Good Morning!

hope they fix the problem @TAB

No good @TAB with a bit of luck you may have an honest grease monkey. Lets hope so. The pitfalls of maintaining a vehicle...

yeah had same problem like 3 ish years ago @Former-Member cant remember whether I got it fixed or not tbh. Dont know this guy. hes works in next town but lives here. I know how much part costs as already looked at place he is getting it from . so hes charging me $200 and doing it in my driveway so not too bad I guess. prob 1.5 hour job if that

@Shaz51 , oh I'm sorry to hear about Mr Shaz not feeling well. Hopefully he will after a good rest. I hope you had a delicious cup of tea with biscuits and are doing something lovely like reading a good book!

If you want any recommendations @Shaz51 @Former-Member on your genres you like I can help. Books bring me a lot of joy too...as well as puzzles 🙂.

Also, hope you have time to rest.

Sending hugs my friend xx

morning @espressologic @M_T , @lavenderhaze

Thats good to do the checking of costs first. Based on my experience I have had to be really careful with mechanics in the past. Just spoke to someone on here last night about expensive dental bills. The cost of living is sky high. I have been slashing my budget and have been able to save $2000 annually ringing around just getting better deals. My next plan is to restrict meat consumption and gravitate slowly to going vegan @TAB. Sounds like you have a good mechanic that charges fair price but still $400 is a huge chunk of money.

any recommendations will be great @Healandlove

how is your day going so far xx

my Mum is going on an outing this morning with the aged care , think i will see her tomorow as i think she will be very tired this afternoon and sleeping

husband has a doctors app this afternoon

sending you hugs too

@Former-Member

yes, will be trying to tap my super again soon at this rate @Former-Member re bills

I know its getting worse. idk anymore @TAB

dole supposed to be going up in 2 weeks @Former-Member like $25, somehow other payments that went up in jan went up $50, ok might be another increase in september