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Don't beat yourself up about it too much 200

posted by  TwoFortyWagon on  Sun Jan 21 11:31 CST 2007
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Yes, it's expensive, but not that excessive a price for a "professional" replacement. As SPH said, the garage has got to make a living and pay the electric bill too. It would have been more at the dealer, if that's any consolation ;-)

But even though it sucks to pay too much for something, you are still way ahead in the grand scheme of things. Having done your own maintenance for 6 years on this car, you have probably saved yourself thousands of dollars in parts and labor... of which this expense is only a slight fraction. If you only have to take your car to the shop once every five years or so, you are way ahead of 99% of the car owners in North America. The occasional unforseen breakdown will occur, and you chose the convenient way out of it, which is not a sin. Thank your lucky stars it was just an alternator, which is a simple replacement and not something the garage could easily screw up.
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'92 245 5-speed, '92 944 GL auto






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