Yikes!

[joei]

Less than 24 hours ago I spent over half my monthly wage getting the car's brakes repaired.

Highway robbery!

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[emschin]

Car repairs are very expensive! But, you can't very well do without.

[joei]

Exactly why the garages charge so much.
They know you need your car, and can't drive it without the repair.
The labor alone was $200, and they only had the car a total of maybe 2 hours from the time I dropped it off to the time I picked it up. They couldn't have been working on it that entire time since there were other cars on the lifts when I took the car there.

[dweezil]

see. this is why I bought a "new" car.

[joei]

*dreamy stare* A new car.... sweet.

I think a new car for me would have to involve a winning lottery ticket first.

[low_delta]

I just had my brakes done. $800. I was a bit surprised.

[joei]

Wow.
I guess I'm just not keeping up on how expensive things are getting. I think if my bill had come to $800, I might have fainted.