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There are very few Ebay parts on the car. Fuel system stuff, direct from Bosch as Ebay "Genuine Bosch" is 99% likely to be fake, new turbo from a supplier in Gippsland who could cobble together bits I could not easily lay my hands on to build a turbo to suit Nissan's now quaint looking selection of flanges. Heaps and heaps of connectors through local suppliers (One of which is on Ebay and I buy from him there as he gives free postage compared to charging freight on his main website)
The only place that is giving me grief is the local Autopro I have been buying service stuff from for nearly 20 years, it has changed hands and become a Repco recently. To be honest they are competing with online suppliers as it took me years to break in the old bloke to just order in what I asked for and if I was wrong well tough for me, I would be paying for it anyway. Now I am back having to convince the new staff that I actually know what I am talking about and what I want.
What does get up my nose is some dealership costs, I can vouch for being charged over $60 for $10 wiper blades on my novated lease car. Sometimes they see a lease as a chance to gouge, like the tyre service I had been going to for 20 years until the smashed me full rec retail on tyres because it was a lease car. They forget that the money comes out of my pocket ultimately.
The other bit that gets up my nose is diagnosis via flowchart which some manufacturers insist that their techs use, don't follow and document every step on the flowchart on a warranty job, not getting paid. It takes diagnosis on complex systems out of the brains of some very talented techs and puts it in the hands of people who are not looking at the car in question, and starts with the assumption that if they did not think of it, it can't be happening in the field. IMO it is where things like Alex's "Needs a new gearbox" come from.
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