Friday, May 15, 2009

Cars.. gotta love them

The last couple of weeks have been very costly for us in regards to our cars. Mine has been running great and has just over 25k in miles. Not too bad since next month, I'll have had it 2 years. but Erik's car on the other hand has not been kind to us the last two weeks.

We paid it off last year and it's been great for a year. Just the standard repairs. However, when the catalytic converter needs replaced and there are no after market ones, you end up paying $1400 to have it repaired. That was two weeks ago.

This week, we had to pay car insurance and Erik had to get his brakes check out. They'd been grinding. The calipers and inner brake pads needed replaced costing us another $700. So thanks to cars we're out over $2500 in two weeks. Oh well, that's what I have an emergency fund for.

2 comments:

Stratton Family said...

well that sucks. we need our breaks replaced on the Sequoia but haven't done it that was afew weeks ago... we probably should get it done before they go out

Loretta said...

Sorry to hear about that.... when it rains it pours!