Originally Posted by abaya

Well, again... it's Iceland, and everything is at least twice as expensive as in the US. I'm going to ask him if he'll give me a break if I pay in cash, as they do sometimes here, but I've gotten away with that for the last few repairs with a friend-of-a-friend... this time, I needed a trusted shop to take care of it, so I probably can't pay under the table.

The junkyard trip itself will take him almost an hour, so there's that as part of the "labor," I suppose. I would have gotten the part myself, but then I'd have to go back to the shop--a 40 min busride + walk, in addition to making another appointment for the car repair another day, and then having to do the bus thing all over again--and I'm just tired of it, want it to be done NOW! Did I mention that gas is $10 a gallon? Anyway, the costs do add up.

Funny thing is, if I'd had this fixed a few months ago when the currency was 30% stronger, the cost would have been more like $500 instead of $350. (The dollar was THAT bad.) So I should be grateful that I'm spending 30% less, right?

EDIT: Remember that the MAF is used... if he got it new, it would be $300+ for the part. So there's that as well.