Have prices for car repairs gone up?

What are you complaining about? £1000pa in 1959 was a damned good wage!

But I'd expect the odd 1d to be rounded down...

I remember paying £30 for a clutch on a Hillman Imp around 1975 in the lake District. It was top whack pricing at the time while on a camping holiday with no choice and they knew it, as I was stuck in Ambleside!

And what is the franked postage stamp for, some sort of tax paid confirmation?

Quickbeam

I may have exaggerated my wage; it was £510 in 1957 so probably well below £1000 by '59!!

Still, it was about 50% of the (then) week's wages, I suppose that is about £250 today. I suspect a similar repair would be a lot more these days?

The stamp was a normal part of the receipt - it was a "my fault" , self paid repair and certainly no way formed a tax claim - I was in the RM at the tine...

I was prompted to Post: Is the Pope a Catholic.

There, I've done it.

The Mechanics that service my Taxi charge about half what the Main Dealer does and operate an almost "same day" service

My car started stalling recently and the diagnosis was that the mass air flow meter sensor needed replacing. The garage wanted to charge me £300+VAT. I did some research and bought a third party replacement part for under £40 and replaced it myself. Took just over half an hour. Working sweetly as should from then on.

rickf

Can I come to your for my next repair? A couple of years ago my wife’s Honda was having a service and MOT at a main dealer and they said a rear exhaust bracket had broken- wanted £400 or more for a replacement rear section. Got a local guy to weld it for £ 50

As an aside, I've had to change browser to see what you are talking about.

I normally use Edge, but had to view in Chrome to see the receipt.

Having said that, the receipt has now appeared after posting the last comment!