My 1999 F150 came up from the Boca area.. Fortunately not a spot of rust anywhere when it got here.. Im aware of the insurance issues in Fl, Lots of companies leaving the state due to massive losses and risk of more due to storm damage... Insurance companies love taking money from you... Hate, hate, hate, paying claims when they come in.. But that's another thread all together.
What is the most money you paid for service on your vehicle?
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paulsharvey
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One of the big problems in Florida with insurance, the Massive fraud. Insurance isn't ment to cover entire roof when it's only minor wind damage, and could be repaired for $1500 vs $15,000. The people putting coffee on ceilings to show water damage, and of coarse the insane prices people throw at shadey contractors after a storm. Someone was telling me about $20,000 quote to remove a few large dead trees blocking a driveway recently, after this last storm. I would bet that quote didn't even include hauling off the debris; probably just pushing to the road, for the state to remove over the next few weeks as part of the road clearing. Heard a lot of stories of people getting $5k for 3 or 4 blown off shingles...
Now, (some)insurance is requiring inspection of any roof over 15 years old annually, or total replacement, just to keep coverage. I had to replace mine (it did have some problems, but i would have patched and milked it for 5 more years), but ending up re-shingling it myself, think total, including nail gun, and 2 pieces of 7/16 OSB was like $1600. Had to pull a permit to keep the insurance off my back; and guess what? Got canceled anyways. Had to find another provider for 75% more.
JasperFrank
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Vehicles don't rust out in the PNW like they do in the rust belt, it isn't uncommon to replace an engine with a junk yard motor, cause everything else is still sound. In today's money most spent was 2,700 dollars for a 302 ford motor out of a rear ended, totaled, low mile car. To replace the 302 in my '74 Ford Econoline Van that had 320,000 miles on it. Got another 200,000 out of that engine, which was still running strong when I sold the Van cause my right knee couldn't do a manual trans anymore. My cut off point is '93. Anything after that, it is too complicated and expensive to consider putting major money into it.
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It use to be like this in California but having to be emissions inspected from 1976 and newer really sent a lot of perfect rust free and damage free cars to the scrap yards.
One official said cars last too long so we need to keep up the smog inspections.
One official said cars last too long so we need to keep up the smog inspections.
Larry Caldwell
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I just spent $7000 to put a new engine in my 2003 Mazda B3000, replace ball joints, and several minor repairs.
Larry Caldwell
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Lots of nice rigs on car haulers heading north. We don't transfer the title until they get to Oregon to dodge the California sales tax.
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And they must be delivered... either commercial carrier or contracted by Dealer...
I made a couple of runs to the boarder delivering cars to Oregon residents.
rangerfredbob
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The only real thing I pay labor for is tire balancing, some alignments and windshields... I drove 30k or so miles on some tires I got for $60 at an auction that I mounted myself without balancing so I'll skip out on that here and there 
I specifically bought my '97 Ranger because it was totaled in a way that was an easy fix (no brand on title from their ditch incident), bought it for $450, $100 in junkyard parts and a few other things maintenance wise and so far I've put 60k miles on it... sure I rear ended someone that cost me $300 in parts and I've put $500 in tires on it recently, spent like $70 in labor balancing those...
Heck, just this year I've rebuilt two manual transmissions for my vehicles and one engine and one more engine to go for the winter... a few years ago I put like $1300 in parts into a transmission for my '00 Explorer, that thing was screwed... I need to put about $3k in parts in my F350 for new injectors, high pressure oil pump and tuner to work with the injectors...
I like to stay in the years of vehicles before all the stupid electrical junk which starts getting bad in the early '00's... my newest is the wife's '03 Camry which is the next to get an engine, those things are known for having bad rings apparently...
I specifically bought my '97 Ranger because it was totaled in a way that was an easy fix (no brand on title from their ditch incident), bought it for $450, $100 in junkyard parts and a few other things maintenance wise and so far I've put 60k miles on it... sure I rear ended someone that cost me $300 in parts and I've put $500 in tires on it recently, spent like $70 in labor balancing those...
Heck, just this year I've rebuilt two manual transmissions for my vehicles and one engine and one more engine to go for the winter... a few years ago I put like $1300 in parts into a transmission for my '00 Explorer, that thing was screwed... I need to put about $3k in parts in my F350 for new injectors, high pressure oil pump and tuner to work with the injectors...
I like to stay in the years of vehicles before all the stupid electrical junk which starts getting bad in the early '00's... my newest is the wife's '03 Camry which is the next to get an engine, those things are known for having bad rings apparently...
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I've spent around $5000 between front end work and new tires on a truck we used to have.
At work.... I've spent quite a bit more than that.
At work.... I've spent quite a bit more than that.
I am constantly hearing people talk about how much money you lose driving it off the lot... anyone who buys a car, then turns around and sells it deserves to get burned.
I bought my 2018 Colorado in 2020 with 26k miles on it. I was looking for new but couldn't find what I wanted. The only thing this was missing is a rear sliding window. The Carfax showed something had been done to the passenger side but the salesman denied it. In 2020 vehicles were hard to find, and I had paperwork showing nothing had been done to it so I took a chance.
Between repair bills I love the truck.
Just after the warranty ran out it started shuddering between gears. I thought it might be a u-joint. It turned out it was a known problem as they had put the wrong transmission fluid in at the factory. Rather than coming good on it they put out a TSB... it cost me about $400.
8 months later I was tripping codes again.
It turns out there was another TSB out... all GM 8 speeds of that era had a problem with the wiring harness in the tyranny.
That one cost me a grand... which included new fluid to replace what I had just paid for earlier this year.
I bought the truck knowing that GM transmissions are junk but expected it to fail at 130k so planned to start saving for that $5000 repair bill when I paid the truck off. Instead I've dropped $1400 into the tranny, along with other bills from normal wear and tear. This was supposed to be my last truck... tomorrow I am applying for a part time job so that I can make payments on a new Toyota.
It won't be a ******* GM product... they may be "too big to fail" yet I don't appreciate them wasting my tax dollars to keep it from happening.
I bought my 2018 Colorado in 2020 with 26k miles on it. I was looking for new but couldn't find what I wanted. The only thing this was missing is a rear sliding window. The Carfax showed something had been done to the passenger side but the salesman denied it. In 2020 vehicles were hard to find, and I had paperwork showing nothing had been done to it so I took a chance.
Between repair bills I love the truck.
Just after the warranty ran out it started shuddering between gears. I thought it might be a u-joint. It turned out it was a known problem as they had put the wrong transmission fluid in at the factory. Rather than coming good on it they put out a TSB... it cost me about $400.
8 months later I was tripping codes again.
It turns out there was another TSB out... all GM 8 speeds of that era had a problem with the wiring harness in the tyranny.
That one cost me a grand... which included new fluid to replace what I had just paid for earlier this year.
I bought the truck knowing that GM transmissions are junk but expected it to fail at 130k so planned to start saving for that $5000 repair bill when I paid the truck off. Instead I've dropped $1400 into the tranny, along with other bills from normal wear and tear. This was supposed to be my last truck... tomorrow I am applying for a part time job so that I can make payments on a new Toyota.
It won't be a ******* GM product... they may be "too big to fail" yet I don't appreciate them wasting my tax dollars to keep it from happening.
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