Land Rover Valve Cover Spark Plug Gasket - Genuine Rover LR014345 - thoughts on cost

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Curious what folks think of the price difference between OE and after market for valve cover spark plug/injector gaskets, so OE are $25.19 (I assume this is each) and after market are $4.79. I'm having a hard time reconciling this huge cost difference and whether it's worth paying over $200 for the OE ones??? At 102K miles the OE ones have served the vehicle well but I'm still struggling to justify this cost in my head.

It's a similar story with injector seal kits ($13.69 vs $32.41).

I tend to like OE all the way but this just seems like day light robbery!

What do others think?
 

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Elring is the oe manufacturer on this specific gasket and you can get them pretty cheap $4. I have the elring gaskets on and they're fine.
 

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Elring is the oe manufacturer on this specific gasket and you can get them pretty cheap $4. I have the elring gaskets on and they're fine.

Where are you finding these? I can find a full kit that includes the valve cover gaskets (which I already have) but not the individual gaskets???
 

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It's hard to see; but I hyperlinked "pretty cheap $4" on the previous post.

Here's the link. https://www.rmeuropean.com/Products/LR014345-MFG1110-V5657.aspx

Thanks, sorry I missed that! The hyperlinks are rather subtle with this forum tech! These however don't appear to be Elring unless Eurospare is Elring?

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Thank you so much I did see the ones at RMEuropean (partsgeek has the same) and pondered just buying the kits although I don't need the valve cover gaskets but I'm also putting in an order to FCP Euro so will likely go with them. The ones you found are the right ones; I was looking for the left ones which I still can't find on FCP Euro... Great!
 

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