RE: Turn Signal Flasher

["Brian Shorey" <bshorey@domain.elided>]

> My question: why is the flasher unit for my car priced at 109USD? What is
> unique about this piece that would make it so expensive?

the unique plastic packaging?

> The one that's in my car is a metal cylinder about 2 inches long and 0.75
> inches in diameter. It has three electrical connections coming from it,
all
> on one end and oriented as to form three sides of a square.
>
> This seems to be similar in size and shape to flashers used in other cars
> from the same time period, but those are in the 5-10USD range (full retail
> price). I'm apparently missing something.

some rational po discovered that a generic, off the shelf, $5 flasher unit
functioned the same as the $109 bosch flasher.  save yourself $104 and use
the generic flasher...

bs

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