn’t made, and thinks the tooling for small batches should cost pennies.. I suppose, from the perspective of serviceable slave-cylinders for £7 delivered, anything could look pricey.
Then there’s the ‘What is a fair price to pay for X?’ threads. This is always code for ‘fair to the OP’, and the answers always come back at 25% of what ‘said’ article sells for anyway.
Lest we forget thrreads running about paying £100 odd for insurance? You wouldn’t believe this possible but it’s true. When other road-users pay anything between £450 and in my son’s case £3400, I’m not sure what the right price is expected to be? You have to chuckle, the tight-wad nature of the LR community keeps clubs poor… you know it’s true.
I’ve had to pay mad prices for used parts, but overall I’m vastly up. I’ve just unloaded some FC bits at £excessive, and still fought buyers off. You win some, you lose others.
Anyone that’s had leafers much over 20-30 years, has heaps of kit by default.
My father and grandfather before me, I made a point of collecting way back.
When we can get a steering-relay for £60 delivered, we can hardly whinge where a PTO unit costs £crazy. It’s a bit rich to bitch, when our kind can unload our stash for a helluva lot more.
Unless you want an obscure factory option, or some such, we can stick to readily available cheap parts. Admit it, you likely want. but don’t need, that obscure and pricey part anyway?
And don’t ‘come it’ either! If you sold-up tomorrow, are you saying you’d sell your ‘galved everything’ S2 for £800? You know damned well it’d sell all day long at £12.000+ If yours is bright, double.
When you see that one of a kind hydraulic rearward facing PTO mower ‘doowacky’ at £4000, and you want it, you know what to do. Simply admit in 1974 when the others were ‘weighed-in’, you were too idle to find it. Now it’s rare, you won’t see another, and you can hold it today. Shut-up with your bitchin’… don’t come on here cryin’. “It’s NOT worth that?!” . It is. Don’t cry to us about you £120 insurance premium either. Pay the man.
You can get steering-relays for £60 for crissakes.
We’re very, very lucky.