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Originally Posted by Psy-Fi
That looks like an unusually high amount just to repair an oil leak. If I went to an auto repair shop with an oil leak (after first checking the oil filter and drain plug to see if they were just loose and only needed tightening) and they quoted me a price like that, I'd go and get a second and maybe a third opinion from one or two other repair shops (not a dealer, though, as they always charge much more for everything than a typical repair shop.)
I would expect to pay $3,000 to $4,000 for a complete, engine replacement for a typical car at a non-dealer repair shop.
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My apologies; I omitted the boring details:
I originally went to a mom and pop garage which after $500 I learned not to do with a Subaru. They gave me the entirely wrong diagnosis.
Back to the dealer I found I had to replace the following:
- A dead battery
- Both head gaskets were bad
- Both valve cover gaskets
- Spark plugs tubes (oil seals)
- Spark plugs
- Exhaust gaskets
- Timing belt
- A cracked radiator
- And the radiator hose
It's an eleven year old car with 98,000 miles on it. It just wasn't worth scrapping it and getting into a lease. I'm driving without collision or comprehensive and a lease would have tripled my insurance rate so that's out of the question.
Hopefully the leak is fixed at this point. We won't know until all the leaked oil has burned off the engine.