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New Radiator price suspicions (for my Xantia not Lude)

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 4:25 pm
by wurlycorner
Need to replace the rad in the Xantia (one of the jobs queuing up to be finished on it :roll: )

Obviously I don't want to pay more than I have to, and considering they come with a 2 year warranty, why am I suspicious about this nice and cheaply priced part?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CITROEN-XANTI ... 327wt_1275

Also why the arse does what seems to be the same part (looking at the diagram) seem to be on sale with the same vendor at 3 different prices? (£59 above)

£60;
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CITROEN-XANTI ... 391wt_1275

£69;
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CITROEN-XANTI ... 063wt_1275

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 6:10 pm
by mercutio
citreon were buggers for revisions to spec and the last one looks like its for a different model

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 6:16 pm
by jozefsan
french cars never order online, pay £ more and get it from local supplier, it will save you money time and headache

Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 9:26 am
by Donald
jozefsan wrote:french cars, never get, it will save you money time and headache

Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 11:31 am
by wurlycorner
:P

Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2014 4:43 pm
by wurlycorner
I need a nearside rear foglight/reversing light too (lense is cracked). GSF list one.
IainAPotentialCustomerWrote wrote:Hi, part number 956PC0180 says it's for RH. Is that drivers side or passenger side? Thanks.
GSFCarPartsOnlineCustomerServicesWhoObviouslyDon'tWantThePotentialCustom wrote:This is for the right hand side
:roll: :tosser:

So even though for the rad, they're £35 cheaper than a guy I've been using for decades (located just round the corner from @h10ndr in Victoria Road, as it happens) I'm going with him!!!

I do like to go back to him anyway tbh - I might only ring him once every 2 or 3 years now (literally) but whenever I do, he still knows exactly who I am by name! :D

He also has on the shelf a genuine Citroen boxed light for that side, complete with bulb holder (result, because I've already bought one without the bulb holder and it uses a different bloody bulb holder to the existing one on the car! :troll: )

Job done! (or rather, jobs now to do...)