When’s the last time you had a financial setback or unexpected costs?

One should always lean to learn new things...a correct list might also help..:) 

Yes, I messed up my list. I should have looked at my receipt when typing my list. To sum it up, everything needed replacing on the front and rear ends. Brakes, rotors, cylinders, calipers, and hydraulic brake hoses.

Things like brakes are easy to do.....hardly and special tools required...

I used to do my own car repairs, but that was in the 60s - 80s. The car I have today needs a new horn...I can't even find it.

I find new cars almost un repairable...you have to strip away so much stuff to get to one tiny electronic bit...plus that tiny bit cost a fortune....
You need to upgrade tool box every week to ,you need so many special little gizmos to unasemble things ....finding nuts and hide bolts is impossible without a manual....
My brothers friend works on Mecedes ...every month he has to upgrade his diagnostic and fault finding computer ...That's £1000 a month or more....

That's why there are mechanics. It's easier to take it to the shop and pay them.

Exactly. Especially when you don’t know what you’re doing.

Hey.....I resent that....I'm naturally blonde Dizzy with it and never know what I'm doing....:(

I was talking about me. I wouldn’t insult a pretty blonde. :)

In other words, you resemble that remark!

Dam...I meant to say that....my iPad changes more and more words by the day it feels :( 

How working people afford to have repairs done in main  dealerships is beyond me....

BMW charge £150 per hour plus 20 % VAT Tax ...:(

I hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but it’s almost like they purposely make new vehicles to where you can’t do repairs yourself unless you’re a mechanic. My dad and uncle used to do their own repairs, their own maintenance,  and help others. With the newer vehicles they take them in.

Dealerships don't want people repairing their own cars or vehicles...American cars would run forever and they made different new models to attract new buyers....modern cars are scrapped after 100,000 miles as the electronics begin to fail and they become uneconomic to repair....

I couldn’t agree more.

My dad had a huge GMC Rambler Ambasador estate with ten seats I think....it was built like a tank ,but had some kind of fibre valve timing wheels ...it's jumped a cog through wear ...it was six litres and use to really roar away ....lol 

My late grandfather once had a 1967 Rambler Ambassador sedan, white with blue interior.

It had a two way tail gate and both my sisters use to sit together in the back facing the rear and play with whoever pulled up behind us....We had people in hysterics with our antic's...lol
The tailgate had an electric window....The car was gold with a wood patten bottom... 

Cadillac made a V10 or V12 monster that could run with no oil in it.....if it got to hot so many cylinders would shut down  until they cooled and then start again while others cylinders rested 

*bookkeeper. It's one word.

OK Professor Nazton the 2nd.

Hey, it's just as easy to get it right as to be wrong.