£40 temp sensor from seat or £12.99 on eBay

[03cupra]

Well the title says it all.. Temp sensor needs replacing, I don't want to £30 extra for nothing. Are the ebay temp sensors OEM as they claim or do they die in a month or two, anyone tried one?

Cheers

 

[towcester vag]

only fit genuine or gsf

 

[BoostHard]

Genuine only.

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[LEE69]

pm seremotors on here get genuine cheaper

 

[xDaNx]

Buy cheap, buy twice.

 

[03cupra]

Cheers Lee...

I assumed the ebay copies would be crap quality but thought I'd ask the question first

 

[ozaudio]

ive had a cheap one from a motor factors for 12 months now, I havnt had any problems with it yet , although they do claim most of there stock is audi/vw with the brand name scratched of

 

[valverjam]

As said, GSF cant go wrong, had one fitted for 2 years no problems at all.

 

[Seal_LCR]

I had one from ECP 18months ago mines been fine

 

[danblowes]

If something is good its not cheap and if somethings cheap its not good!

 

[dazjstuart]

Do you mean the little CTS with the green electrical connection? If so German Auto Spares do them for less than a tenner, can't remember how much exactly. They do genuine stuff too had an N75 from them before.

 

[BoostHard]

They are on eBay, always wondered about their stuff

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[EarlParkly]

I can also recommend German Auto Spares. They do Febi OEM quality ones. Haven't had a bad one (yet), but plenty other cheapo's on eBay have been duffs for me.

 

[googujube]

I got one from dealer few weeks back..pretty sure it wasn't 40 quid. Get a proper one, same with thermostats..

 

[747_727]

I bought one off ebay and it works perfectly. I replaced the thermostat with a mahle one from my local motorfactors and that works perfectly too.

 

[03cupra]

Cheers for the replies, ive had my £17.99 sensor from SC motors in for a week, fitted perfectly and caused me no problems as yet.

I think maybe the £6.99 things off ebay are hit and miss you only have to look at some of the feedback about the things not fitting properly etc

I've never had a problem with anything ive brought from Ajays, SC, ECP etc

 

[BoostHard]

Depends what you buy. Some things from ecp are tripe

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[03cupra]

yeah true, but bearing in mind most of the time ecp have a cheap option.. i replaced my shocks with sachs units from ECP, but you can buy front shocks from ECP by anshler or something for 35 a corner or the sachs for 72 a corner...

i imagine the 35 a corner units were shocking but as always you get what you pay for, within reason, i think VAG group asking £40 for a sensor which according to older posts on this forum was half that 3-4 years ago is a bit of a piss take