Feeler gauges

[OldSpool87]

What's the difference (besides $50) between these two feeler gauges:

P213 Feeler Gauge PELTOLP213 - SIR Tools - PEL-TOL-P213 | Pelican Parts

AND

Feeler Gauge for Valve Adjustment 00072121320 - Genuine Porsche - 000-721-213-20 | Pelican Parts

I'm all for buying the best tool one can afford but $50 is a lot of jack for .0004.

Which one would you buy?


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[gtc]

Porsche tax.
Buy the Sir Tools gauge.

[rwest]

I might have both, the SIR one works just fine.

I've since bought the Kirk tool and really like it. Couple threads and a tech article on it if you are curious.

[sc_rufctr]

This is how I've been doing it for more than 20 years (but the engine in my car comes out every two years or so)

You really can't use this method with the engine in place.



Apparently the Kirk tool works very well but I haven't used it myself.

[Jrboulder]

Part of the agreement dealers have with the manufacturer is that they must buy a ton of minimum requirement tools so they can deal with pretty much anything that could come up.

The P213b isn't actually part of that anymore, but in the past Porsche certainly made every dealer buy at least one. Between the highway robbery prices they could charge, small production runs and insistence on Porsche's part to make almost everything in Germany it leads to a pretty pricey MSRP. And then of course add on the convoluted distribution path it takes to get a genuine Porsche part as a retail customer (Porsche AG buys it from some small outfit in Germany, Porsche AG sells it to PCNA, PCNA sells it to a dealer, dealer sells it to pelican, you buy it from pelican)

[OldSpool87]

Thanks everyone for the replies. Sir tools gets the order.