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Accelerator Cable Madness $40!!
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Author:  Mini Mad [ Tue Jul 03, 2007 5:59 pm ]
Post subject:  Accelerator Cable Madness $40!!
Went to buy a new Accelerator cable the other day and i walk in the store with Em and ask the guy at the counter if he has any mini throttle cables. Guy pauses, walks out the back and comes back a bit later with one in his hand covered in dust - looked like it had been out the back for 30years!

Now this is just a local parts shop and when he handed it to me i noticed the price on it written in texta $39.95 for a freaking bit of wire - i asked him what the price was and he looks at the pack and goes ahhh umm..Thirty niiiine..lets make it thirty dollars - i suitably told him there was no way in hell i was paying $30 for a cable and walked out..couldn't believe it.

I mean he wouldn't even get any business with the likes of Repco and Supercheap these days - some people just shouldn't be in business!
Author:  Maxi23 [ Tue Jul 03, 2007 6:03 pm ]
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lol, what a D******.

I had the local Rebel Spares GIVE me their old stock mini parts, lol.
Author:  TK [ Tue Jul 03, 2007 6:14 pm ]
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oh I can't believe a rip off Mini parts guy!!!!
get used to it nothing new in decades ;)
Author:  Mini Mad [ Tue Jul 03, 2007 6:24 pm ]
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err...he's not a mini parts guy...he's a local spare parts shop...ALL his cables had $40 on them. :?
Author:  Wombat [ Tue Jul 03, 2007 6:34 pm ]
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Buy push bike brake cables
Author:  Drekkus [ Tue Jul 03, 2007 6:44 pm ]
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Wombat wrote:
Buy push bike brake cables


Thats what I'm using at the moment, $4 from Big W.I suppose I should get a proper cable at some stage.
Author:  Mini Mad [ Tue Jul 03, 2007 6:50 pm ]
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Have - don't like 'em - a proper teflon lined cable is only $7.50 from KC..
Author:  awdmoke [ Tue Jul 03, 2007 6:59 pm ]
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All adds up, especially when you break them once a month like Josh does...
Author:  Mick [ Tue Jul 03, 2007 7:08 pm ]
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Mini Mad wrote:
Have - don't like 'em - a proper teflon lined cable is only $7.50 from KC..


I spend up and get the goochi you beaut teflon lined bike brake cables for 7 dollars. There's different gauges of bike gear or brake cable, the thicker brake cables are the ones to use.
Author:  Drewus [ Tue Jul 03, 2007 7:53 pm ]
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http://classicmotoring.net.au/cmos/inde ... cPath=1_42

There you go, 3 different kinds of cable with the cheapest being 10 bucks.

Great bunch of guys at Classic Motoring aswell, and incredibly fast delivery.
Author:  Dylans Clubby [ Wed Jul 04, 2007 12:37 am ]
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crazy warehouse guy wrote:
Accelerator Cable Madness $40!!


from the chaser? it's MADNESS!!!! these cables simply cannot leave the building!
Author:  mad-mk1 [ Wed Jul 04, 2007 9:15 am ]
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i made one on our corolla out of binder twin, it worked, then it snapped and we were in a paddock, so it went out the bonnet, and we had throttle with your hand out the window, interesting feeling that!!
Author:  Mort Subite [ Wed Jul 04, 2007 10:26 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Accelerator Cable Madness $40!!
[quote="Mini Mad"]- i suitably told him there was no way in hell i was paying $30 for a cable and walked out..couldn't believe it.

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Fair enough I guess, but was it an original Mini spare part - or just an after market bike cable?
Author:  Mini Mad [ Wed Jul 04, 2007 11:19 am ]
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I don't know what you mean by genuine mini - it wasn't made by BMC or Leyland or anything (as if they ever made them) but it was a proper throttle cable not a bike cable.

We bought a NOS Mini one from Mini King on the Sunday and it cost ~$5 and it was just as good!

This is why they try and charge so much for a piece of why cause people do pay that much for them cause they're 'genuine' and then they add 'cooper s' tax and what not...it's a bloody piece of wire that does a job.
Author:  Mort Subite [ Wed Jul 04, 2007 11:39 am ]
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Mini Mad wrote:
I don't know what you mean by genuine mini - it wasn't made by BMC or Leyland or anything (as if they ever made them) but it was a proper throttle cable not a bike cable.

We bought a NOS Mini one from Mini King on the Sunday and it cost ~$5 and it was just as good!

This is why they try and charge so much for a piece of why cause people do pay that much for them cause they're 'genuine' and then they add 'cooper s' tax and what not...it's a bloody piece of wire that does a job.


Yeah, I meant genuine as in NOS, you know, something in a BMC/Leyland bag.

Sounds like you got the better deal from the dedicated Mini suppliers.

I'd be using genuine or NOS over a 'bike cable' simply coz its gonna be easier to fit as it was made for the job. Mini parts as so cheap.
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