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Montero, 3000GT..... 2.2
It turns out though, that my uncle ended up getting a brand-new car, anyway. 2003 Corolla. Don't ask me why we put $600 into an old car, and then he ended up getting a new one anyway...my family does stuff like that! It is amazing though, what a difference the new parts make. I hadn't realized how sloppy the car had gotten. I probably just adjusted and got used to it as the steering got looser and looser.
Harry, thanks for the email. I'll give the caliper/piston rebuild a try when I have some free time. Hey, any idea how much those things are if I mess one up? ;-)
What does the exhaust manifold do, how important is it and how much does it cost to repair or relace it?
I will NEVER change the PCV again!!!!! The timing belt is no picnic either. Come to think about it, that is one of the worst cars for DIY maintenance.
I was astonished to discover that when the repair and maintenence costs are averaged over the 5 years that they cost approximately the same. The Japanese had fewer but more expensive repairs. It generally has one significant repair or maintenence item a year. The domestic had more repairs 2-3 per year, but lower cost.
After years and years of hanging around cars, you realize that some cars are engineered to be fixed easily and some aren't.
there were something like 15 different sizes and pitches of metric hardware in those heads, he was told.
it ain't just a joke that Mercedes are durable, but those $900 mufflers will kill you eventually. we all better hope that DC fails at "integrating the parts flow" between the brands
Harry
If labor is one hour, that's $60
If you just need pads, then it's $60 + pads, which will vary but should be about....oh, $35?
IF you need rotors those might be $25-40 apiece or more if they are the very best. Then there's the labor to remove the old rotors and put on new ones. They might also ask if you'd like wheel bearings re-packed.
Turning the rotors rather than replacing them would cost less of course, that's just a labor charge.
So the total price will vary depending on what the car needs and what kind of shop you are going to. If it's a large chain operation they may try to stack up the things you need as their service writers are encouraged to sell as much as possible. . If they say you need rotors ask them what the minimum thickness is for rotors on your car and what thickness your old rotors were when they measured them. If they don't know those numbers, they probably didn't do it.
If they say the rotors have the right thickness but are "rough", then you'll have to either eyeball them yourself or take their word.
I'd be more concerned about the quality of parts they are using and the care they use to install them then a $25 or even $50 difference from shop to shop.
Harry
Depending on the vehicle, bearings and/or mounts and bearings can add from $30 to several hundred to the strut job. When I first started doing strut jobs in the seventies, mounts were a rare addition, and frequently were still good when the second set of struts wore out. Now all I'll say is, that they seem to outlast the warranty on new cars.
Harry
Older cars were sloppier and you didn't notice degradation of the ride as much or all the clunks and bangs.
Went to appraise an '83 Porsche Targa the other day for a guy thinking of buying it. Asking price is $8,000.
The car comes from the original owner, but it's been in dead storage 5-6 years. Straight body, no rust, no accidents, high mileage.
So I'm lookin' at it, thinking....hmmmm....
Needs paint, just old, faded, crazed from 17 years of sun and abrasion.
Porsche engine not started in 6 years? Uh-oh, that's going to have to come out and be "freshened up" for sure. The garage was a bit damp and you know that moisture has bound the rings to the bottom side of the liners, or at least caused some galling.
Car won't roll, also typical Porsche issue, the calipers will freeze from non use. So four calipers, rotors, pads.
Tires are flat-spotted, so four of those
Targa headliner falling down, all the door and targa weatherseals are old and dried up.
So this car all fixed up, in today's market, maybe worth $16K
Cost of repairs could hit $16K no problem.
Basically the car is worthless.
And, there's probably a bunch of things wrong you had no way to determine. Bad trans bearings etc.
Too bad...
This is a typical case of why many older "luxury" or "sports" cars don't survive....if they are too common, but pricey to repair, then the cost of restoring them exceeds their value, therefore junkyard for parts. That's where this car should go, to keep really nice SCs on the road. Or better yet, I'd gut it and use the body for a builder if I had another car with good motor and trans but smashed up or rusted.
It's the cost of the motor that's killing this car.
check engine light on -- defective secondary air pump, $450.
needs rear brakes --$475
power steering leak -- $600
Now the air pump is a fairly common problem on these cars (used for emissions) and a bolt-on job, but where else you gonna get the part?
Brakes --outrageous IMO.
P/S leak -- no real diagnosis here. BMW lines are known to leak after a while, so what's the $600 for? A new rack at only 48K miles. Seems unlikely. And a pump shouldn't cost that.
there are two pricing models, as shown by videos. one is "we only need to sell ONE." the other is "we want to sell one to EVERYBODY."
used to be there was an area in the middle, but it doesn't seem to be a "popular price" any more in anything.
C & K 15/35 (96-99)
V8 305(5.0L), 350(5.7L)
w/ Air Cond
- Upper..... 2.5
- Lower..... 3.9
w/o Air Cond
- upper..... 1.5
- lower..... 2.9
Where cruise control interferes, add .2
I can see where rare vehicles, or seldom replaced pieces, require higher prices (economy of scale and all that), but why a windshield for common cars like a Villager or PT Cruiser are over $1000, beats me.
ever see an itemized hospital bill? for a heart attack and stent 6 years ago, the bill was almost $90,000. I was 3 days short of my company medical going into effect, so county welfare picked it up, at about $38,000. there were $14 aspirins and $65 IV bottles and the doctor's fees for angiography and two stents were $14,000 -- numbers that shocked the cardiologist, who of course got nothing near that amount, not even in the same galaxy.
if you got it, we'll use you to even out our fiscal projections -- that's the list price difference.