Hell yes $30,000 is cheap. In america, injection plastic molds for an
assembly like that would cost over $300,000 to make if they were durable
enough to last for the model run of a car, which means made of tool steel.
If they were going to be fairly low volume, like about 50,000 units then
they could be made of aluminum which could drop the cost to around 50k or
so. So if you figure that these are made in taiwan, where tooling costs
about 1/2 as much to make as the usa and assume it's low volume aluminum
tooling the price is right in line.
Mike
>The molds cost $35,000??? Are you sure about that? I know there's a local
>company that can do custom clears for any car that usually cost around
>$300. Now, I'm guess that they dont have to drop the $35000 on molds...
>
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