My cheap ebay one is same as your expensive one.
The study of a radiator
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I was talking about the structure. Maybe you just don't know how to buy. Always buy something similar to what you have already. You can hardly go wrong. How did you miss the massive tubes on the nissens?Congratulations!Mine wasn't... Surprised it would fit a BMW if it was?
Maybe you just don't understand sarcasm?My car is very rare - a couple of dozen examples still on the road in the UK, according to the DVLA's website. When the old one started leaking, I wasn't exactly spoiled for a choice of suppliers of replacements. So "any port in a storm" & all that. I thought a company who had been making radiators as long as Nissens claim to have, would know their job! Pretty much as soon as I took it out of the box I thought "Eeeewwww... That's a bit horrid. I doubt that's going to do a good job".
...and indeed, I was right. It does a pretty rubbish job, but at least it bought me time to wait until something better came along (which it did, in the form of this genuine "new old stock" one).
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Nissen made automotive radiators, which is the discussion.NissenNissan. Nissen made huts
OK, my mistake. Trying to be too smart
!Not nissen but nissens: https://nissens.com
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No, Nissens, with a capital N.
It's better to have buying skills than sarcasm, though. I broke my caliper. I went to buy the cheapest OEM replacement. So, they sent me an OE (probably remanufactured) unit instead.
Congratulations on your buying skills. It takes real talent to order a crappy no-name caliper and open the box to find a recon one in there!
(Assuming that's what it is, or course...). Slightly more curious as to how anyone can be ham-fisted enough to "break" a brake caliper?
It may not be recon, could be brand new. Cross threaded the hose connector and I don't want to get into retapping. The dust boot on the old one was broken anyway. Fixing the old one up could cost more than a new one.Congratulations on your buying skills. It takes real talent to order a crappy no-name caliper and open the box to find a recon one in there!
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And they last longer than radiatorsNissenNissan. Nissen made huts
Not really. The caliper was simply too heavy for my hand to spin it back onto the hose. If my hand was more substantial with ham, it could have worked. This issue appeared to be a common occurrence and others suffered from it also. But it's just one of those things that came with experience. This lesson cost me £150 all included - new unit, hose, and family sized pot of brake fluid. I spun off the caliper because I didn't want to risk breaking the hard line. Was investigating lack of fluid for one wheel. Now looks like valve in ABS stuck closed.That is quite impressively ham-fisted...