Sparco Rims Pricing

[Mort]

I have a set of Sparco Racing NS-2 Speeder rims that Discount Tire slightly damaged. They are now trying to pay me for the rims, but are lowballing me on price (they were on the car when I bought it, seller indicates he paid around $2K for the set, but does not have receipt . . . it was several years ago). Anyone out there have evidence of what 16x7 and 17x8.5 two piece NS-2 speeder's went for when new would be a lifesaver!

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[Andrie Hartanto]

Sorry I can't help you on the pricing.

However those are Racing Sparco wheels. Not Sparco.

Racing Sparco is japanese company.
Sparco is Italian company.
Two different company.

Hopefully that can help you find the pricing better.

 

[fangtl]

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BTW, I think it's unfair for you to ask DTD to pay full retail price on rims that are several years old. If they did cost 2K new (which I doubt), they are probably only worth ~ 30-50% of its original price now.

 

[Mort]

Originally posted by fangtl:
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Thanks for the link, but these are the smaller one piece rims, apparently the 16" and up were two piece which come at a substantial price boost.
If you have a link showing the larger rims, please provide it!

BTW, I think it's unfair for you to ask DTD to pay full retail price on rims that are several years old. If they did cost 2K new (which I doubt), they are probably only worth ~ 30-50% of its original price now.

As to what I "expect" of Discount Tire, I'm not expecting "full price", I'm also not thinking 30-50% of the new price is fair compensation for a nice set of rims that were in perfect condition. If they messed up all of your rims, I suspect you'd feel differently.
Also, BTW they did cost more than $2k new (the prior owner paid over $3K for tires and rims). A retail source in LA tells me they went for as much as $750/wheel.

 

[D'Ecosse]

Originally posted by fangtl:
click here

BTW, I think it's unfair for you to ask DTD to pay full retail price on rims that are several years old. If they did cost 2K new (which I doubt), they are probably only worth ~ 30-50% of its original price now.

I have to disagree - if you are perfectly happy with your rims, have no intention of changing them, then they are damaged through no fault of your own making, why should you be faced with having to spend additional money from your own pocket, even simply to replace with the same type (if available)?
This is not a question of the value on the used resale market, but of the incurred out of pocket expense to replace something the user had no intention of replacing!

If someone dents your fender in the parking lot on your 10 year old NSX (with 8K miles in pristine condition) then by your logic, it is not reasonable that the offender pay full compensation for a brand new fender & paint job - after all, the damaged part was 10 years old - surely past its useful life? I think not!!


[This message has been edited by D'Ecosse (edited 10 September 2002).]