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Fully agree with what you are saying.

I do have some beef with the prices of these electronic gadgets in the car. 300€ price for a new sensor or something similar? Sensor costs are usually a single digit or below. Somehow vendors found a way to inflate that price and this is destroying the repairability.

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With the prices of sensors, I was astonished and I thought the garage was having me on. I looked up the prices online and the garage weren't taking the mickey (it was withing 10-15% of what they quoted me).

Car manufactures make probably more money on parts than selling new cars

They do. But they make even more on interest from financing. And interest depends on the price you pay, so cheap cars cut into their profits.

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