Since I read Wendy's blog about how frugal she and her husband are and about how James fixes their cars all the time, I thought I would add my little tidbit.
Matthew's car broke down last weekend. We originally thought it was the water pump. David called his friend who is very handy with anything mechanical for advice on how much this would cost us.
Luckily, our friend retired last spring so he has a lot of time on his hands. He said to come on over on David's day off and they would fix it. Well yesterday was David's day off so he took the car over to his friends. They took about an hour to diagnose the problem and realized that it was not the water pump but it was another part (I don't remember what it is called).
Now we decided the cost of a water pump would be around $300.00. The part we needed was only $75.00. So great we have saved a lot of money. The downfall on all of this is that if it had been the water pump they would have finished fixing the car yesterday. The cheaper part was in a much more obscure part of the car so they had to practically take the whole thing apart. Needless to say they are still working on the car today. I am so glad our friend has a heated garage.
Also, Matthew looked up on the Internet the estimated time it would take to replace this part. GM estimated it should take 16 hours. So we figure that if we had taken the car to the repair shop we would of had to pay about $1,200. in just labor. Thank goodness our friend and David are going to be able to fix the car.
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Hurray for guys that know about cars!! (You'll notice in my post I didn't say what part of the car James replaced when he pulled the engine-mainly because I have no idea what it was....he told me-I'm sure but he might as well told me the part in Russian as I don't retain car lingo any better than foreign words!)
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