Just bought an anti-sink sphere from my local GSF for less than twenty-two quid. It is identical to the old one in every way and came in a Citroen box, so it's what the main dealers would sell. How on earth can they get away with charging seventy quid or more?
Doddle of a job by the way. Took me longer to knock up a removal tool than to change the sphere.
Sphere price rip-off
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Well that's Citroen dealerships for you - but they're no worse than any other main dealer. I wanted a drive belt for my 2.1 Xantia so I rang the local Cit parts dept and gave them the number off the old belt. That wasn't any good - he wanted the vehicle VIN number. I gave him that, only to be told it was £19+VAT but he didn't have one. After five days he still hadn't got it. I went to my little one man accessory shop armed with the belt number at 9.30am. He didn't have one but could get it by mid-day. One Bosch belt, £12.50.
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