Bit of an aside, but years ago when I worked for the local Austin/Rover dealership we had a Mini Moke brought in with a "seized engine" - turned out the owner was a teenage lad, and his dad had told him to make sure he topped up the engine oil - which he did - right to the top of the rocker cover. Caused a lot of laughs in the workshop... ;-)
I was wondering that - it was the only explanation.
TT (Don Kayatt in France are the EU importer) have a massive mark up for their dealers on all TT parts. we are being ripped off by DK more than by their dealers.. 4x4 Works sell their stuff at a reduced mark up so is always a good place to check first. For example I just purchased a Harrop Elocker. I had a friend in Australia send it over. Here it costs £1500, (sold via TT) cost me £750 retail, plus about £100 carriage, add VAT and duty and that comes to £950, but shipping a container load is much less than my carriage.
Yup, though that's ~£130 in Australia, but £516 in UK. So that's quite a markup of 4x. And if that was the correct price, on what planet is that a reasonable amount for items that at worst cost less than £100.
