Fuel Pump Scam By Dealers

[drizler]

The problem is there parts supplier is setting not only the retail but the dealer cost

always wondered how Federal laws on price fixing and restraint of trade factored into this....they must be skating right on
the edge. The old "mfg refuses to allow us to post anything but full price" routine.
Bought a current model Bose speaker easily at discount lately? Just one example.

all we can do is vote with our feet.

30 years ago you " let your fingers do the walking". These days Ebay, Amazon and Craigs list are your principal friends. And well they should be. Strangely these days I end up buying well over half my car parts from Amazon . Same exact stuff for about half what the stealerships get. Who shops at Stealerships anymore anyways? In 40 years of wrenching everything I ever owned from boats to cars to even an airplane I bet I went to a dealership no more than 10 times and all but 2 were for boat stuff. Now days I only go near one if it is something that I need extreme advice on . One thing people tend not to know is the value of PART NUMBERS. Whack those babies in Google and do some digging and all will usually be revealed. That in spite of them constantly changing the numbers. It just takes perseverance and time.

 

[pat32rf]

I asked my buddy with a service station to order me in an oil filter for my JD 4300. He looked at the cross reference and got one off his shelf. Said he would not spend the time to write me a bill for an item that cost him 87 cents Canadian....

 

[pmsmechanic]

I asked my buddy with a service station to order me in an oil filter for my JD 4300. He looked at the cross reference and got one off his shelf. Said he would not spend the time to write me a bill for an item that cost him 87 cents Canadian....

Can you tell us the brand and part number.

 

[Dftodd]

On filters, especially baldwin, the dealers get rebates from baldwin. So you usually only pay 3 % mark up on filters, instead of the standard 25/50/100% mark up from other places.

On the new tier 4 duetz motors, the electric fuel pump is $1300 big ones :shocked: checked out the local O'Reilly auto parts. They have an electric fuel pump for $60. The one from O'Reilly's puts out 10% more volume. Bet you can guess where I'll get a replacement fuel pump when the motors out of warranty

 

[aczlan]

30 years ago you " let your fingers do the walking". These days Ebay, Amazon and Craigs list are your principal friends. And well they should be. Strangely these days I end up buying well over half my car parts from Amazon . Same exact stuff for about half what the stealerships get. Who shops at Stealerships anymore anyways? In 40 years of wrenching everything I ever owned from boats to cars to even an airplane I bet I went to a dealership no more than 10 times and all but 2 were for boat stuff. Now days I only go near one if it is something that I need extreme advice on . One thing people tend not to know is the value of PART NUMBERS. Whack those babies in Google and do some digging and all will usually be revealed. That in spite of them constantly changing the numbers. It just takes perseverance and time.

Depends on the part. Needed 2nd row captains chair seat release handles last week for a '05 Suburban. Amazon and ebay had them for $9-40 each. Dealership was $9 for one and $8 for the other.

Aaron Z

 

[WM75Guy]

I use Amazon quite a bit. One thing I do check is the seller's website before buying from Amazon. I bought a grease gun from KTC that I first saw on Amazon. Buying direct from KTC saved me $120, $50 cheaper, $50 less shipping, and no $20 tax buying from KTC.

 

[Gary Fowler]

Online shopping while usually cheaper is not always. My neighbor just bought a used 40 foot motor home and the spare was pretty well useless with side wall cracks. Internet shopping yielded the best price of around $400 without mounting or balancing. A local truck stop repair place which he had doing a full service on the vehicle sold him a new Michelin tire for $200 mounted and balanced.
It pays to shop around including locally.

Speaking of rip offs. It happens that my sister-in-law's washing machine went out same time that ours developed a water leak. Wife was out of town so I was sitting with the repair main when he found a leaking water shutoff valve on mine. Had to order the part (no idea what it would cost) but the kicker is the trip charge of $156. He then went right next door about 400 feet and charged my SIL the same $156 while at the time saying the cost to fix is more than a new washer without doing anything other than touching the drum. Bearing was out and $600 to fix it. My BIL was a bit P.O ed at the service fee to say the least.
Service man did say that Whirlpool Cabrio washers were famously over-rated and none would last more than 7 years without that bearing going out, many within a year. It is a sealed in bearing that cant be replaced, the whole drum has to be replaced. This apparently has been an ongoing problem for many years which the manufacturer refuses to correct even though many are replaced under warranty.

WTF is with these manufacturers like GM and Remington refusing to fix a problem till it is mandated by the FEDs.
If you don't know the deal with Remington and their rifle safety issue, google it. Interesting read and pennies to fix, discovered within a year of original design but didn't for over 40 years.

Note: Oh yeah, in Remingtons case it was never fixed and still denied as a problem with the guns even though one accidental discharge was made in a courtroom when one lawsuit was being tried.

 

[pap71]

I asked my buddy with a service station to order me in an oil filter for my JD 4300. He looked at the cross reference and got one off his shelf. Said he would not spend the time to write me a bill for an item that cost him 87 cents Canadian....

You might want to rethink using your 87 cent oil filter. I have seen the filter media in poor, fair, good and best oil filters. You get what you pay for when it comes to filters. That is cleaning your oil and the cheap filters the media can and will collapse, you are then not cleaning the oil.