Dealerships are always the most expensive option for repairs. Unless the car is still covered by the dealer's warranty, I'd get a second opinion from an independent garage or mechanic. It could save you a significant amount of $.
Also, it's worth spending a few bucks on a code reader so you can get an idea of what's wrong with your vehicle beforehand. You can get a decent one for under $100 these days. I always have one in my glove compartment.

230 bucks? How far over the limit were you driving?

They hike up the rates for registered sex offenders cruising through school zones at 5 mph.

Sounds like you learned this the hard way.

No ones gotta tell me thrice

I was going 78 in a 55mph zone. 2am on a weekday with nobody else in sight. The cop was hiding by the side of a building next to the highway. I noticed his cruiser out of the corner of my eye as soon as I went past him. Too bad he wasn't sleeping at the time.

I got a ticket for 105mph in a 45mph zone a long time ago while on a beer run for a party at a farm out in the middle of nowhere. About 3 or 4 squads finally caught up to me just as I was about to pull in the long driveway to the farmhouse. I was cooperative and cops were a lot different back then in the early 90's, but I did have some pull since I knew someone who was a high level officer. They took the beer and handed me a ticket. Iirc it was about a $200.00 fine that I paid at some podunk makeshift courthouse.

The rush of that chase was ****ing awesome though. There was one road that crossed over a 4-way intersection and the crossroad pavement served as a ramp that hurtled my little Honda Prelude into a 20-30 foot jump. This was before the police were even after me. I was a nut. The one guy that was in the car with me went to prison for grand theft a few years after that, but ****, I was just at his house last night glow golfing.

Then, there's the story's about that farm house. Like the time we all had a smash-up derby with our cars then drove them into the huge bonfire we had cooking in the middle of "the back 40". The kid that owned it, he used to eat light bulbs.

https://i.imgur.com/KUl2Dgz.jpg

I've never had a speeding ticket. I don't drive.

I've never had a speeding ticket because I drive the speed limit

What is this sorcery