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Went to a Comet special Bosch today WFD2471, made in Spain I believe.
This machine required a new power module,the price from BSH total with VAT and Carriage is £308.27. 😮
The machine must have been less than that new, its only a basic board, no variable spin, no display window etc.
And so the domestic appliance scrap mountain just gets bigger every day 😥
Ps The SRP price from Connect £387.16 😆
GrahamRe: Outrageous parts prices!
I was called out to a Neff oven, the clock blown on an all electronic model, they want over £220 for the module, the customer went potty when I quoted her the price for the part, she phoned Neff herself soon after I left, then phoned me back to say sorry for disputing the price I’d quoted.
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yes i know were your coming from here iv had few customers gone beserk when its time for the price,
maybe we should all propose to bosch to begin to stock a comfortable standard issue chair at a reasonable price of course, for sitting the customers down first before giving them the quote
i bet Alf Garnett would have a thing or too to say about this! 😆
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Forget the chair this stuff cheaper
http://www.firstaidwarehouse.co.uk/xpp- … ling+Salts
😉
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Hi
After looking at this yesterday I decided to have a delve 😉
The WFD2471 has three variants in its range.WFD2471GB/01 and WFD2471GB/08, which both use module 493685 @£255.36 + the usual. 😯
WFD2471GB/10, which uses module 440882 @£91.00 +the usual 😕
So what gives, as they look the same module as per diagram :con:Greg
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Thanks For looking into this Greg.
This was a GB/08. I rang up BSH while in the customers house giving the full model number and that was the price they gave me. 😯
Even at £91+ I doubt if they would have had the job done as the element was the cause of the blown board 😥 but yes £91+ is a big difference and gives you a fighting chance.
Thanks again.
GrahamRe: Outrageous parts prices!
Priced up a Whirlpool integrated DW job the other day for a nameless insurer, well over £300 in three parts for a four year old machine and it got a green light. I can’t recall what badge it was wearing.
I could have bought and installed a Haier for less, but I’m not that cruel. 😆
What winds me up about that is that there’s no way on Earth that the parts cost that money and I know it. You’d be lucky if the ex-factory cost was over £100 for all three parts. Really annoying.
Or a washing machine motor for a Beko at over £100 on a machine that retails for under £100, it’s just plain crazy and a total rip off IMO.
K.
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Just hope that the price of new appliances goes through the roof then we may get an increase in repair work. 😆
No doubt the manufactures will increase spare parts prices to spoil our fun 😆
Thank heavens for limescale and the penny in pump jobs 😆
And yes Ken Whirlpool are one of the worst on spare parts prices especially as their finished products are in the budget sector.
Had to fit a door seal to a WPL washing m/c a while ago, £60 just for the seal, she said she only paid £200 for the machine new 😥
GrahamRe: Outrageous parts prices!
Connect currently have a special offer on Hotpoint pumps, £3.65 each if you order 1 or 2, £3.70 each if you order 3 😆 😆
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Phidom wrote:Connect currently have a special offer on Hotpoint pumps, £3.65 each if you order 1 or 2, £3.70 each if you order 3 😆 😆
but you cant fit to bosch 😀
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pup wrote
but you cant fit to bosch
Course you can… elastic band, tape, silicon sealant and hope. Anything will fit then. Believe me ….I’ve followed him up on a call 😯 .
TC
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The price of electronic modules nowadays should be dirt cheap anyway as they are almost totally machine produced. The basic cost of the surface mounted componants is peanuts including the microcontrollers which are mass produced and can be programmed for any appliance and this is to joe bloggs. At the quantities that the manufacturers use the cost must be unbelieveably low. The only real cost will be the initial design and tooling up but again this will be mostly automated.
I would think that the actual production cost of the average module will not be not be more than a few quid considering the quantities involved. And i would bet that manufacturers are not paying much more than about £20 – £25 + vat IF THAT.
Andy
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Not for REMCO apparently. I’m reliably told that they are put together by Italian housewives on part time shifts, maybe that’s why they’re rubbish and keep blowing up. 😆
Cost for them, I was told, is about £15.
Mass produced ones, not in small batches, will often be below £10 for the basic ones like simple speed control modules.
And, given we can sell to trade a board for an ISE2 at under £30 I KNOW that many are taking the proverbial with the prices.
K.
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