Fitmit is great on them for sure. I wish I would have picked one up when I had my 03 5 years ago lol

 

Has anyone contacted Gruppe-S ? I know theres alot of people looking for one.

 

I've got a brand new 60mm gauge pod i'll sell you for 230 lol. If you don't want to buy it off the forum I can list it as a buy it now price on eBay or something.

 

http://shop.devo2ning.com/Gruppe-S-E...-PANEL-521.htm

may still be able to pick one up here.
Good luck

 

That's insane. I would just get from 42draftdesign. http://www.42draftdesigns.com/catego...evotriple.html

 

They don't have any....I checked everywhere before I ended up paying a large amount for a 52mm Gruppe S. In my search I also bought a 60mm one that was $70.

I emailed Gruppe S before I bought the 52mm and they didn't even respond.

They are just a nice piece....nothing special but it fits the bill and is like an OEM part. I am OK with paying what I did for it since it was really the only option that I considered, I just don't like that look of the 42DD or the Autometer pieces.

 

I decided ill just wait a little while. 250 for a pod is just crazy

 

I emailed gruppe s and got no response also.

I just went with the autometer upper triple. I like it but it needed a little dremeling.

 

From what I've talk to Gruppe S about, it sounds like there wasn't enough demand for the product. He also touched on the idea of possibly making these again in the future, I just dont know when.

I'd totally be the first one in line for a group buy.

 

I love my Gruppe-S 52MM panel but if you guys want you can try to persuade me to sell it.

I believe I paid around $50-60 shipped about 1.5 years ago.

 

I just picked one up from a fellow here on evom. Waiting on the gauges also

 

They probably get 2000 emails a day about it, so don't feel bad when they don't respond.

If you search hard enough you will find Gruppe S's answer to your question on EvoM which is basically this:

-Gruppe S stop making the gauge pods because the injection mold die need to either be refurbished or retooled, and on a business stand point there was not enough estimated future sales to spend the money and cover the tooling costs.-

So to think about it logically, injection mold dies can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, they arn't cheap. Gruppe S already flooded the market with parts from the first tool, and because the 8/9 are no longer in production, the likely hood of selling 2x the volume for parts is basically 0%. So the only way to recoup that tool cost even at a $0 profit would be to sell it at 5x (or something crazy) the cost, which we all know you won't pay as its currently being discussed $200+ is unreasonable for the pods.

...a lot of people looking for them is more like 100's not 1000's and 10,000's...

This is the reality of the situation

 

^Pretty much. If we had 1,000 in a group buy, Im sure they would make them again. Their production rate would have to be 1,000 at a time.

 

I just sold in for 150

 

This is the reason why I purchased two back when they stopped selling them, I didn't want to get stuck as aftermarket companies begin phasing out parts for our cars and moving on to newer models.