Why are these odometer gears so expensive?!

[BillBrasky]

I feel like such a baller just because I wouldn't hesitate to pay $100 to fix my odometer if it was needed.

[Roysneon]

Jesus fuck I feel like I'm back on a Neon forum.

My car doesn't work and I have to pay $100 to fix it! Fuck that; that's not fair!

[Blackout]

I want to go to Electronic waste processing facility and break a bunch of radios and cassette players. They have similar gears. something may work...LOL.

[newman]

We recently had a steel mold for an injection molded part roughly the size of the larger gear and it was 25,000 dollars. Even a low volume aluminum mold would be on the order of 5,000 dollars. That's not going to change much based on the size of the part, as each mold needs gates, ejectors, sinks, etc. The tooling cost for those two gears is likely almost the same.

If you want to get a rough idea for part tooling costs, check out http://www.protomold.com

If someone wants to send me some of these gears i can probably run it on my rapid prototyping machine and see if they hold up, but I could certainly sell them for about 25 per set... the downside is the material it produces is only abut 2/3 the strength of ABS plastic. Shoot me a PM if you're actually interested...

read about it here:

http://newman.onyxsyndicate.com/e30gtr/e30gtr_98.html

[bernzpeed]

The key to take care of your gears is don't reset it while the car is moving. Reset it only when at stop.

[bernzpeed]

Count the # of gears and then go to a hobby shop that sells RC stuff and get it there for $5. That's what I did.

[Broom Broom]

check out ebay, got a set of all the 3 that you need for about $25

[sweet6e30]

with a BMW you get high class Ho's , with a 5.0 mustang you get trailer park fat ho


take your pick!

[long tall eta]

same reason a oem o2 sensor is 140.00 and a 1990 5.0 mustang sensor is 40.00.

THEY R BMW'S AND FOR THAT, WE PAY

[davem]

Very small market for these and he provides them for all cars. If he sold them for cheap he wouldn't make enough money to justify selling them and then you wouldn't be able to get them anywhere.

[yert315]

Odometergears.com is the only place that sells quality gears. And the only place that sells the full set of Motometer gears to boot. I think his $85 price tag is justifiable seeing that he's the ONLY one making these for us in the market.

You can get a $15 set of VDO gears off some guy on these forums if you want to give that a shot. However VDO and Motometer gears do not interchange.

[dude8383]

Whoa there, you seemed to have pulled what I said completely out of context. I never said making gears was part of my job. I work in the BMX industry, the company I work for deals directly with our manufactures of all the components so I understand the costs of tooling and the actual manufacturing of the product is what I meant. I'm not trying to start a bickering thread here, I was just surprised of the cost. If there's cheaper alternatives I'll go that route...or I'll suck it up and pay or not have a working odometer.

Nah, I guess it read wrong, I knew what you meant... I figured that if this is sorta thing you dabble with at work, you could make it happen. I wasn't necessarily targeting the production of gears themselves.

In any case... you gotta pay to play with older cars like this. The support is just not there.

Having said that, I've been working on something with a buddy of mine that could solve the hole "gears" issue. But that's still in the works.

[Nick_S]

Actually, I'm with Jean. Quit whining about it. If you think its too expensive make your own since its "part of your job"

Make it for less and market it to the E30 people... you'll see that you'll get barely any commercial business from here because everyone here is a fucking penny pincher... yes I'm generalizing, but there are only a select few here that are willing to pay.

Whoa there, you seemed to have pulled what I said completely out of context. I never said making gears was part of my job. I work in the BMX industry, the company I work for deals directly with our manufactures of all the components so I understand the costs of tooling and the actual manufacturing of the product is what I meant. I'm not trying to start a bickering thread here, I was just surprised of the cost. If there's cheaper alternatives I'll go that route...or I'll suck it up and pay or not have a working odometer.

[thedguy]

Odo gears are hard to come by. My odo stopped working I need to fix it but I'm not paying 85 bucks for 4 gears fuck that rather have my odo not working lol

I paid it once, pile of trash they were. Broke after 19k, not even a fucking year!

[dude8383]

No shit, I understand the process of making products very well, it's part of my job. Stop being emo? What are you like 12?

Actually, I'm with Jean. Quit whining about it. If you think its too expensive make your own since its "part of your job"

Make it for less and market it to the E30 people... you'll see that you'll get barely any commercial business from here because everyone here is a fucking penny pincher... yes I'm generalizing, but there are only a select few here that are willing to pay.