[klr toy]

Yes, this is true; however, if I had to go to the stealership to buy the parts, I would not have done it. I also paid $350 for the control panel that was all scratched up. I believe there was a couple for sale on this forum, possibly even this thread for around $100.00. The parts that I got were also on an international parts exchange network. Theoretically, anybody could have gone to their local wrecker and got the very parts that I installed in my truck. The prices are set by the network, not the wreckers, which is usually half of the dealers list price. I was only relaying what it cost me to do the swap. Remember that patience is a virtue and that research can pay off. If you don't want to wait, you will pay more. If you can wait and look around, you will pay less. There are lots of written off trucks out there, now.

On a further note, I had my truck into a buddies stereo shop to install a remote starter and decided to install the last servo motor and swap out the required harness since my dash was half ripped out anyways and had nothing better to do. (I did not install the flapper inside the heater box as this requires seperating the box into 2 pieces to install and cannot be done in the truck). I can report that I noticed no noticeable difference in performance or functionality with it hooked up. This seems to confirm my theory that if it is not there it will be disregarded by the network. That being said, I believe that one could skip those parts and not purchase the heater assembly at all to make the control system work. I did take the heater and evaporator cores back and got $210 credit for them.