Luggage Cover New from OPC!!!!!!!!!!

[Lemon]

Oh my god!!!!!!!!!! Whilst in my local OPC today to get a few spare trim screws and washers, I thought I would shock myself and ask the price of a new (if they were still available) rear luggage cover.

I was not ready for the answer £546 plus VAT [][][][][][][]

Mine can stay a bit faded and saggy. I don't use it that often anyway.

 

[zcacogp]

Bit steep.

Did they have them in stock? Were they able to get one?


Oli.

 

[Lemon]

Did not ask any further questions after picking myself up off the floor []

 

[Diver944]

It's nice that most prices are fairly reasonable but every once in a while you find a shocking one like that []

My entire rear quarter panel was virtually the same price as that luggage cover and a front wing is a comparative bargain at £400

The dash clock at circa £130 brings it back in to perspective, and the front under spoiler (bat wing) is £200 - yikes!

 

[andy watson]

I have a spare black one in the garage, could save you the VAT if you want!!!![][][][]

 

[edh]

the side trims for the bridge spoiler hatch are IRO £150 + VAT each!

 

[appletonn]

ORIGINAL: Lemon

Oh my god!!!!!!!!!! Whilst in my local OPC today to get a few spare trim screws and washers, I thought I would shock myself and ask the price of a new (if they were still available) rear luggage cover.

I was not ready for the answer £546 plus VAT [][][][][][][]

Mine can stay a bit faded and saggy. I don't use it that often anyway.

I can feel a group buy coming on.... [8|][]

 

[MarkK]

The Luggage NET is still available and only 20 quidish from an OPC(you could then throw a coat over the items in the boot),thats a cheaper way to secure stowed items!!On the other end of the scale i bought a couple of bits today for my black turbo that i thought were scary pricewise,wheel arch liner 944 504 381 08 - 72 pounds!! Mirror glass 944 731 035 02 (i am restoring my car back to flag/elephant ear mirrors) £46.61!!!
Some of the parts like ashtrays are cheap but some are real stingers, the luggage cover is bonkers at that price,i wonder how long they will have these parts in stock anyway???
P.S My black car should be coming home soon,cannot wait should look really shiny[8D]

 

[berg944]

Mine can stay a bit faded and saggy. I don't use it that often anyway.

I hope that condition improves Lee.[]

Plenty of secondhand ones about that have unsprung due to the end caps breaking (cheap)

Rebuilt mine, 2 man job ......Loades of fun, bit like Twister with a tube instead of a mat[]

Mike[:'(]

 

[Lemon]

ORIGINAL: berg944

Mine can stay a bit faded and saggy. I don't use it that often anyway.

I hope that condition improves Lee.[]

Plenty of secondhand ones about that have unsprung due to the end caps breaking (cheap)

Rebuilt mine, 2 man job ......Loades of fun, bit like Twister with a tube instead of a mat[]

Mike[:'(]

Mine is for the split re seats Mike so no tube, just a strechy peice of fabric.

Which is why the price shocked me even more

 

[appletonn]

ORIGINAL: MarkK

P.S My black car should be coming home soon,cannot wait should look really shiny[8D]

Oh God, not as shiny as the red one Mark, please...?!!

I've just bought some 'Oli recommended' wax to try and aspire to the MarkK levels of dazzle![][]

 

[pauljmcnulty]

(i am restoring my car back to flag/elephant ear mirrors

I'm happy to take the old ones to the tip for you, Mark.......[8|]

 

[MarkK]

Gone already,looking very at home on a certain big engined turbo[]

 

[Diver944]

ORIGINAL: pauljmcnulty


I'm happy to take the old ones to the tip for you, Mark.......[8|]

You snooze you lose []

 

[zcacogp]

ORIGINAL: appletonn
I've just bought some 'Oli recommended' wax to try and aspire to the MarkK levels of dazzle![][]

Keep us posted with you you get on Nick/Scott.


Oli.

 

[Fen]

ORIGINAL: edh

the side trims for the bridge spoiler hatch are IRO £150 + VAT each!

It's much worse than that. My bridge spoiler was broken off by my neighbour when he had been on the pop and decided to try to set the alarm off for a laugh. I got a quote from Exeter OPC to replace it and we stopped counting at 1,400 notes before VAT - this was 6 or 7 years ago, too.

Not only are the side trims expensive, but they are held on by something like 16 bolts per side which are both very unusual (as in custom made for the job) and well over 3 quid each back then, plus VAT. Then you have the rubber trims and the 2 sections of spoiler itself. There was a black 968 in 911, Cayenne and more 911 World which the owner had spent 6 grand on replacing the hatch to get one with a built-in brake light or some nonsense.

In the end it cost my neighbour 600 notes as that was the quote from Simon Butterworth for a used hatch and I eventually used some of the cash to buy my 968TS replica wing.

Generally parts prices are never what you predict in my experience of Porsche. Sometimes they can be surprisingly cheap (new hinge for the centre console is about 7 quid (how many of you need to buy one and didn't realise it was almost free to fix?), new rubber for round the tailgate lock is about 3 quid, new linkage for wiper assembly is about 7 quid) and others are scarily / laughably expensive.

It's a good point asking how long the expensive stuff will stay in stock - a long time is the answer, then Porsche Cars GB decide they need the warehouse space more than the unlikely hope of lots of money for the part and they offer them around the dealers. Typically for 944 stuff Exeter will snap it up and offer it at a good price to people like your good selves. Examples of that are 968 M030 ARB kits for about 330 notes delivered, M030 Koni rear shocks for 50 quid each etc. That's also where the brand new bottom end that's being fitted to a car on here just now originally came from for about 1,600 as I recall.

 

[MarkK]

Wish when they offered it to me they would have offered that price[&o]

 

[zcacogp]

Fen,

That points at an interesting relationship with your neighbour, and possibly an interesting neighbour ...

1. He thinks it will be 'fun' to set your car alarm off after a night on the sauce (understandable ... ish, if he is a friend as well as a neighbour. Or just the local thug - either would qualify.)
2. He is brutal enough to break a bridge spoiler (tending towards 'local thug' in my estimation)
3. He (presumably) admits to it (getting back towards 'friend' rather than 'thug')
4. He coughs up 600 big ones to have the damage repaired (man of principle and integrity, clearly. Good lad.) Did he pay this out of his pocket, or did he claim on some personal liability insurance?

What would have happened if you had insisted on a new replacement (£1500 + VAT +++)? Would he have paid?

Did he remain a friend?


Oli.

 

[Fen]

Nope, not a friend, but not a thug either. He was spotted by someone further up the street who tipped me off who did it (she saw him trying to set her alarm off before mine). I gave him until tea-time to come clean, which he didn't, so I called Plod. To give the BiB their due they took a statement and then went house to house. About 30 minutes later Plod was back saying they knocked on his door and when he opened it the colour drained from his face; they didn't even need to ask if he'd seen anything. He confessed and claimed he wanted to tell me but was scared as he didn't know how I'd react.

He paid from his pocket as far as I know and I guess he'd have paid whatever it cost having a criminal damage charge hanging over his head. I took pity on him a bit as I've done stupid things when beered up myself and he didn't really mean any harm. He tried to set the alarm off by jumping on the spoiler which then tipped backward and sheared off its moutings; understandably not what he expected to happen.

We moved a few weeks after all this and I've never seen him since.

 

[zcacogp]

ORIGINAL: Fen
... not a thug ... but ... He tried to set the alarm off by jumping on the spoiler ....

He jumped on the bridge spoiler? As in, got two feet on top of the back of the car and jumped on the spoiler? And didn't expect it to break?

I'm a bit surprised.

(But what really amazes me is that the Police did anything at all - not only turned up but also went house-to-house and got a result. Spot the guy who didn't live in London, eh? People's stupidity is to be expected, I guess, but the ineptitude and plain laziness of the Police never ceases to astonish me. OK, rant over ... )


Oli.