Way Too Much Moolah

[pauls n/a MR2 GTI]

well the lights all came on, all of them. the bad red and amber ones and the "2" stopped dead in its tracks.

the wheel was smashed and now this.....

so i took it to my friendly Mechanic uncle oop north.

what i thought was dodgy electrics turned into this list.....

new alt, (old one was full of oil from cracked rocker cover and beyond repair)

new rocker cover

new gaskets, (thankfully not the head)

re-conditioned pump

re-conditioned fuel sender unit

timing belt

sparks

oil

air filter and pipe replacement (induction kit hose was perished and not working also filter was pretty damaged)

oil filter

springs front passenger and rear passenger (from wheel impact at 20 mph!!??)

leaking coolant pipe

coolant

new door lock and key as frienly car thief tried to steal car by busting in lock until uncles dogs started playing with him

new ariel (thief must have tried to pull it off to get away from the hounds)

new Battery

2 rear tyres

toms scoop sprayed colour coded to car

scrapes and lacquer peeling re-sprayed

door panel around lock fixed and re sprayed

new alarm

remote start unit

new 17" rs-gt wheel to replace broken one

MOT

TAX

INSURANCE NOW DUE 26TH FEB

new earthing wires

and a Partridge and a pear tree........

ALSO HER MADJESTY "She who must be obeyed"

required for her crx esi

new centre section for her exhaust

re-spray of spoiler

2 rear wheel bearings

and TAX

and my (DIESEL) I KNOW ITS EVIL Fiesta

tax and mot

full service

2 tyres

new Battery

and the pretty one wants a new house. and a big %$( off one at that, you dont even want to know how much she has budgeted for that, or should i say I have been nominated by her.

all that in 28 days!!!!!!

has anyone else had a similar slap in the !Removed! recently? Im not sure of the total cost but it must be substansial as its emptied my wage, my flight bonuses and my rainy day fund.

and thats before she takes me house hunting.

now i know how edward norton felt after the shower scene in American History X

[Jimlad]

Well, I took my car to the garage last week because it was making some noiseys.

Turned out 3 pulleys and a tensioner on the aux side of things needed replaced. Not cheap!!!!!

Then one of the cranks jumped when loading up tension on it becuase the timing belt was so slack. So it would have needed re-timed.

So whilst at it I got them to do the water pump, timing belt, all pulleys and tensioners. Again... bluddy not cheap!!

Once it was all together it was also found that the aircon pump was pooped!!!

After spending loads of money already, I decided to simply get a belt to bypass the pump. Not forking out alot of money for a new one as they are rare as <I thought I could get past the swearing filter - what a sad muppet I am eh?> for the MKII GTO's!

[pauls n/a MR2 GTI]

not nice...... damn us for having nice cars eh? at least the boody eco hippies shout be happy with that.

[Jimlad]

It's the price you pay!

PEople forget that these cars that are 10 years ish old are still high performance sports cars. If something goes wrong, it IS expensive!