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Poodu
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Dec '99
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4/24/01 7:26am
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Have you?? Damn, I never really noticed that!!
Anyhoo..I just lost all will to live for this afternoon...just had the garage on the phone..my car repair bill is already at £800 and is well on its way to four figures..and won't be ready until tomorrow now...  
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JediGittes
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You know what they say about Green Eyes dontcha....
Green Eyes = must be going out with a raging Spurs queer. Oh how prophetic the old phrases turn out to be......(j/k Minxy - don't get your eyebrows out!)
ED: Fire bomb the garage and steal your car back Poods - I'm afraid it's the only answer.....*Gets phone out ready to call Old Bill and grass* Mwahahahahahaha!
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Wormie2
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4/24/01 8:08am
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Hmmm....I just spent $400 getting my car fixed to drive Denver today. Needed new breaks and a new belt for the power steering. At least they smiled. It's nice to get screwed with a smile.
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Poodu
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If only my car repair cost $400...or equivalent of I am extremely distressed now...
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Wormie2
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4/24/01 8:17am
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Oh buck up. I could tell you a thing or two about nightmare garage bills. Doubt you drive your cars into the ground quite as well as I do. 
Warranties. Next car you get, buy the extended warranty. You don't think you'll need it but you do.
I blew a head gasket on my car last year. The bill would have been $1300 to rebuild the engine if not for that extended warranty I paid $600 for.
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Poodu
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That's what has gone on my car...and are you sure about that? This is my fifth car in four years...the first one lasted about a couple months, the second lasted 14 months, the third lasted about three months, the fourth lasted a similar amount of time and this one has been going since January last year. I refuse to let this one be consigned to my wistful approach to car maintenance though...it's too damn good.
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MayhemUK
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I've had a bill for £800+ as well, repairing the engine after one of the pistons did something funny to part of the cylinder. Strangely enough, the car started running incredibly smoothly after being fixed, even better than before the problem started 
And I only paid £725 cos I used cash
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Arun Dale
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4/24/01 8:25am
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This thread is turning into Granada Men and Motors
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4/24/01 8:28am
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Ha, here's my advice:
DONT DRIVE
YES - no garage bills at all!
Or if you do - have a mate that owns a garage!
Wormie - you ever going to take those pics of yourself?
Poodu - get a quote or two first in future and shop around. My sis went to a garage in Manchester and quoted her 1,200 - she brought it to my mate and it turns out only 300 squids worth!
- Theiving bastich garage folk.
JG, hey, I got green eyes, {well - they kinda change between green, brown and yellow, ! I know ~ tis odd.
Lurkers ~ HELLO
*since he's half way round, tc decides to finish his lap of honor!*
Minx, you star you - er, yeah - and stuff
OaC - a Dave you are I feel - we shall have to initiate you 
Nemco -Who are you? What are you doing here? eh?
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Poodu
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4/24/01 8:31am
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TC, the garage I take it to is the only place I'd trust not to bend me over the desk and pull my pants down. We got friends what works in there and we knows the folks what runs the place. No consolation when they tell you you owe em a grand though
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Wormie2
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4/24/01 8:33am
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Four cars, Sam? I'd quite buying Yugo's if I were you.
If it's the head gasket, better brace yourself for a lot more than $1300. I screamed and yelled so much they gave me a discount on labor.
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Arun Dale
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How the hell did you blow your head gasket...drive around in 3rd all the time
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Poodu
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4/24/01 8:37am
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No..the head is gonna cost about £650 apparently and the steering rack which also needed doing in its entirety will cost another £150. On top of that is the VAT which adds about another £150 on top of that by my reckoning. I dunno how much discount Mr Moore is gonna give me, but he said he'd give as much as was possible and I trust him...not like I have a choice anyway...
Oh..and the head gasket probably got a bit fubar when I nearly drowned my car last year...certainly didn't help in any way I don't reckon. Also, the head gasket is the kind of thing that goes eventually anyway...just costs the earth when it does. Same with the cambelt...you just accept the inevitability of it all...at least with the cambelt you have a timescale to work with. The trouble with gasket is that it could go again in two weeks and I'll be totally fecked.
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Wormie2
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4/24/01 8:38am
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cheap aluminum engines. They're not built to withstand higher temperatures as well as the old engines were.
And before you start in on American cars, most of them have Japanese engines. Including BMWs and Mercedes.
It's just the way car engines are being built these days from one side of the globe to the other.
Audi still uses steel for the engine blocks though. If you want to pay the extra $5000 for it.
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Poodu
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4/24/01 8:42am
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Oh...and I resent the Yugo comment..that's asking for a dig at American cars!
Five cars too..not four...five!
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