Hello Robert, It sounds like you want to have your cake and eat it too! How can a vender, or anybody else, provide you with high quality rebuilt parts without having a previously acquired source of cores? Use your common sense! It's no ones fault you need to restore your car and drive it at the same time! Sincerely, Robert Grady -----Original Message----- From: therealdmcvegas [mailto:dmcvegas@xxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 11:42 AM To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [DML] Re: Fuel Pickup Hose No, I'm not saving parts. It's just that when you take a car that is a rolling restoration, and use it as a daily driver, it's your only car, AND you're restoring it on a budget... Core charges can be a bit cost prohibitive for certain repairs. Such as my brake system. $30 for a Master Cylinder, and $400 for my calipers is a bit too pricey for me to complete the project all at once. Even though I realize that I get the money back, I'd much rather not have to figure in such high core charges. Otherwise if my car wasn't a daily driver, I'd just send the parts in ahead of time before ordering, to avoid the charge all together. Now the other problem is that I truly don't know if I will get my entire core fees back. The majority of problems that I've had to sort thru on my car have been caused from both neglect, and incompetent mechanics. And the use of substandard parts as well. I've had a clutch slave cylinder before that was welded, and couldn't get full value for it back. Understandable, since it was physicly damaged. But since vendors require true DeLorean parts upon return, and who knows what parts have been installed onto my car by the past owner, I've no clue as to how much of my core charges, if any, I will get back. -Robert vin 6585 "X" --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Dave Swingle" <swingle@xxxx> wrote: > Why don't you just return the bad cores? Then the charge makes no > difference. Are you saving old bad parts for some reason? > > Dave S > > > > > Discounts are great IMO, but easing up on those core charges sure > > would make things even easier! > > > > -Robert > > vin 6585 "X" To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/