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Post by weirdfish » Fri May 25, 2012 11:39 am

Good old sensor question, best place to obtain one, rear one needed, main dealers or are the ones on flee bay ok, they say genuine, but is that eBay genuine, or genuine genuine.

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Post by dirtymonkey29 » Fri May 25, 2012 1:35 pm

Partsgateway, just don't buy from raw spares

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Post by jaynana » Wed Jul 18, 2012 9:23 pm

good old sensor question from me too. issue has come back (last time it went away on its own.. )

checked with the scanner, its the front right corner and i disabled the front for now.

want to get it fixed... before mrs manages to reshape a corner!

entered an enquiry in partsgateway just now. awaiting quotes.

also any reliable ebay sellers anybody knows about for this part? or any other sources.. other than the stealers pls.
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Post by jaynana » Thu Jul 19, 2012 3:43 pm

nobody has replied through partsgateway with any quotes so far.. i sent in the request last night.

is that normal? .. doesn't seem to be?
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Post by dirtymonkey29 » Thu Jul 19, 2012 8:53 pm

Have you logged into parts gateway and reviewed quotes?

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Post by jaynana » Thu Jul 19, 2012 10:04 pm

yeah there were 16 responses, all with 'does not have the item(s) in stock.'.

maybe cos i didn't provide the part number last time. entered another search today.

also entered into another site i've known from before - breakyard.com.

lets see what comes out of both..

last option is fleabay, but mostly non-oem which is not a path i like to go..
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Post by dirtymonkey29 » Thu Jul 19, 2012 10:43 pm

Pretty common part so will probably need correct number

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Post by shadrack » Fri Jul 20, 2012 10:22 am

someone will point you the right way but rover ones are the same and cost £22 brand new
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Post by Phil D » Fri Jul 20, 2012 11:14 am

If it's a straight one you're after i just got one from here.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=221060731547#ht_2526wt_1218

It took just over a week to arrive, so far works fine.
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Post by jaynana » Fri Jul 20, 2012 11:36 am

[quote="dirtymonkey29"]
Partsgateway, just don't buy from raw spares
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what happened here? raw spares has quoted £30 +vat! no other quotes so far...

heres what i can see about them?
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Post by dirtymonkey29 » Fri Jul 20, 2012 5:32 pm

Noooo don't touch them, took 3 weeks of constantly ringing them to send a sensor, finally sent it and it was wrong, then took nearly two more weeks after chasing daily to get the correct one which eventually arrive but was painted silver, I gave up and just sprayed it myself.  There rude when you ring them and don't sound like they can be arsed at all, and you'll never get a return call from them.
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Post by jaynana » Sat Jul 28, 2012 9:58 pm

cheers mate i took your advise.

given that its a 'non critical' component and only raw spares quoted i went the fleabay path.

part came this week and i fixed it today. front pdcs back in action again. (mrs didn't get a chance! hehe)

here's the seller if anybody else wants to buy a facelift front corner pdc.. seemed a decent seller - sent me his phone number as well in the post in case i had trouble fixing it - which he didn't have to, i didn't need it though..
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