Hello Michael,
I found it quicker & cheaper to find the fault myself & be able to carry on using the lift, until the repair chap could come with some spare parts.I have found that so far when the engineer comes he is quite similar to car dealer workshop technicians,where he keeps fitting replacement parts instead of actually diagnosing the fault properly.
I considered myself more capable of finding the fault than the engineer(not meaning to sound big headed), but the main reason for my post was to just state the riduculous variation in prices for the exact same part, with the ones I found coming from a dealer in France & the part supplied from Tecalemit coming straight from the factory.
I understand your point of view & also get fed up with customers wanting to supply cheaper parts, but usually the parts that they are sourcing are not the same make or quality.
Ps with the first repair of the lift when the switch was faulty, I was using the lift manually for ages, as after having the wrong incomplete switch sent from the source that I found,Tecalemit supplied exactly the same, incomplete switch & the engineer ended up using a switch from a "spare" control box that he happened to have.
Kind regards,Andrew