|
|
|
|
.jrjo
Member
|
|
|
Joined: 24 Feb 2006
Posts: 900
Location: Lake Wobegon, MN
|
| Back to top
|
|
 Posted: 03/16/06 - 11:38 Post subject:
When I had my 3/4-ton pickup, I dropped about $2000 in one trip on just tires and rear leaf springs that needed replacing. 
|
|
|
|
|
msparks
Member
|
|
|
Joined: 13 Nov 2003
Posts: 3182
Location: Jammin' at the Frim Fram, Frippin' in the Krotz
|
| Back to top
|
|
Posted: 03/16/06 - 11:40 Post subject:
| j1miller wrote: | | msparks wrote: | | j1miller wrote: | $800 for a new exhaust system on a volvo. Sold it a week later for $800
 |
What, the exhaust system?
 |
no, the entire car! |
Damned Swedish exhausts!! 
|
|
|
|
|
runaroundsue
Member
|
|
|
Joined: 18 Sep 2002
Posts: 6629
Location: supporting GREENer pastures
|
| Back to top
|
|
Posted: 03/16/06 - 12:17 Post subject:
blown head gasket on a '79 chevy monte crapolo. $600. I didn't have the $$ so it sat in the shop until a few paychecks later. That was the last time I ever ask my father for help in my life. My sister lived pretty close to my workplace, so I stayed there so my coworkers could give me rides. We had to do this without her landlord knowing. (she lived in some old dude's house)
|
|
|
|
|
brwf
Member
|
|
|
Joined: 23 Feb 2006
Posts: 78
|
| Back to top
|
|
Posted: 03/16/06 - 12:20 Post subject:
$3800 on some end of lease excessive wear and tear.
I could have kept it and lived in it.
|
|
|
|
|
rolling rock
The Pinball
|
|
|
Joined: 15 May 2002
Posts: 16218
Location: unknown zone
|
| Back to top
|
|
Posted: 03/16/06 - 12:23 Post subject:
i'm still driving my 95 toyota that is about to turn the 100K mark, and the most expensive repair i've ever had was 4 new tires.
i have had to maintain it, flushing systems, changing oil, rotating tires, brake jobs, turning rotors....and i think the most expensive bill i've had, including the state inspection and emissions testing was $350, that did not include the tires.
just. jinxed. myself.
my next car will be a toyota.
|
|
|
|
|
runaroundsue
Member
|
|
|
Joined: 18 Sep 2002
Posts: 6629
Location: supporting GREENer pastures
|
| Back to top
|
|
Posted: 03/16/06 - 12:44 Post subject:
| rolling rock wrote: | i'm still driving my 95 toyota that is about to turn the 100K mark, and the most expensive repair i've ever had was 4 new tires.
i have had to maintain it, flushing systems, changing oil, rotating tires, brake jobs, turning rotors....and i think the most expensive bill i've had, including the state inspection and emissions testing was $350, that did not include the tires.
just. jinxed. myself.
my next car will be a toyota. |
sounds like my last minivan....'93 Mercury Villager. My current Montana has had at least 3 recalls and then there was the time that the automatic door wouldn't stay closed on a frigid day or the day that it did close on my son's shoe and we couldn't open it.
|
|
|
|
|
brwf
Member
|
|
|
Joined: 23 Feb 2006
Posts: 78
|
| Back to top
|
|
Posted: 03/16/06 - 12:58 Post subject:
| runaroundsue wrote: | | My current Montana has had at least 3 recalls and then there was the time that the automatic door wouldn't stay closed on a frigid day or the day that it did close on my son's shoe and we couldn't open it. |
No one falls for that fake-leg-sticking-out-of-the-car gag anymore!
|
|
|
|
|
airehead
Oompa Loofah
|
|
|
Joined: 12 Nov 2002
Posts: 18788
Location: Between here and eternity...
|
| Back to top
|
|
Posted: 03/16/06 - 14:52 Post subject:
We spent about $4k on sprucing up my Trooper. She is a 93 had low miles (still does) but we had to get new tires and some other things done.
Like a clutch and some steering thing and the brakes. We were SO lucky that Isuzu and Acura are inbred bastages because I had to pay Acura prices for the clutch job.
Dude said: "I have never done a clutch job that cost THIS MUCH. I am so sorry!".
|
|
|
|
|
Noley
AZhat
|
|
|
Joined: 16 Aug 2003
Posts: 10494
|
| Back to top
|
|
Posted: 03/16/06 - 18:14 Post subject:
In the past 3 weeks I've spent close to $2100 on...
New brakes
4 engine mounts
AC leak and repairs
New hoses and belts
Exhaust problems
and whatever else they saw wrong with my van...corsion on the battery.
This really bites!!!
|
|
|
|
|
MechEngDropout
Member
|
|
|
Joined: 27 Jun 2003
Posts: 10474
Location: Off the grid
|
| Back to top
|
|
Posted: 03/16/06 - 18:21 Post subject:
Uhhh... $300 for 2 new tires? No problems with my car yet.
|
|
|
|
|
alyson98
Member
|
|
|
Joined: 26 May 2004
Posts: 1602
Location: Down East
|
| Back to top
|
|
Posted: 03/16/06 - 18:24 Post subject:
$500 on new tires last summer
$300 last month on misc. stuff
$300 this month on a new windshield in order to get it inspected and renew my registration.
|
|
|
|
|
Running Brewer
Member
|
|
|
Joined: 12 Oct 2004
Posts: 3872
Location: Santa Poco
|
| Back to top
|
|
Posted: 03/16/06 - 18:25 Post subject:
| nolefan85 wrote: | In the past 3 weeks I've spent close to $2100 on...
New brakes
4 engine mounts
AC leak and repairs
New hoses and belts
Exhaust problems
and whatever else they saw wrong with my van...corsion on the battery.
This really bites!!! |
How much did they charge your for the blinker fluid and the muffler bearings?
That does bite!
|
|
|
|
|
Noley
AZhat
|
|
|
Joined: 16 Aug 2003
Posts: 10494
|
| Back to top
|
|
Posted: 03/17/06 - 01:48 Post subject:
| Running Brewer wrote: | | nolefan85 wrote: | In the past 3 weeks I've spent close to $2100 on...
New brakes
4 engine mounts
AC leak and repairs
New hoses and belts
Exhaust problems
and whatever else they saw wrong with my van...corsion on the battery.
This really bites!!! |
How much did they charge your for the blinker fluid and the muffler bearings?
That does bite! |
HA! They were going to do something about the "needs wiper fluid" light that constantly stays on. When they called to asked if I wanted it fixed, I told them no.
That's where I drew the line. The light can stay on!!!
Hi RB!!!!!
|
|
|
|
|
purple hayes
Frightened Inmate #2
|
|
|
Joined: 14 May 2002
Posts: 14462
Location: ON YOUR LEFT!
|
| Back to top
|
|
Posted: 03/17/06 - 06:33 Post subject:
| nolefan85 wrote: | That's where I drew the line. The light can stay on!!!
Hi RB!!!!! |
You could take the bulb out so it never comes on, too.
|
|
|
|
|
cherylpf
crazy cat lady
|
|
|
Joined: 14 May 2002
Posts: 17305
|
| Back to top
|
|
Posted: 03/17/06 - 07:28 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | $4000 between two repairs for a blown head gasket on a 1995 Ford Windstar.
Ford originally told us to have inappropriate relations with ourselves when we asked for compensation.
About a year later, they admitted fault and cut us a check for the total amount. |
Also to be noted: Ford's financial problems ever since....
The infamous 'Sty had many problems, among them a computer chip missing from her transmission that prevented her from going in reverse. Minor detail. We originally paid for it and were told a similar message but eventually Dodge came around and paid us back. However her most expensive repair was while she was still under the ownership and maintenance of my dad (i was lucky). I don't remember what it was but she wouldn't drive, horrible smell and the head gasket sounds very familiar and ran around $2500. It was so much (and the 'sty was worth so little) the shop kept calling my dad to tell him they couldn't in good conscience let him pay that much for a car repair on a car not even worth that and they could help me find a used beater (in better shape, the sty was a beater) for about the same price that would drive better. Dad believed it was an investment in the life of the car.  I guess she did get me to Texas (with no a/c) almost 2 years later where I then bought my own car, so it was worth that much to my dad.
I hate to report the Saturn's relatively cheap history in fear of a jinx, so I won't.
|
|
|
|
