optispark components

[David A. Cooley]

Cool!
Part numbers would be great to send to my dad... Out in California the
dealerships are ripoffs!
Thanks,
DAve



At 04:09 PM 12/7/98 -0800, you wrote:
>  Dave,
>
>   I just replaced the cap and rotor on my '96 Impala SS, as it was
>carbon tracked, as well as wet from a water pump melt down.
>  I walked into my local Chevy parts counter, and after much searching
>throuhg obscure computer pages as well as hard copies of parts books, we
>found the thing.   I paid $128 for a '96 cap and rotor for my '96
>optispark.
>  I will admit that when i first started calling around for the parts, 3
>Chevy dealers said "no way..have to replace the whole thing."
>
>  I'm not sure why there is so much confusion...even among GM people
>about this.  This also is not meant to question your father, as my local
>shop ran into the brick wall as well when searching for the part.
>In fact, the first Chevy shop I contacted, called their regional rep,
>who also said no parts.
>  The story i got is that GM just prefers to replace the entire unit, no
>matter what the problem, under warranty, so that's what comes up in the
>computer/parts books.  
>   If you give me a few days, I can dig out the paper work and pass
>along a part number for the cap and rotor kit from GM. 
>
>
>  cheers,
> David Curtis
>mailto:spdrcr at flash.net

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