it's the general, man. piece of crap is a lifestyle. On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Rich Thomas < richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> wrote:
> Well, yeah. I have a call into the Cad dlr, a Chev dealer doesn't seem to > have a parts guy working today. Maybe I can leverage that price (whatever > it is) against them, see what they will do. It pisses me off though that > the part was crap to begin with, bad adhesive or something, it appears this > happened to a lot of cars of that vintage. There was some sort of NHTSA > report on it, but I couldn't find a recall or tech advisory or whatever it > is they do. It was actually sort of dangerous, my daughter was driving in > the dark, an oncoming car hit a puddle which splashed up either knocking off > the lenses or they were already gone and the water shattered the bulbs, or > both -- no lights, YOW! Fortunately the brights worked til she got home. > Car only has about 60k miles on it, so has not had a lot of road time over > the years. > > --R > > > Gary Hurst wrote: > >> see haley above >> >> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Rich Thomas < >> richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> wrote: >> >> >> >>> So here is the breakdown for one headlamp assembly (though I only need >>> the >>> lenses, I need to buy the whole deal) >>> Part Shipping Total >>> >>> $130.19 >>> >>> >>> >>> $28.64 >>> >>> >>> >>> $158.83 >>> >>> >>> $30 shipping for one part? They maybe weigh 3 lb, probably fit into a >>> postal service flat rate box. >>> >>> --R >>> >>> >>> >>> Gary Hurst wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> it's not a terrible conclusion to reach. i simply don't know. i do >>>> know >>>> that i can generally do better from flow than i can from the the local >>>> dealers i've tried and many GM dealers are fairly reasonable for parts >>>> and >>>> service relative to what is seen in the euro import world >>>> >>>> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Mitch Haley <m...@voyager.net> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Gary Hurst wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> worldpac has very little on teh domestic front. for genuine GM parts, >>>>>> i >>>>>> have been using >>>>>> >>>>>> http://www.gmpartsdirect.com/ >>>>>> >>>>>> shipping is slow, however, and you do have to be careful about >>>>>> excessive >>>>>> shipping costs >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> I get the idea that the prices shown are Flow's cost, and all the >>>>> profit >>>>> is >>>>> included in the shipping and handling. >>>>> >>>>> Mitch. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________ >>>>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>>>> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >>>>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>>>> >>>>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>>>> http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > -- save 5% on our already low, low prices. use coupon code DAVE at checkout. www. BuyEUROparts.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
