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Ripped off!! Because shes a woman???

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    #32
    cjmcork
    Registered Users Posts: 2,354 ✭✭✭cjmcork


    excuse me, that's a bit much, don't you think.......I might have one of those stickers for all you know


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    #33
    cjt156
    Registered Users Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭cjt156


    Darragh29 wrote: »
    To the poster above, can you take the time to acquaint yourself with accurate terminlogy before using stupid phrases like "spurious" in the above context?
    Terrontress wrote: »
    Are the words spurious and approximately being confused there?

    I've heard term "spurious" used by mechanics, motor factors and others in the trade. Refers to after-market or patterned parts; ie copies of OEM parts.


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    #34
    BeardyGit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,946 ✭✭✭BeardyGit


    cjt156 wrote: »
    I've heard term "spurious" used by mechanics, motor factors and others in the trade. Refers to after-market or patterned parts; ie copies of OEM parts.


    Quite right. In fairness Darragh29, you might want to acquaint yourself with terminology that is (rightly or wrongly) in common use in your trade. I've heard it many, many times, all around this fine country of ours.

    Not all are cunning linguists.

    Gil


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    #35
    craichoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,706 ✭✭✭craichoe


    cjt156 wrote: »
    I've heard term "spurious" used by mechanics, motor factors and others in the trade. Refers to after-market or patterned parts; ie copies of OEM parts.

    Not true,

    VW MAF Filter would be an OEM Part
    Original Equipment Manufacturer

    Bosch MAF Filter - Same part but not with a VW Badge on it would be a spurious part, not OEM but the perception is that the part is made cheaply in china or somewhere by some company called volkzvoogen


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    #36
    Tefral
    Registered Users Posts: 4,358 ✭✭✭Tefral


    cjt156 wrote: »
    I've heard term "spurious" used by mechanics, motor factors and others in the trade. Refers to after-market or patterned parts; ie copies of OEM parts.

    I think he was being pedantic.

    Spurious from the dictionary:"not genuine, authentic, or true"

    Seeing as i grew up in a mechanics family, i am well aware of the term and how its used in the trade.

    Anyway this is a little off topic


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    #37
    Terrontress
    Registered Users Posts: 3,900 ✭✭✭Terrontress


    Well surely it would only be spurious if the mechanic claimed it to be OEM when it wasn't. Does spurious not imply some element of dishonesty?


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    #38
    Tefral
    Registered Users Posts: 4,358 ✭✭✭Tefral


    Terrontress wrote: »
    Well surely it would only be spurious if the mechanic claimed it to be OEM when it wasn't. Does spurious not imply some element of dishonesty?

    In the literal sense of the word yes it would.. But in the motor trade a suprious part is one that doesnt come from the main stealer so to speak.

    its funny really as lets say in the case of this ladys brake problem. The mechanic could have went down to the dealer and got the OEM part. You could go to a motorfactors and get brakes from a company say "blue print" when the OEM part could still be made by Blue Print but with a Dealer badge on it and an inflated price


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    #39
    brian ireland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭brian ireland


    If labor is about 50 euro and pads are 24 euro.(74 yoyos) are people saying the original pads for the car are not 24 but 84 Euro so its right to ask for 130 Euro?? Before you say yes. I cant believe the difference can be 60 euro,


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    L-M
    Registered Users Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    brian ireland wrote: »
    If labor is about 50 euro and pads are 24 euro.(74 yoyos) are people saying the original pads for the car are not 24 but 84 Euro so its right to ask for 130 Euro?? Before you say yes. I cant believe the difference can be 60 euro,

    You wouldn't believe the difference between some OEM and Spurious parts.


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    Alun
    Registered Users Posts: 21,466 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Gil_Dub wrote: »
    Quite right. In fairness Darragh29, you might want to acquaint yourself with terminology that is (rightly or wrongly) in common use in your trade. I've heard it many, many times, all around this fine country of ours.l
    So have I, but nowhere else in the world apart from here. Elsewhere it tends not to be used for inanimate objects, but only for abstract things, e.g. a spurious argument or (in my line of work, IT) a spurious interrupt, say.

    I thought it sounded just "wrong" when I first heard it used in this context, and still do.


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    #42
    maidhc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,667 ✭✭✭maidhc


    Alun wrote: »
    So have I, but nowhere else in the world apart from here.

    Yes, but they don't have gob****es and langers in those other places either. :D


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    #43
    colly10
    Registered Users Posts: 3,008 ✭✭✭colly10


    Mechanics use the word spurious to refer to a part which is a copy of an OEM part.


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    #44
    slimjimmc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,786 ✭✭✭slimjimmc


    craichoe wrote: »
    Not true,

    VW MAF Filter would be an OEM Part
    Original Equipment Manufacturer

    Bosch MAF Filter - Same part but not with a VW Badge on it would be a spurious part, not OEM but the perception is that the part is made cheaply in china or somewhere by some company called volkzvoogen


    VW MAF Filter would be an Genuine Part (made by an OEM such as Bosch but sold through vehicle manufacturer's official parts channel)

    Bosch MAF Filter would be an OEM Part made exactly the same spec and quality as the Genuine Part but sold via a separate channel such as motor factors.

    volkzvoogen would be a spurious part not made by an OEM and may or may not be up to the same quality.


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