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Old May 25, 2006 | 02:11 AM
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Just scored me a billet RS grill off of e-bay. I sniped that bad boy with two seconds left! Poor guys never saw me comin' E-bay should give me body bags...........

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Old May 25, 2006 | 09:13 AM
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How much did you snag it for?
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I bid $5.00 on that and the next time I looked, it was up to $200.00. Final price: $217.84. Isn't that high? Could you buy one at a dealer for less? I don't know much about the billet grilles.
Old May 25, 2006 | 10:30 AM
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damn thats high.... id sell mine for like half the price
Old May 25, 2006 | 03:17 PM
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I bid $5.00 on that and the next time I looked, it was up to $200.00. Final price: $217.84. Isn't that high? Could you buy one at a dealer for less? I don't know much about the billet grilles.
Negative Red Leader, this is a genuine OEM Scion billet grill hand built by ancient Japanese craftsmen. It sells for $349.00 on newscionparts.com The ones others are talking about selling for half the price are cheap imported crap. There are several available on e-bay if you like flimsy tiawanese junk on your xb.

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Old May 25, 2006 | 09:34 PM
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damn thats high.... id sell mine for like half the price
I would buy it from you if your willing to sell.
Old May 25, 2006 | 10:10 PM
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Originally Posted by wagonmaster
Negative Red Leader, this is a genuine OEM Scion billet grill hand built by ancient Japanese craftsmen. It sells for $349.00 on newscionparts.com The ones others are talking about selling for half the price are cheap imported crap. There are several available on e-bay if you like flimsy tiawanese junk on your xb.

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Hardly...

I wouldn’t call the B-Cool Billets grills crap. In fact I would take one of these over the OEM Scion grill any day. Not to mention the fact that you can actually get all three billet grils from them, not just the upper.

Old May 26, 2006 | 03:35 AM
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Hey, to each his own. Yours looks nice, but I prefer OEM quality. A 3 piece kit is also available in OEM as well.

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Holey Moley Batman--they have several different Japanese grills on that website: WWW.newscionparts.com
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Holey Moley Batman--they have several different Japanese grills on that website: WWW.newscionparts.com

Exactly my point and they are all perfect OEM fit and finish. As with anything in life, you get what you pay for.

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Old May 27, 2006 | 05:43 AM
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Originally Posted by OldYeller
Holey Moley Batman--they have several different Japanese grills on that website: WWW.newscionparts.com

Exactly my point and they are all perfect OEM fit and finish. As with anything in life, you get what you pay for.

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You are right about that. In fact, I bought the OD grill and it, being a Toyota part, slipped right in just like stock.........
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You are right about that. In fact, I bought the OD grill and it, being a Toyota part, slipped right in just like stock.........[/quote]


Like a hand in a velvet glove..........wink, wink, nudge nudge!

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