Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Rip off

[Erik Nielsen (judge4re]

Switching topics slightly, but if you think cars are bad, don't go digging into the watch world.  A friend of mine sent me this article recently.

https://perezcope.com/2021/08/08/panerai-in-house-movements-a-pam-of-worms/

To quote George Carlin, it's all bullshit.  Consumerism, and specifically the so called luxury end of the spectrum, is probably the biggest fraud ever pulled on humanity...

On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 6:20 AM George <ygpz4re [at] hotmail.com> wrote:

Since Clyde brought up his daughter's need for bonnet struts on her Lexus, I also need boot lid struts on the '04 XK8.  So I searched Amazon (have also looked at Rock Auto...) and found several different manufacturers - Boxi, Lesjofors, A-Premium, YHTAuto, and more.

Any advice on how to choose what's good?  Or are they all pretty much the same?  I can pretty easily see some "good" ones being far better than other "good" ones....

Dad told me that he bought parts from a Jag dealer in Knoxville (and I have bought a couple of things there, which I couldn't find anywhere else), but they want about $180 - EACH - for these struts.  It's not a proprietary part, so no reason in the world to pay that crazy money for something as simple as a gas strut.

Anyway, appreciate inputs on how others make their choices on something like this....

Thanks!

gp

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