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I have no idea how you rack up a $5000 bill despite regular maintenance. Was that a used sports car?

• flyinghamster 5y ago
  Rust. In the northern US, we salt the bejeezus out of our roads in winter, and it eats our cars. Modern cars are far better in this regard, but not immune to salt cancer.
  • Bancakes 5y ago
    I live at the sea and often just straight up spray wd-40 underneath. It's literally its designated purpose.
    • momentary 5y ago
      Jeez, that sounds like a lot of WD-40 use! Do you spray annually or just as needed?
      • Bancakes 5y ago
        Every oil change
• hef19898 5y ago
  Given age, that's easy enough if you include work.
• rascul 5y ago
  Wiring harness is a real pain. Many shops won't even do it. The few that do can charge a premium.
  • hef19898 5y ago
    I have a classic from '82. The wiring harness is a mess, at some point people all kind of accessories to the standard wiring, including a second switch for the main head lights and a totally illegal boat horn with a separate switch to turn it off. I figured out the horn and the head lights, since then I decided to not touch it as long as it works. The car has all of three fuses, no way to have a simpler harness. I once asked a garage, for what turned out to be a faulty relay, and I got a conservative estimate of 2k just for diagnostics. It took me almost two weekends to figure the relay out by sheer chance. Replacing, and diagnosing, a modern cars harness for 5k is actually quite reasonable if not even cheap. Especially since the harness rebuild means basically disassembling the majority of the car simply to get access.