See how the dollars are adding up! And this is just by the book maintenance that has to be done or else you could be left waiting for AAA.
The $1000 starting to look small.
The timing belt (as previously posted by others and me) should be your first move. Specially if it has not been changed at 60000. Count on someone who knows what they are doing to handle this. I agree with Seth on this. The dealer might be the right place to do this. At this point get friendly with that dealer and ask them to give you a heads up on the status of your engine, tranny, suspension you know (just window shopping).
Detailing 100-150 (see if you can get them to do the engine bay as well and make sure they are professionals) Some car washes will give you discounts if you buy a coupon book of car washes.
Cap stands for: Wires/Distributor Cap/ Rotor (in other words a complete tune up including flushing the coolant system)
Take advantage of freebees. Midas, Speedy, Ntb and many others. They will check the underside of your car (brake, suspension, muffler) for free. They'll print you out an estimate with the info.
Wasnt that $1000 and no alarm? :cry:
But now you are driving a clean like new Galant ready for more stuff.
It can get expensive, unless some how some way you do the stuff yourself. Yet I know that time, know how and a place are always against us. And yeah.
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