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Originally Posted by racepar1
Dude if $200 is a lot of money to you then you need to find a different hobby. I have spent over $10,000 on my car in 2007 alone! A good quality god damn quick release hub is about $200, for a fucking hub! My new r-compounds retail for around $200 each. $200 is fucking chump change to spend on your car, even on a stock car at a repair shop!
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He's right. Why buy cheap subsitutes when you are not sure about the quality. Suspension parts are something that you shouldn't try to cash out on. If a control arm breaks, then you're good as gone. WHy pay $60-100 on China items? (If you even have to assume that they are from China, They are.) Everything is made in China. I am pretty sure I am part Chinese, somehow, who knows?
None the less from experience, I've regret cheaping out on a lot of things. Now my car has the Gucci and Louis Vuitton of parts in it.
$200 is nothing. Considering I got my car for $1,900 plus I put about $9 grand into it. When I calculated the manual labor I've put into the car at $45 dollars an hour. I've spend more than $8,000 dollars worth of labor that a shop would charge. I install, rebuilt, machined, fabricate.
Stop wasting money on Girls, fast food, Cigarettes, Beer, going to Clubs, for a bit, and you'll realize how much you can save.