{"id":13396,"date":"2023-11-20T11:11:23","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T16:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=13396"},"modified":"2024-03-03T11:46:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T16:46:36","slug":"more-truck-pocketbook-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/20\/more-truck-pocketbook-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"More truck pocketbook pain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I just spent over $700 to replace the &#8220;power steering gear box&#8221;. I don&#8217;t know what that is but I know it can leak power steering fluid &#8211; I have spots on my pavers to prove it. Now I am told I need about $1,000 in extensive work on the front brakes (and I know that isn&#8217;t a bad estimate &#8211; that is the lower of the two that I got). And on my way over to get the second estimate, the A\/C went out. Another $300. So over $1,200 (and nearly $2,000 if you include the power steering gear box) for a truck that has barely been used in 3 years. But as long as I have the fifth wheel I need the truck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every time I put money into it I think &#8220;that should fix it for a while.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I am beginning to think that &#8220;for a while&#8221; means &#8220;for a few days.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just spent over $700 to replace the &#8220;power steering gear box&#8221;. I don&#8217;t know what that is but I know it can leak power steering fluid &#8211; I have spots on my pavers to prove it. Now I am told I need about $1,000 in extensive work on the front brakes (and I know &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/20\/more-truck-pocketbook-pain\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-truck"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-3u4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13695,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13396\/revisions\/13695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}