Cars and other kinds of motoring gibberish

SubaruWRX wrote:speaking of that.. does $4500 include labour?

Yup. That's one of the other reasons why it's so expensive.


I should quit my job a be a mechanic. ;)

bmwracer wrote:
Yup. That's one of the other reasons why it's so expensive.


I should quit my job a be a mechanic. ;)

Heh I work on my own car.

I change the oil, trannmission fluid, I've changed the sparkplugs in both my Subaru's and i changed the spark plug wires on my Impreza.

I need to do some body work now as I had a little crash with a street sign when it was snowing out, I over reacted and slide into the sign, I almost missed it too!

it got the left front of the car and down the left side of the car :(

My car has been crying ever since then :(

nevertheless it still gets a good workout as you can see in the video I posted :)

SubaruWRX wrote:Heh I work on my own car.

So do I.

But this is major. Without a lift, the right tools, etc. replacing a diff ain't like changing plugs. :puppydog:

SubaruWRX wrote:

Heh I work on my own car.

I change the oil, trannmission fluid, I've changed the sparkplugs in both my Subaru's and i changed the spark plug wires on my Impreza.

I need to do some body work now as I had a little crash with a street sign when it was snowing out, I over reacted and slide into the sign, I almost missed it too!

it got the left front of the car and down the left side of the car :(

My car has been crying ever since then :(

nevertheless it still gets a good workout as you can see in the video I posted :)

that's pretty good work you do on your car. I used to change my own oil, and once i changed the spark plugs and rotated the tires. I had a dent in it that i never bother to fix(minor), but as the car got older, i washed/wax it less, and i just brought it in Jiffy Lube to get the oil changed. Once in awhile, i would bring it in for a tune up and once had the Struts replaced, and i think the water pump, and dist. rotor cap, and one of the belts needed to be fixed, that was expensive over all, but not as much as BMW's repairs on his car.

bmwracer wrote:
Yup, it's new.

The fact that my car is 11 years old doesn't help the cost either, I'm sure...

And the fact that the dealer is doing the repair. :bleh:

Not much of a choice on a Saturday. :sweat:

yeah, you gotta do what you gotta do for your car. 11 years old....my car was about that too, and i didn't get much for it considering it was a reliable car, but it was over 100,000 miles, and it significantly lowers the value of it. I think the Japanese made cars are built to last, mine did for me at 160,000 miles.

qilver wrote:I think the Japanese made cars are built to last, mine did for me at 160,000 miles.

That's one thing about Japanese cars: they last and they're reliable as hell...

With this outlay, I'm gonna be hanging onto my car for a little while longer... A lot longer. :sweat:

bmw, sorry about your car. That must hurt major! :beaten:

In '99-'01, I had a 1987 Prelude that was all good. Until I crashed it. Got it fixed (I think I paid around $600-$700) and it was all good again.

ahochaude wrote:bmw, sorry about your car. That must hurt major! :beaten:

You don't know the half of it. :sweat:

In '99-'01, I had a 1987 Prelude that was all good. Until I crashed it. Got it fixed (I think I paid around $600-$700) and it was all good again.

$600 sounds mighty good right now.

I'm sure I don't understand your situation as I've never spent that kind of money on car repairs before.

I sympathize with you, however.

ahochaude wrote:I'm sure I don't understand your situation as I've never spent that kind of money on car repairs before.

Aho, I wasn't being pissy towards you... I was just grousing, bud. ;)

Gomen.

lol the most i've spent was $1,200 but it was not for the car :P However I look forward to putting money now on my Subaru Legacy GT :applaud: :woot:

bmwracer wrote:
Aho, I wasn't being pissy towards you... I was just grousing, bud. ;)

Gomen.

I know. It's all good.
I wouldn't blame you if you had.

ahochaude wrote:I know. It's all good.
I wouldn't blame you if you had.

I wouldn't do that intentionally.


This thing is a shock to the system: it upsets my balance. :grumble:

Guh, I just realized that the estimate probably doesn't include tax.

Or the cost of the rental.

I'm gonna be in the hole $5000. :bleh: :bleh:


I'm commtting seppuku.

bmwracer wrote:Guh, I just realized that the estimate probably doesn't include tax.

Or the cost of the rental.

I'm gonna be in the hole $5000. :bleh: :bleh:


I'm commtting seppuku.

dibs on your ryoko/dorama collection!

:victory:

krim wrote:dibs on your ryoko/dorama collection!

:victory:

:lol: :lol: Opportunist. :hehe:

The early bird gets the Ryoko collection. :hehe:

krim wrote:The early bird gets the Ryoko collection. :hehe:

Heh, I like that. :hehe:

bmwracer wrote:Ugh, one day after my b-day, my differential lets go. :bleh: :puppydog:

It's gonna cost me $4500... :sweat: :puppydog: :bleh:

Ouch! :bleh:

Sorry amigo.

Seriously, now's the time to consider putting that money toward a new car instead of toward the existing repairs. If you haven't already forked over the dough.
-PCM

My sister learned that lesson with her old car :sweat:.