In alt.home.repair, on Tue, 12 Dec 2017 21:04:23 -0500, Wolf K
> wrote:
>On 2017-12-12 17:07, micky wrote:
>> In alt.home.repair, on 11 Dec 2017 09:50:19 -0500,
>> (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
>>
>>> micky > wrote:
>>>> In alt.home.repair, on Sun, 10 Dec 2017 19:17:24 -0400, pjp
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> What I dislike about their fixed cost repair arrangements is that if it
>>>>> doesn't take that long we are giving them money for nothing
>>>>
>>>> I hate to bring up my blown engine again, but when I had my car towed
>>>> into the shop last summer, he charged me about $90 for diagnosing the
>>>> problem -- that's his standard rate -- even though I figure he knew what
>>>> the problem was in 1 minute, just based on the sound.
>>>
>>> Presumably you get that $90 refunded when you get an engine rebuild, though.
>>> --scott
>>
>> It was 4500 for a used engine and 6500 for a rebuilt one. Not worth it,
>> and he knew it.
>>
>
>That depends on how much additional transportation you buy. As my cars
I'm telling you all, it was not worth it and he knew it. And he said
from his pov, it wasn't worth it. It didn't depend on anything he
didn't know. It's not a 20,000 car, it was a $2800 car and a used
engine would have all the same chance of breaking that the first engine
did. He said the rebuilt engines were rebuilt with better parts than
the original, but it's still 6500. So it wasn't worth it and he knew
it.
>age, I begin to think in terms of, for example, "this brake job will
>cost $450, that's about two months of financing a new(er) car, so if I
>get more than two months out of it, I'm money ahead." Which, as it
>turned out, I was, because the car wasn't at the stage of bits and
>pieces falling off it. :-)