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Originally Posted by k_mann
oh I totally agree, its even worse with p-cars! But I think some things deserve to be called out as obnoxious when its not oem/oem supplier. These covers can't have taken such a serious level of R&D to mill out of aluminum that it justifies the price they're going. You're replacing a low failure rate (that we know) plastic cap with aluminum, so you know it won't fail. Its about as important as valve cover screw so again, not near the R&d of something like bearing shells.
I know my message seems condescending towards the work on these, but its not, its just the price gouging. But they have the monopoly on it now so not much can be done besides creating competition.....ie this thread  |
Oh they're priced totally fair for something with ZERO competition lmao... free market and all.
I really want to reach out to some companies that do destructive investigations of plastic compositions. I used an MWIR spectrometer a couple months ago to try and figure out exactly what they were made of but the readings didn't match anything in the tool's spectral library so I didn't get a hit. I'm starting to look for companies that will do chemical analysis, and hoping that one will respond with a <$500 (hopeful) quote. I don't mind shredding my current covers to send samples to labs since I'm already this far in haha. It's either one of these 3D printed covers work, or I'm just machining replacements out of aluminum round-stock.