I didn't realize how insanly expensive it was going to be.
So....
I don't know what to do.

I'm leaving february for New York. I still need to:
sell volvo
get my car back
move all my stuff
go to court
drive across the country in something...

And I don't have the funds... shtick...

anyone know where I can ***** out my automotive talents for some bank?

 

give me a call

 

What happened to your car? Why is it at Subaru?
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Ditto

 

Well I had the new head, cam, gear, timing belt, tensioner and everything. However, I was supposed to be at sea until Feb 12th. I am trying to sell the volvo and with my busy schedule I couldn't see myself having time to pull the motor to change the head. So I gave it to Subaru. Service said they'd cut me a great deal on labor so I figured that it couldn't be too much to pull a motor and change the head gaskets. Especially when I had already paid for all the parts except the head gaskets and intake manifold gaskets. Well I guess I was wrong. There must have been a lot more parts that were needed. I know it needed an idler for the timing belt, but I couldn't think of anything else.
However, the bill is currently over 2000 bucks. I haven't reviewed it yet and they said they would "help" me out some. Hopefully they'll help me out a lot.

I don't know what to do.

 

Ouch.

When I was writing at Servoc, R&R'ing the motor on a V8 Lexus = 24.5 hours book time @ $78/hr = $1911 just in labor.

Doing any headwork was ON TOP of that figure.

Scoobies are much easier, however it's never cheap to get a dealer to do stuff for ya. They're GOOD, not cheap.

Didn't they give you a quote first?!?!
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yeah 25 bucks an hour for labor.

 

I could've sworn they charged me $40.

 

well I'm sure it's more than 25

 

just to clarify,
I'm sure some of the cost is a misunderstanding.
I'm not mad at the subaru guys
I'm just mad at myself for letting this bill occur.
I should have done it myself, but I didn't have the time
I thought it was going to be under a 1000 bucks and I was very wrong.
I have NO money now. I don't know what happened, but my accounts are completely drained. I'd have to get a loan to pay for this.

 

Well Braun was really cool and knocked it down to 1300.
Pretty much dropped most of the labor.

He's always been real cool.

I didn't take into consideration the proper price for the required gasket kit. Also, they didn't use my 130 dollar timing belt tensioner. They charged me for a new one. So I get to take that one back if I can find the reciept.

Overall, that's way better and I'm much happier.
However, I still don't have the funds right now. It'll be a few days.

 

I responded to your post with some links.
They have pictures and all the info you could want.
Except I have 40000

 

I'll pick up my car today

 

gluck!!