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!

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lol, what a D******.

I had the local Rebel Spares GIVE me their old stock mini parts, lol.

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No more Minis!......For now.

oh I can't believe a rip off Mini parts guy!!!!
get used to it nothing new in decades

err...he's not a mini parts guy...he's a local spare parts shop...ALL his cables had $40 on them.

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Buy push bike brake cables

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My greatest fear in life is that when I die my wife will sell my Mini and tools for the price I told her I paid for them!

Thats what I'm using at the moment, $4 from Big W.I suppose I should get a proper cable at some stage.

Have - don't like 'em - a proper teflon lined cable is only $7.50 from KC..

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All adds up, especially when you break them once a month like Josh does...

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Too many cars, and too little time.

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.

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

All garage work involves equal measures of enthusiasm, ingenuity and a fair degree of irresponsibility.

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.

from the chaser? it's MADNESS!!!! these cables simply cannot leave the building!

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78 Leyland Mini - Prince

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!!

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1994 rover racecar

[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?

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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.

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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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