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Originally Posted by RichieJKU2011
Hi banshee ... excellent response and much appreciated, my jeep guy is GDL here in Sydney a good guy and he price was about the 3K mark fitted so will just show him this and ensure hes DOING ALL that work! ,, i live in Sydney and will take any parts but the cost to ship may becomen problems also i will ask if he will fit the parts supplied by me.. hes a good guy but i recon he wants his bucks !
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I think you meant humdingerslammer, there!
Parts aren't always about mechanic markup. It's also a warranty consideration. If the mech does all the work & sources the parts, then they are the one to worry about it all. If you supply parts & it fails soon, then it could be the part, or it could be the mechanic not installing it correctly, and it can turn into a finger pointing competition where you are the only loser.
Having said that, I'll get parts myself if I want certain aftermarket ones, (or especially OEM parts), since buying from FCA can involve a ~500% markup on cost of a part shipped from say Rockauto in the USA.
If you have a mechanic who will use good aftermarket rather than FCA parts, I'd probably do that.
I've got a Centerforce in mine. Had a rattle start to come back fairly soon after, then it started feeling strange & the slave cylinder failed. (It was replaced with the clutch.) It seems to have doused the clutch in DOT3, which started pulsing & has now completely failed after ~30,000km. Replaced the master & slave cylinders and now I'm not sure if it's air in the line that I cannot purge, or the clutch itself. Either way, I'm on the hook for another replacement as soon as I have the money. I have some of the parts, but I don't think I'll bother with another Centerforce, I'll just have the mech used his standard Exidy aftermarket ones.
In the meantime I can't really drive it easily, since I have to turn it off approaching traffic lights & start in 1st to get going again... (I learnt to change gears no clutch long ago, so that's not a big issue.)