Most insane robbery (Sort of...)

Post by **jtbo** » 24 Oct 2008 07:36 pm

Weird topic again.

I'm curious to know what is ultimate rip off try that you have seen in person?

Mine did happen at one breaker's yard, I was after heater matrix for my computer water cooling project, while I was at it I did see A14 and A15 (used in for example Nissan Sunny b11 1982-1986) engines there, prices where 1800-2500 euros and that was around year 2003

Prices of those cars were fraction of that during those days, I wonder if they did sell any

Have you spotted similar cases where asking price has been way out of line for some product?

Post by **Ozbrick** » 25 Oct 2008 02:21 am

Haha! Good thread!

I was looking at mags for the volvo, 1 place had 15inch wheels and tyre combo for AUS$800. I went down the road to get a second opinion. This guy had 16 inch/17inch deals for $800-$900 I said "How much for a 15 inch set(all I'm legally allowed to have) and he goes 'That's a weird request, the least we could do it for is $1500 for those ones!" *points to Sh!ttest set of mags in the building.

Another one was where I went to the wreckers to get the air conditioning for the volvo. A volvo 360 came in just as we were chatting about it and I asked how much for the airconditioning controls and everything, he goes "$880, then you'd need to get one of OUR guys to install it.." I think I'd know where'd I'd insert that compressor after that exchange, needless to say I didn't get it and now enjoy a hot car!!

Post by **kds19** » 26 Oct 2008 04:43 pm

my friend want £2000 for a rusty old vauxhall nova GTE just because he put a gsi engine in it, and what he doesnt seem to get is that the engines are exactly the same, it has half an interior (not stripped out,lol) abd it has big denst and bashes all over it. lol

Post by **hatch360** » 28 Oct 2008 02:28 am

lol similar story to ozbrick; i was looking for tyres for my mags and I got this guy who only had r60 size then he went on and on how they wont fit but if i want low profile it will cost 500-600 bucks used and by changing them I risk having my speedo out by +10km. Found another shop $240 for a set of barely used r50 tyres and speedo is reading 1-2km over.

And when getting roadworthy dodgy shop man failed the car on many things but the most obvious was 'left indicator doesnt self cancel out' and 'horn sounds different'.