Typically around here getting suddenly mobile often involves compromises, when time trumps good sense and/or other related habits of economy.
Looking at my bank balance on-line recently, I noticed a huge expense of over $400 I couldn't imagine the source of; at the local NAPA store here. Phoning, they soon identified this as mostly the new distributor I had to install near the beginning of August; as oil was leaking from the motor into the inside of the cap.
I've never spent anything like that for a distributor before, though this could've been decades ago; and wonder how much a phenomena of inflation and the current depressed economy this is, or maybe the particular units are unusually expensive-as the person at NAPA suggested is true with Mazda units-the one for the Festiva is one of.
The new cap was also one with contacts which seemed to be made of steel rather than copper or brass; so since probably inferior, I was disappointed with spending so much on that level too.
The distributor itself also seemed made by other than a factory concern, since rather than the part numbers being stamped into the base, a plastic tag with the data on that was glued in the same place, which seems threatening to come off. The distributor itself does seem well enough made however, and the cap also looks well done despite the cheaper seeming contacts...nice if stainless steel! At least not aluminum.
I'm now guessing that with the lack of local wrecking yards due to a strong environmentalist consciousness here of the NIMBY type; there is also a generally lower level of automotive culture too? Perhaps elsewhere better pricing could be found?
Newcomers like one fellow here from Vietnam or another from Poland, really like to jump on the bandwagon; threatening a person with expulsion if anything local is criticized. Easy to imagine reflecting a right-wing, reactionary agenda; so probably superficial, the way immigrant populations are always exploited in this country by capitalists-to threaten more established workers.
Looking at my bank balance on-line recently, I noticed a huge expense of over $400 I couldn't imagine the source of; at the local NAPA store here. Phoning, they soon identified this as mostly the new distributor I had to install near the beginning of August; as oil was leaking from the motor into the inside of the cap.
I've never spent anything like that for a distributor before, though this could've been decades ago; and wonder how much a phenomena of inflation and the current depressed economy this is, or maybe the particular units are unusually expensive-as the person at NAPA suggested is true with Mazda units-the one for the Festiva is one of.
The new cap was also one with contacts which seemed to be made of steel rather than copper or brass; so since probably inferior, I was disappointed with spending so much on that level too.
The distributor itself also seemed made by other than a factory concern, since rather than the part numbers being stamped into the base, a plastic tag with the data on that was glued in the same place, which seems threatening to come off. The distributor itself does seem well enough made however, and the cap also looks well done despite the cheaper seeming contacts...nice if stainless steel! At least not aluminum.
I'm now guessing that with the lack of local wrecking yards due to a strong environmentalist consciousness here of the NIMBY type; there is also a generally lower level of automotive culture too? Perhaps elsewhere better pricing could be found?
Newcomers like one fellow here from Vietnam or another from Poland, really like to jump on the bandwagon; threatening a person with expulsion if anything local is criticized. Easy to imagine reflecting a right-wing, reactionary agenda; so probably superficial, the way immigrant populations are always exploited in this country by capitalists-to threaten more established workers.
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