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Most expensive 9-5 part? Posted by Larry West [Email] ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Per pound, that is...
While poking around a green 9-5 at a junkyard this past weekend, I recalled that I needed the little felt "carpets" that line the bottom of the rear seat door pockets. The ashtrays, which all very early 9-5s came equipped with, don't use the carpet, the ashtray actually clipping through the bottom of that pocket.
So, I managed to pluck them out (some previous soul made the job easier by taking the speakers...) & carry them home with me from this later 1999.
When I got home, I was intrigued by one thing. I had looked these up in the EPC, then got the price off of a site sponsor's site. If they were, say, under $5 the pair, I'd probably just have ordered them. But no, they come up as $20.00 and $19.00 (no idea why one is more than the other...). So I was thinking what is the price per pound for these things...
After getting them from the yard, I tried to weigh them on my food scale. One didn't register at all, two registered at 2 grams. So, I used 0.75 grams as the weight of one of these little carpets to figure the price per pound.
0.075 grams is 0.00165 pounds. The inverse gives us 606.06 units per pound, and at $20/19 each, a total of $12,121.21/$11,515.14 per pound...
Pretty pricy, eh?
The only things that might be more per pound I'd think would be individual electric contacts for the wiring connectors, and maybe those darned dash bulbs...
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