$800 car part

[Zoo_View]

I purchased a '75 LTD for a hundred bucks once, because I wanted the engine. I thought it had a 351 Windsor, turned out it had a 351 Cleveland 4 bolt main. I sold the engine and transmission for $500, the front bench seat for $50, and found $28 in change all around the car. After that I sold the body for scrap and got another $70 after the towing fee.

Made out pretty well on that one.

I've purchased a lot of parts cars and stripped them.

Do you put them up on cinder blocks in your front yard and strip them for parts in your spare time?

You could plant bamboo around them to improve the aesthetic look.

 

[Centerpiece]

So an oil light came on today in my 2019 Kia Sorento, which I love but the relationship is now strained. I take to dealer I bought from. Diagnostic cost $192. Am told I need a oil reader sensor. Cost is $800. Forgot to ask what it costs to install because the shock did not wear off until later. So a single sensor cost 1/25th of what I paid for the car? Thank God I'm rich.
I did tell them to look for a used one. WTF.

I was going to say… “only $800 for a part? Must not be a Volvo” that’s chump change in that world.

 

[BlueSteel]

The second opinion mechanic drove your car 150 miles?

Part-time second opinion mechanic, part-time Uber driver.

 

[hedge]

Thing is, the light only comes on when I am idling.

Only when you're behind the wheel, one hopes, else that light be staying on...

 

[takingAdookie]

2007 Honda Civic with 200k purrs like a newbie and cheap parts/labor, homies

 

[UNCatTech]

Do you put them up on cinder blocks in your front yard and strip them for parts in your spare time?

You could plant bamboo around them to improve the aesthetic look.

No, I would typically strip them in about a week and have them hauled of to the scrap yard.

The bamboo idea was much later in life. I sort of wish I had followed through with that.

 

[fourheels]

2007 Honda Civic with 200k purrs like a newbie and cheap parts/labor, homies

My beater is a 2004 Accord with 220,000 miles

 

[Heelsandeers]

My beater is a 2004 Accord with 220,000 miles

Sold my 2005 recently with 200,000 for $4K

 

[UNCatTech]

Do you put them up on cinder blocks in your front yard and strip them for parts in your spare time?

You could plant bamboo around them to improve the aesthetic look.

I've always wondered about people that have multiple cars or lawn mowers in their yards.

They could probably sell them for scrap for $4-500 and clean up the yard.

There's a house that I pass pretty often, every time this man's lawn mower stops he obviously leaves it there and buys a new one.

He has at least 4 riding lawn mowers in his front yard and several cars.

Another, near my FILs house, has at least 8 cars that clearly do not run in the yard.

 

[Zoo_View]

I've always wondered about people that have multiple cars or lawn mowers in their yards.

They could probably sell them for scrap for $4-500 and clean up the yard.

There's a house that I pass pretty often, every time this man's lawn mower stops he obviously leaves it there and buys a new one.

He has at least 4 riding lawn mowers in his front yard and several cars.

Another, near my FILs house, has at least 8 cars that clearly do not run in the yard.

One of my best friends…..we’ve shared many a blizzard in the Presidential Range in New Hampshire’s White Mountains and one epic storm high up on Mount Foraker in the Alaska Range……

He often regaled me with stories about deer hunting with his Dad…..he’d always ask his Dad, “Why do so many people in New Hampshire have junked cars in their yards?”

His father, “Why? New Hampshire is full of rednecks and is like West Virginia. Appalachia runs from Alabama to Canada.”