Just a little rant here, bear with me.
Crusing along the Motorway the other day with me and the girlfriend in the 110, doing about 60 I pulled out to overtake a lorry to be met with no power, not usual and I knew I'd felt it before. Once coming back from down south it did it and turned out to be an injector pipe blew. I pulled back in and tried to keep it up with the flow but sure enough it was that.
Bodged it together enough to get me home and then started looking around for prices for new parts. Seeing as this was the 2nd pipe to go I'm replacing all four. Local LR Specialist quoted me "around £10" for the pipes and so I took that as good money, with overnight postage was looking at around £40 with VAT.
Tried local LR Dealer just on the off chance. At first they couldn't find any parts because of the age of my vehicle then when they did they quoted me £21.39+VAT each. Hang on, that's over double the price from my local guy. Told LR Parts guy to call me an ambulance ("your an ambulance") then hung up. Ordered of the specialist.
Came today. £7.50 each and they've not charged me for the overnight delivery. Total cost £30.05 where as Dealer would have been well over £60.00.
How can dealers get away with such extreme prices? The parts are Offical Land Rover and even carry the green oval on them.