yeah........
that is pretty darn high for a used ecu .......
although ..........if they charged an hour to two hours shop time for
diagnosis to figure out that's what the van needed ......
( or sometimes you can spend 5 hours getting to that point )
................that would make the good used ecu more in the 150 to 200
range perhaps .......
I consider 150 ish a pretty 'par good' price ...........and up to 200 for a
'gotta have it now' thing not horribly unreasonable.

on my MS comment about the $ 330......I hadn't relized when I wrote that
that the 330 number came from what it cost to get them going.
But I'l bet they're having an awesome time !
scott

----- Original Message -----
From: "Allan Streib" <streib@CS.INDIANA.EDU>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: 6 guys and vanagon x-country-UPDATE

> Buying a part like that from a shop that has already diagnosed the problem
> is going to cost more.  Typical shop markup on parts is 100%.
>
> IF you know what you need AND you can install it yourself AND you have
> time to wait you can find better deals.
>
> I don't think that price really sounds unreasonable, all things
> considered.  Shops have to make a living too.
>
> Allan
>
>
> On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:20 -0500, "John Rodgers" <inua@CHARTER.NET> wrote:
>
>> Oh, man! The guys really got ripped off on that computer. But if that is
>> all there was, and waiting for one of lower cost to be be shipped in was
>> going to jam their time schedule - there wasn't a whole lot to be done
>> but get on with it. But I sure do hate seeing/hearing of someone being
>> taken advantage of just because.....!
>>
>> John Rodgers
>> 88 GL Driver
>>
>> Ted Titcomb wrote:
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Payson Titcomb [mailto:paysonpayson@aol.com]
>> > Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 8:36 AM
>> > To: Titcomb Ted
>> > Subject: A new hope...
>> >
>> > Ok, it's very late, and I've Been driving for 14 hours, so this one is
>> > guna be short.
>> > As many of u have probably heard, our computor, which regulates things
>> > such as fuel injection, fried. Last night we slept soundly at a
>> > holiday in not to far from our breakdown in Staunton VA. This morning
>> > we towed the van to a shop, and a nice fellow named patric saved our
>> > trip by selling us a used computor for $330 (and a free key chain).
>> > So, with the van fixed, we decided to ditch new Orleans, and book it
>> > west.
>> > Travel was smooth aside from parts of the appalacian mts. Which took
>> > their toll on velma, asking her to constantly dowshift into 3rd gear,
>> > and once even second.
>> > After we got throught the mts. It was truley smooth sailing all the
>> > way to a park somewhere in Indiana.  We plan to stop in st. Louis for
>> > a good deal of time to see Taiki's relatives, so it made sense to
>> > sleep and finish our three hour drive that morning.
>> > We pulls over, and stayed at leyville park, which is basically a camp
>> > site except u don't have to pay. Well atleast I don't think so...we
>> > got there at 2am and left at six...
>> > So we got to camp and explored till like 3am and then crashed.
>> > Everyone fits in the van, no tent necessary!
>> > Anyway, sorry this was a bad report, I'll try and make it better
>> > tomorrow, or hopefully tonight.
>> > Later kids!
>> >
>> > PAYStheACE
>> >
>> >
>> >