Comments on: Budget Busters Averted (for now). http://budgetsarethenewblack.com/2010/03/rental-property-expense-auto-repair-expense-budget-buster.html Join us on our journey to lead a debt-free, credit-free, clutter-free life. Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:24:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: retriever http://budgetsarethenewblack.com/2010/03/rental-property-expense-auto-repair-expense-budget-buster.html/comment-page-1#comment-1620 retriever Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:27:41 +0000 http://budgetsarethenewblack.com/?p=2236#comment-1620 I strongly recommend that you get a male friend to come in with you and pretend to be your brother or somesuch (a friend of your husband's maybe) when you go in to the dealer next. I am normally quite non sexist about stuff (I tote 40 and 60 pound sacks of dirt in the garden, shovel, hike miles, used to be a marathoner) but most pretty women get their faces ripped off at auto mechanics. Also, I recently got estimates for some body work after a hit and run and body shops and garages are hurting now in the bad economy, and a formerly reasonable body shop owner tried to charge me $5000 for a job another is going to do for $1600 (equal reputations). Good luck. I strongly recommend that you get a male friend to come in with you and pretend to be your brother or somesuch (a friend of your husband’s maybe) when you go in to the dealer next. I am normally quite non sexist about stuff (I tote 40 and 60 pound sacks of dirt in the garden, shovel, hike miles, used to be a marathoner) but most pretty women get their faces ripped off at auto mechanics.

Also, I recently got estimates for some body work after a hit and run and body shops and garages are hurting now in the bad economy, and a formerly reasonable body shop owner tried to charge me $5000 for a job another is going to do for $1600 (equal reputations).

Good luck.

]]> By: Kim http://budgetsarethenewblack.com/2010/03/rental-property-expense-auto-repair-expense-budget-buster.html/comment-page-1#comment-1612 Kim Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:47:19 +0000 http://budgetsarethenewblack.com/?p=2236#comment-1612 I hate car problems! We try to avoid the dealers too. But sometimes they are necessary. At least you're not stranded somewhere. I hope it all works out. I hate car problems! We try to avoid the dealers too. But sometimes they are necessary.

At least you’re not stranded somewhere. I hope it all works out.

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