I visited a Nissan dealership.
People were cool, lots of Nismo crap. Saw a few banged up 350z's

then went to the parts department and picked up some parts, headed over to the cashier and bent over



I'm sorry, but if I gave a mustang parts guy $10.51 for a gastank gasket, he would take a $8.01 tip and put $2.50 in the register for my parts, and thats assuming its expensive.

the 2 $38.32 parts were these

 

I bought new studs and bolts for the thermostat housing on my mom's '96 today. one of the damn things broke while trying to change it. Stealership charged $15 for 3 tiny studs and 3 nuts, which prolly cost 15c. in the real world!

 

What are you complaining about? Everyone knows stealership has a huge margin on parts - that's why we go elsewhere 99.9% of the time.
Manufacturers - and therefore dealers - have very low profit margins on most new cars - esp if they do 0% finance etc, so they load up the parts to recoup some of the R&D and tooling costs. Even a minor facelift can cost several millions, so a 200 - 500% profit margin on genuine parts is not uncommon. The generic manufacturers pay a low licence fee to the OEM which is why they're much cheaper than "genuine".
It sucks, but what you gonna do? Buy generic as much as possible!

 

You do realize that there is way more to a part's cost , than just the materials costs.

 

Of course - distribution, packaging, design, manufacturing, clerical, dealership markup, taxs etc, etc, etc.
Not knocking the car manufacturers for inflating the price of the parts - in some cases it's the only way they get a reasonable return on the original investment (i.e. the car). Recently I read of a Ford car that barely made $80 profit after discounting etc - can't remember the model, but it wasn't a SUV or truck (which make healthy profits).
That's commerce!

 

This was the .1% where the dealer was the only place I could get it, with out having to buy the entire fuel pump assembly ($70, I forget if that is before or after 'my' price).
You should see how many Napa boxes I have laying around

I know, I would say materials are about $0.33
Simply saying Nissan is murder on parts. I paid $33 for a new altenator for the mustang (and that has a full lifetime warrenty on it), while Jeff paid over $300 (IIRC) for a new alty from Nissan. Water pump was 1/4 the price aswell.

bahhhhhh

 

Ford sells their cars for almost no profit because:
1. Blue oval plague
2. They can count on making their money back from repairs
3. They have too

 

quit your complaining. get a Lexus and then see how much parts are....even a Toyota.

a tune up and t-belt on a Lexus V8 runs over $500 in parts alone. t-belt tensioner is a hundred bucks each...of course there's more than 1 in there.

Toyota fuel filter is 24-25 bucks. Nissan 12 tops. (both prices are "discounted")

after u pay those prices you'll be happy with nissan prices on parts.

 

I called up the dealership one day just wondering what they would charge for the stock 15's that came on the SE's. He said $225 a wheel. He even suggested that if I wanted new wheels that I should just buy aftermarket. Damn, those wheels are ugly as sh*t too.

 

heh...local dealer tried to get me to pay 18 for one for the max. after 10mins of *****ing i paid 11

 

Nisaan is actually one of the most competitive (pricewise) on parts, you'd be amazed at how many sensors are actually cheaper at the dealer. Hence the reason that I don't have them on my site

 

the toyota one is about 30-40 at the local dealer. complain all you want..they will still rape you. i do have it say it's a quality piece/part/car.

 

well, that's one more reason why i won't buy a lexus until i am the bling bling king

 

AHA! I see progress in those pictures!

Sorry you got hosed on the gasket. How much gas did you lose after we filled it?

Stealerships are stealerships. Some mark up parts more than others. My local Nissan place is a joke. When I lived in Portland, I had decent luck with one there, but maybe now it's crap, too, who knows? You gotta do what you gotta do. A lot of times you don't have the time to wait for something to get shipped, or the shipping cost negates the savings.


Note to MrGone: Got back a little early from the mountain, too cold for Max, so we cut out and went home. hahaha, told you that would happen.

Here's a pic from this morning:

 

cool
Progress yes, but not nearly as much as I would have liked. Grandparents coming up and my sister graduating really really killed more time than I ever thought possiable.

 

that the Maxima is Nissan's flagship.

 

and that means what for parts prices?


I stuffed rags into Chris's engine

 

Merely that the Maxima is Nissan most expensive sedan. That is why the prices are jacked. I did some quarter-panel work on my maxima and somehow lost that little trim piece that fits at the bottom of the panel, behind the wheel.... 30 something dollars. I was like WHOA!!! Good thing they're easy to come by in junkyards Or even the escutcheon, you know, the trim that fits around the door locks, $11 dollars. Seems pricey to me, but my love for my Maxima makes me give in... sometimes. I'm sure you know where I'm coming from.

-Sean

 

Dealerships are dealerships, and it doesn't matter what make.

In addition to the max, I've got a 95 Chevy Blazer and recently priced a replacement wheel for the spare...$125 for a steel wheel and $250 for the aluminum wheels that are on the vehicle. Similar story on a replacement alternator...fortunately NAPA had a good lifetime warranty alternator for much less...

I'm sure that you all do, and I know there are some parts that you just can't get anywhere else but from the dealer, but you just gotta make the best use of salvage yards and other parts houses...

That's just life, I guess...although I'm betting the dealer parts for BMW, Porsche, Infinity, etc. (even the Hummer) are all higher than what we see with the Maxima.

 

maybe. the 4th gen i30 and maxima are essentially the same under the hood, so us i30 owner's only get raped by nissan stealerships, not infiniti stealerships. i guess that's the lesser of two evils.

 

lololol! Chris' engine is "ON THE RAG!!!"

sorry, i had to.

 

Would you guys stop using wheels as a price comparison.

try using something that is actually available new at some where other than the dealer

 

i think that's the point...if it's available new other than the dealer the part itself would be cheaper.

 

that O'ring is available aftermarket, just need a sample.

 

Ha- a man after my own heart...where there's a will, there's a way, I always say.

I would agree that for SOME things, the dealer is the way to go. But that list gets smaller and smaller as time goes on. (And Internetautomart's gets bigger and bigger).

 

 

Actually. One would only have to Measure the thickness and diameter. Get a place to make them in the appropiate material. Not hard to doo-doo.

 

If one's car did not have it when bought it, one cannot take it somewhere/get it made/blah blah blah.

meow

 

What's keeping you from having one made and returning the original?

 

I dunno, where would I have one made? lol