550 dollars later...

I got my car working at 100%

Friday I took my car in, as I blogged about it. They took the car for a joy ride...ahem...test drive. Then he called me up with what they thought it was, and the cost.

It was the driver side CV join / axle or the Differential. Luckily it was the cheaper of the two. The guy didn't even have a cost for me if it was the differential. Truth be told, I don't really want to know what it would have cost.

Well the CV joint ended up costing about $350 after it was all done. Fuck, labor was $85 / hr.

Well that only fixed about 80% of my problem.

Today I took my car in, again, to a different place. A tire shop this time. Well long story short. I ended up buying two new front tires, ok I knew I needed them but didn't want to buy them yet. So that was about $50 for each tire, at least they are just lil ol' Saturn tires (ie: kinda cheap). The tires I had on my s-10 were $150 each for the front and $180 each for the rear.

So after the tire shop was done bending my over. It ended up costin' around $200. I do like that shop though, I didn't get charged full price for the tires so that helped some. Heck I could have gone to cheaper shops, for both parts. I wanted to go where I could trust the guys working.

So now I got no money. I even paid for all this my self, so that's cool. I hate having to ask for money. Even more so when I know I'm going to be asking for a small chunk of change when I start my school.