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Just ordered this little switch for the drivers door and it's going to cost me a massive.................. £16 incl vat from dealers. I do like prices like this

Should be about a fiver max I reckon!

always remember many many years ago when I popped the mirror control knob off the switch on the door in a passat that I had. went to the parts counter at the local VAG distributor, and asked for a new one. I knew the guy at the counter, and he laughed when I asked for one (seemingly it was a common problem

disappeared in the back and came back with a switch in a bag, and asked me if I wanted the seat, skoda, vw or audi one. I asked him what was the difference and he said (and this is cloudy but I do remember the 6x differential between cheapest and dearest) something along the lines of 5, 7, 12 and 30 pounds (thats how long ago this was

and I asked him what the actual difference was and he said nothing - they are all this one here

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bought the exact button for 8.27 pounds, brand new and original , that was cheap indeed..also bought at the same time the front windows switches surrounding trim for the same price each...i guess they wanted to get rid of it as nobody buys them anymore. Here is a good one, we bought last year from Audi a brand new set of 4 x 19" rims for the RS6 C5 for about 1.146 pounds, they had it in their warehouse for the last 5-6 years and after an hour of negotiation with the manager we got them down to the above price from 3.274 pounds asking price, that was a really good deal. Also saw in their warehouse an 18' set for the RS6, they were willing to sell it for the same price, curious what other goodies they might have left in there...

Oooer mine got knocked off 4 years ago on my diesel so I just put some cellotape over it and its been no trouble since, forgot its there really!

mik15 wrote:bought the exact button for 8.27 pounds, brand new and original , that was cheap indeed..also bought at the same time the front windows switches surrounding trim for the same price each...i guess they wanted to get rid of it as nobody buys them anymore. Here is a good one, we bought last year from Audi a brand new set of 4 x 19" rims for the RS6 C5 for about 1.146 pounds, they had it in their warehouse for the last 5-6 years and after an hour of negotiation with the manager we got them down to the above price from 3.274 pounds asking price, that was a really good deal. Also saw in their warehouse an 18' set for the RS6, they were willing to sell it for the same price, curious what other goodies they might have left in there...

I read that as you bought a set of OEM RS6 Ronals for £1.14. Is that true?!?!?

bam_bam wrote:

mik15 wrote:bought the exact button for 8.27 pounds, brand new and original , that was cheap indeed..also bought at the same time the front windows switches surrounding trim for the same price each...i guess they wanted to get rid of it as nobody buys them anymore. Here is a good one, we bought last year from Audi a brand new set of 4 x 19" rims for the RS6 C5 for about 1.146 pounds, they had it in their warehouse for the last 5-6 years and after an hour of negotiation with the manager we got them down to the above price from 3.274 pounds asking price, that was a really good deal. Also saw in their warehouse an 18' set for the RS6, they were willing to sell it for the same price, curious what other goodies they might have left in there...

I read that as you bought a set of OEM RS6 Ronals for £1.14. Is that true?!?!?

A helluva discount, they went down from £3.27...

Ballsy, if it were £3.27 I wouldn't have been haggling. That's crazy!

I wonder how much the 18" set would be after negotiation. 99p?

the power of dot , good to have an accountant on the forum, so now replace the "." with a "," and you get the picture , and you get to keep the dot, for free

Mind you, wouldn't put it past an accountant to haggle down from £3.27...

mik15 wrote:the power of dot , good to have an accountant on the forum, so now replace the "." with a "," and you get the picture , and you get to keep the dot, for free

You're giving us your dot, for free?!

Remember once an interior plastic light cover on ATR 42 ( mostly French aero plane) being identical to one in Citroen BX.
Apparently the airplane part was over £1000 !

The certification and traceability required for supplying aviation parts is brutal, though.