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over_clox@lemmy.world 3 days agoI had a 91 Chevy Corsica, it only cost me $87 for a replacement used transmission and torque converter, fully functional and with reasonably low mileage for the age.
So why the fuck does a mass airflow sensor (yes just a fucking sensor) cost $96 for a 2005 Hyundai Tucson?
Fuck, if I want a budget vehicle, I’ll find a cheap used junker somewhere suffering some mystery issue where all it takes is disconnecting a basically unnecessary sensor somewhere.
Guess what sensor I disconnected on my roommate’s Hyundai…
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
From my experience as a mechanic, part and car availability play a lot of role in pricing. If the type of car is very common in your area then the part tend to be cheaper, new or used. Also MAS very rarely broken, i’ve only ever replacing 1 or 2 the 15 years i’m in the industry, so sometime people won’t stock it or people will mark it up high. Sensor that last a long time tend to cost that way. Your transmission might’ve sit on someone warehouse that they’re desperately wanting to get rid of.
over_clox@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I found the MAF sensor on eBay for $22.99 just yesterday, it’s on the way now. Honestly if it was my vehicle, I’d just leave the old one disconnected and call it a day, it already runs a thousand times better than the old one did when connected.
The old transmission for the 91 Corsica? Yeah that definitely wasn’t on a warehouse shelf.
That came out of a U-Pull-It junkyard, all fluids already drained and the best two hints I had to go on was the mileage on the odometer (around 89k miles) and the residual transmission fluid still on the stick wasn’t brown, it was still pink.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
sometime stuff on eBay is not limited to location so they can be somewhere with low rent in the middle of nowhere, or they can be high up in the distribution chain so stuff is cheaper, or it could be fake part. You haven’t tell me what kind of brand you’re getting so i won’t talk about your local part store.
Junkyard is like a warehouse without roof, and since you’re doing work pulling out the stuff yourself, i’m not sure why you’re wondering it’s cheap.
over_clox@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I grew up on the junkyard.
I’m not wondering why it’s cheap, I’m wondering why it isn’t more common…