Dang, my car busted

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My car died! There goes another $600, and on top of that, my gas tank was leaking, another $150!

So sad... so close to Tinley. *sniffle* :tears:

Cars are a money sink...

$600 for what thats nuts i dont know i guess its because im from a small town but my brother is a mechanic and he doesnt even charge that much to replace a engine hopefully you can still make tinely i was planning to but dont know if it will be possible for me either

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Originally Posted by imridethelghtng

$600 for what thats nuts i dont know i guess its because im from a small town but my brother is a mechanic and he doesnt even charge that much to replace a engine hopefully you can still make tinely i was planning to but dont know if it will be possible for me either

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Fuel pump replacement and filter is 600$. I go to a small farm and auto repair. The guy is super nice and honest; and a heck of a LOT cheaper than other places around here. Helps that he's only a mile away. :)

Sorry to hear about your car. It seems to be going around here lately. We had my husband's car die about 3 weeks ago. Died.... dead... gone. They wanted $4000 to replace the engine! So we now have a new car, which I LOVE but never get to drive. :rolleyes: (although I do get to take it Daytona)

I have to drop some serious money on my car too. I was going to VA Beach last week and we rear-ended another car. (Not our fault though).

I have to replace the front bumper and the airbags. And then if I choose to, replace the fender and grill, but those are mostly for cosmetic reasons.

Cars are definitely money eaters. :(

I'm sorry to hear that!

I'm currently on a truck hunt myself because while my car hasn't died quite yet, its on its last leg. My boyfriend is a mechanic and even he can't keep my hunk of junk running.

Hopefully your car runs like gold now!

Sucks when cars crap out :( I feel for ya Connie :hug:

If you lived closer I'd fix it for you ;) Depending on make & model fuel pumps are a quick fix :D You buy the parts & a case of beer and you'ld be good to go - It's always the labor that kills ya :P We get a nice discount on parts which helps a lot.

maybe if your black blood is big enough you can ride him there!:banana::snake:

oh ya, and sorry to hear about your car...

my car has been in the shop for two weeks. first they thought it was a fuel injector, then something w/ the turbo, but they really don't know what's up :(....

hahaha i am budgeting around $2k for it LOL!!

Sorry about your car! Mines had some problems over the past couple months, then a few days ago the a/c went out and down here in Texas that's a bad thing!

Heck ya, such a bummer. I've been paying off money on the credit card for Tinley, and now this pops up! Total price is 749 or something around there, and it's fixed now so I can go get it after work.

My car has only had AC last summer when Chris filled it up for me. We tried it this year but the stupid thing wouldn't hook on, and the hose was too short... then I took the hose and gauge off... that is something you should never do I quickly found out. :8:

It sucks when unexpected car troubles tap into funds designated for other purposes.

Just be glad you are not building a performance engine. The estimate to build my Pontiac 455 is in the $9000.00 range.(I'm supplying the main block.) Then again you can't stick a price tag on an estimated by computer modeling 800 Ft lbs of torque and 750 Horse power while being naturally aspirated running on 93 Octane pump gas. :gj: Now all I have to do is sell my old house to get the money for this than raise up another $20K or so :oops: to do the rest of the cars frame off rodstoration.

connie....scooter....hilarious... :cool:

I drive a 88 camaro and yes its a money PIT but you got to get to work to pay for the snakes, rats, tubs, racks, o yea and to feed yourself right.

no offense but you got ripped off big time i could change a fuel pump and filter for $50 it only takes about 15 minutes to do it im in the wrong hobby i need to start working on cars full time instead of as a hobby seriously i dont know what kind of car you have but im assuming its a newer car with fuel injection where the fuel pump is in the tank that takes 15 minutes to fix and is a $50 job and if the car is older where the fuel pump is on the side of the block it takes even less time that guys a crook pop the bottom of the rear seat out which just clips in remove 4 screws to the access panel pop the wires off which is a clip another clip holds the pump in the tank it takes 15 minutes i hate crooks

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Originally Posted by imridethelghtng

no offense but you got ripped off big time i could change a fuel pump and filter for $50 it only takes about 15 minutes to do it im in the wrong hobby i need to start working on cars full time instead of as a hobby seriously i dont know what kind of car you have but im assuming its a newer car with fuel injection where the fuel pump is in the tank that takes 15 minutes to fix and is a $50 job and if the car is older where the fuel pump is on the side of the block it takes even less time that guys a crook pop the bottom of the rear seat out which just clips in remove 4 screws to the access panel pop the wires off which is a clip another clip holds the pump in the tank it takes 15 minutes i hate crooks

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Thanks but he's not a crook, and while I value all opinions, calling someone I trust a crook was pretty rude.

http://www.autopartswarehouse.com/de...3-1599109.html

Here, click that little link here... it shows my fuel pump, for $354. The filter was $15. That's $369 without tax. Plus $22 tax, we're up to $391.

I don't recall how much the tank was, but it was over $100.

I'm not a stranger to messing around with cars, but I am not an expert as you clearly are. My monte carlo is the absolute worst design, and I wouldn't be surprised if they put the fuel pump right in the middle of the engine block to save space.

I have no doubt he did the job in the hours it took him, so I have no problem paying him the $150 for it, he's one guy with a little shop and a full schedule all the time. He so kindly squeezed me in on short notice, and if he felt the need to charge me more for that convenience, so be it.

So all that was to say, chill out and don't call everyone a crook when you think you know better.

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Originally Posted by littleindiangirl

Thanks but he's not a crook, and while I value all opinions, calling someone I trust a crook was pretty rude.

http://www.autopartswarehouse.com/de...3-1599109.html

Here, click that little link here... it shows my fuel pump, for $354. The filter was $15. That's $369 without tax. Plus $22 tax, we're up to $391.

I'm not a stranger to messing around with cars, but I am not an expert as you clearly are. My monte carlo is the absolute worst design, and I wouldn't be surprised if they put the fuel pump right in the middle of the engine block to save space.

I have no doubt he did the job in the hours it took him, so I have no problem paying him the $150 for it, he's one guy with a little shop and a full schedule all the time. He so kindly squeezed me in on short notice, and if he felt the need to charge me more for that, so be it.

So all that was to say, chill out and don't call everyone a crook when you think you know better.

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Agreed!

The price that this mechanic charged is a fair charge, but......... if you know how to do any job yourself, the high cost that someone else pays can appear outlandish. Also..... When I pay my trusted local independant mechanic to do work for me I always reduce the cost of the job tremendously by doing a sometimes exhaustive but usually cursary on line search and buy the parts much cheaper than the mechanic gets them for. He then just charges me labor. A mechanic has his suppliers that he goes through and he pays what they charge for parts and then marks them up in price to you. He can't be expected to take a couple of hours searching for the lowest cost on parts for each job. But if you search yourself you will most often find the same part, often by the same maker varying in price IE: from $57 to $300 for the same part and many places ship free for orders over $50. My mechanic is happy because it saves him the trouble of running down the parts. Of course I always make sure that I order the correct parts and I get everything that he needs for a job. Anyway Connie, I don't think that this guy meant to offend either you or your mechanic, I think that he was just shocked at the cost because he could evision a different path to take.

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Originally Posted by dsirkle

Anyway Connie, I don't think that this guy meant to offend either you or your mechanic, I think that he was just shocked at the cost because he could evision a different path to take.

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I understand dale, and while you may have not seen it that way, I did. I took it offensively when he called him a crook then went on to say he hates crooks.

Crook implies that my mechanic was purposefully cheating me out of money... I beg to differ on that.

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Originally Posted by imridethelghtng

no offense but you got ripped off big time i could change a fuel pump and filter for $50 it only takes about 15 minutes to do it im in the wrong hobby i need to start working on cars full time instead of as a hobby seriously i dont know what kind of car you have but im assuming its a newer car with fuel injection where the fuel pump is in the tank that takes 15 minutes to fix and is a $50 job and if the car is older where the fuel pump is on the side of the block it takes even less time that guys a crook pop the bottom of the rear seat out which just clips in remove 4 screws to the access panel pop the wires off which is a clip another clip holds the pump in the tank it takes 15 minutes i hate crooks

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we all can't be fortunate to own one of these:

http://bedrock.deadsquid.com/img/gro...a_baby_car.jpg

My Dodge truck became a money pit towards the end. Fuel pump, water pump, and finally the tranny. Now I bought a 2007 Honda CR-V. Great little SUV, good on gas, has a lot of pep. All for $660 monthly for the next 4 years. Yes it's high, but I bought the top unit and I had bad credit.

Yeah.. we pay out the wazoo for two truck payments. But it is worth it to have something newer that is still under warranty. It is a lose-lose situation for most like us. Either pay upteenth dollars for car payments, or spend money every month fixing an older car that you bought for cash. Ain't life grand?

I have never bought a new car for myself. You loose too much money the minute you drive it off the lot. The reason cars start to have lots of issues generally means people neglected it until it became the elephant in the room. As long as you keep maintenance up on a car and take care of things as they come up their is no reason you should not be able to get at least 20 years or 200,000 miles out of a vehicle at least every GM car or truck I've owned made that. The Ford truck came in a little low at only 160,000 miles before I had to trade it in. I had one Mazda MX-5 for a while but it died (Manual tranny and rear end both puked their guts at the same time leaving gears and all kinds of metal on the street) at around 90,000 miles. I will not be getting another mazda again after that experience.

The wife on the other had gets what she wants and that is why she got a new car this year.