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.

Occulthawk is right. You'll be voting Republican in no time. Lots of golf courses in San Diego. Maybe you can stop by Frown's place and talk him into hitting the links with you. ;)

All those repairs don’t sit right with me. I’m hesitant to say it because obviously I don’t know. At around 100,000 you let some **** go. Cracked radiator? Show me. How cracked? Is this a problem now or a potential problem? How far off. Let me get a picture of it to show my uncle in Virginia.

The last part about “hopefully” sounds pretty passive on your part. You just spent $3500. It better be ****ing fixed.

My old beater leaks oil. I just check it almost every time I drive. That ain’t no solution, I know but I have a good relationship with a local shop and they even said it wasn’t worth it. Right now I couldn’t get 3 grand to save my life.

The good thing about the dealer is the will usually get you squared away but if you find a good local shop they’ll hopefully show your wallet some discretion as well.

lol

I haven’t said that in a long time. I’d rather he ended up a dickhead republican than dead. I think he’s on the road to a drug and alcohol problem which he probably thinks is really romantic and cool.

You're right. They did save me some money - a factory radiator would have been $600 but they found an aftermarket unit for $228 with tax and no additional labor. And while the mom and pop garage said water pump replacement is mandatory on all timing belt replacements the dealer said no - any Subaru after 2003 has a water pump good for 250,000 mi and saved me another $250 right there, so I trust that it wasn't a con.

They also gave me a 2019 loaner at no charge for the 3 days it took for the repair. They said if it wasn't ready in time for my trip to not worry about it and go on my trip with the rental.

The car was severely leaking oil - billowing burning oil smoke from the hood and choking me through the vents while so drove, so it was a serious issue.

I really hope it's fixed.

Should've just gone full retro and bought a horse instead

One thing’s for sure

Every year car repairs get more and more spendy

It’s like the college tuition hikes for real

And medical too - they got you by the balls

The joke's on them, being got by the balls is my fetish

It's almost like he's making the case that choice is a cause and effect process.

Which makes it not a choice but simply an effect. Stop using magical terminology to describe simple effects.