On the road again
The good news: the part for my Eclipse came in and I got it back from the garage today.
The bad news: $988.95
Ok… not that it ever really closed. But this was our first opportunity to get out and do a little caching this year. For the uninitiated, Geocaching is an activity where an object of some type is hidden at a specific location. That location’s lattitue and longitude are published on a website, along with a…
One of the advantages of being a homeowner is that certain home improvement projects are sales tax free, if they fit the New York State’s guidelines of being a “Capital Improvement”. The tricky part can be determining what exactly qualifies as a capital improvement. The NYS Department of Taxation lays it out like this: A…
I was too disturbed after watching South Park last night to comment on Idol… but WTF? Kelly didn’t end up in the bottom three after completely butchering her song (even by her own admission!) and Chris did? I guess America really does love dumb blondes. I also fail to see the hoopla about Katharine. She…
Poor Dave Franczyk is having some troubles this week, due to his flippant use of the term “ethnic cleansing” in regards to the Catholic church consolidating parishes on the east side. Since music soothes, I thought I’d send him this virtual present. *snicker*
Been there… Once you pay off that new ride you end up paying for other things to take away that “extra” money you have! =)
Yikes! Did they end up rebuilding the whole front suspension?
I bet it was $250 in parts and $750 in labor! 🙂
Believe it or not, it was much closer to $750 parts and $250 labor. I think they really cut me a break because I know they spent a lot of time on it.
And no… they only rebuilt half the front suspension. 😉