Explain the 300 dollar shock to me, What the... Options

[emerygt350]

An insert for 275? What and why? Is it just rarity? Some strange one off design that no other car uses?

[rick 918-S]

Same deal with 914-4 CV's. It totally baffles me that a car will huge production numbers has common wear parts that are either NLA, has substandard reproduction copies or is priced like they are gold plated. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/screwy.gif)

[Superhawk996]

Same deal with 914-4 CV's. It totally baffles me that a car will huge production numbers has common wear parts that are either NLA, has substandard reproduction copies or is priced like they are gold plated. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/screwy.gif)

100,000 or so 914s are not huge production numbers by anyone’s standards.

Even less on the road when you consider rust, accidents, and long term disrepair.

Quite honestly - we are extremely fortunate to have a vendor base as large as we do for a niche vehicle.

[rick 918-S]

Same deal with 914-4 CV's. It totally baffles me that a car will huge production numbers has common wear parts that are either NLA, has substandard reproduction copies or is priced like they are gold plated. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/screwy.gif)

100,000 or so 914s are not huge production numbers by anyone’s standards.

Even less on the road when you consider rust, accidents, and long term disrepair.

Quite honestly - we are extremely fortunate to have a vendor base as large as we do for a niche vehicle.

914-4's are not the only car that uses the 94mm 33 spline CV joints. 912's share these parts also. There has to be other manufactures, maybe early BMW 2002 or others. I am not saying our vendors shouldn't make a profit. I'm saying their options to sell parts are too limited.

[Superhawk996]

Same deal with 914-4 CV's. It totally baffles me that a car will huge production numbers has common wear parts that are either NLA, has substandard reproduction copies or is priced like they are gold plated. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/screwy.gif)

100,000 or so 914s are not huge production numbers by anyone’s standards.

Even less on the road when you consider rust, accidents, and long term disrepair.

Quite honestly - we are extremely fortunate to have a vendor base as large as we do for a niche vehicle.

914-4's are not the only car that uses the 94mm 33 spline CV joints. 912's share these parts also. There has to be other manufactures, maybe early BMW 2002 or others. I am not saying our vendors shouldn't make a profit. I'm saying their options to sell parts are too limited.

Fully agree

But even including stuff like 912 and 2002 it’s still niche to anyone considering the big $$ for tooling up something like a CV joint.

Much easier to amortize across millions of VW bugs across the world vs a 100k - 200k of something for example.