240 General: MOT Prep.

[c_lee]

My 240 Auto is due for its MOT soon and I crawled underneath it yesterday ( Tues ) morning and noticed I had a leaking rear shock.

Went onto the Internet to look at eBay, GSF and ECP.

Ah - ECP - free delivery it says on their web site and my printout, and their slightly higher price ( £22.94 ) than GSF ( £19.95 ) made them worthwhile.

Rang their 0870 number to order them - they are not the quickest to take an order over the phone even though I quoted the part No to them from the web.
I was on the phone just over 8 minutes in all ( at 0870 rates ).

' Those are free delivery aren't they - it says so on your website ' - Err no I was told - that's only for orders taken on the website - that's what he said.

I was due to leave for work within the hour so ordered them anyway and the delivery charge from my invoice was £8.20 + VAT - didn't expect that, but I and you will know in the future.

Total cost excluding 0870 was £57.91 for two rear Bilstien shocks. That's not too bad.

Hey, but the delivery was very quick, no complaints - they arrived today ( Wed ).
But so was delivery from GSF when I bought my in tank pump from them a few weeks ago.

Worth keeping in mind.

Colin