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WootFatigue cac/scrote  1mo ago (text post) 110 thread views #311146
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Lowe's' installers wanted $1200 to install my new water heater. So I said frick it and did it myself. House hasn't burned down yet.

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Shit just happened to me. Basement floor had water all over it Sunday morning so I shut off the valves on the tank. Checked water heaters at Home Depot, only between $500-$800 for basic models, phew, not so bad. Not sure I could do the install myself since it was gonna take cutting new pipes since the size of the old tank was irregular, and a new power line run from the breaker box. So I called around, someone could be here Monday morning. Fricking $3300 total. :marseycringe2: At least the guy was here from 8am to like 6pm so it wasn't easy.

This a few days after getting a $6000 estimate to fix a power drain in one of our cars. "Only one wire harness left in the country, it goes all the way from the front to the back, the whole car would have to be taken apart." Yeah, thanks, I'll just spend 10 mins to jump it any time I want to drive it.

If we had kids I'd be pushing them to become tradesmen the very second they popped out of the hole.

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Mechanic was probably too lazy to go through the harness with a multimeter and just went to "replace it"

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Yep, definitely could be. According to him everything from the dash to the side panels to the seats would have to be taken out to find all the places on the harness that's corroded/open, which I understand in theory, but can't they just do one segment at a time? The front wipers only work on high, start there. If that's not a corroded point and doesn't stop the drain, they can move to the rear right window that doesn't work, take off that door panel and check the harness, and so on. But I don't know. I know how to fix pinball and arcade machines and I'm applying that logic to a more complicated system.

Are you a mechanic? Wish I had more information to deal with this but modern cars are pretty complex and siloed into their own technological universes. 2015 Lincoln MKC.

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I walk to nearly everything I need to do in daily life, so my car just sits unused except for driving it maybe once every 3 weeks.

Car battery kept dying because of non-use, draining to the point where I couldn't even jump it and had to replace it a couple times.

Finally got myself a car battery solar panel, leave it hooked up 24/7, and just unplug it when I need to drive somewhere. No more battery issues.

They're not super expensive, a couple hundred if you go for the really high-end ones, typically around $100 though. You can get them in different watts/voltage, so you can probably find one to balance out the constant drain until you're able to get it properly fixed.

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