This is a moot point, because I am totally unlikely to buy a 12-cylinder car. Whan I had a gasser, I don't think I ever paid more than $3.00 for a spark plug, and they lasted years and never seemed to miss for me. But supposing that the plugs did cost $6.00 each, then I would be most certain of getting the super-expensive $6.00 plug by buying them myself.

$131.80 per hour is reasonable if it's someone else's money. Perhaps not my money. It takes me a lot of work to make my money. I tend to think I'd do this job myself, even if it took twice as long. I need to make at least $400 to pay anyone $363, being as I have to pay taxes on what I earn and so forth.


It's not that I doubt that some expert does not deserve $131.80 per hour, it's that I feel I deserve to keep it even more.

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Semibodacious Transmogrifications a Specialty

1990 300D 2.5 Turbo sedan 171K (Rudolf)
1985 300D Turbo TD Wagon 219K (Remuda)

"Time flies like and arrow, yet fruit flies like a banana"
---Marx (Groucho)