On Saturday the timing chain in the Kompressor snapped. Car has just over 200K miles on it, rust has started eating away at the fenders and I'm afraid to see what it looks like under the plastic panels on the rockers. It was just above idle when it happened, but this means nothing with an interference engine.

I'm guessing that it would take about $1000 to get it back on the road doing the work myself, including doing a valve job and replacing a couple of valves. Given my current schedule, I'm not sure I really want to take this on. Has anyone else gone thru this recently?