Which option should I go to for fixing my car? Get my uncle to at a mechanic shop?
Which option should I go to for fixing my car? Get my uncle to at a mechanic shop?
Added (1). My uncle is a mech. And I need a new intake gasket and plenum for my 99 grand am. The local mech. Store said $850 for parts, oil, coolant, etc. Or I could go through the hassle and tow it by tow truck over 100km and it would cost a little over half (parts, oil, and tow truck) the 850 but would take a few weeks
Added (2). and is it worth it?
Added (3). My uncle is a registered mechanic/journeyman/whatever you wanna call it and has worked with anything from BMW to Smart Cars to GM to Ford to bikes, so yes he knows what hes doing. It has all the symptoms and have asked him and some other mech about it and all said the same.
Sounds over the top, how did you come to the diagnosis, you can change the gasket and even the plenum without any oil, coolant etc and you could get one for 50 bucks from a wrecker it's a 16 year old car
That's the going rate for a the very common GM upper plenum intake gasket. What's your time and aggravation worth. Personally, I couldn't go without a car for a few weeks. If you can and don't have the extra cash, tow it to your uncle. But make sure he's worked on these GM gaskets before. They require some TLC
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