It's so very sad...
 

...when it is cheaper for my father-in-law to fly me out to Arizona (sitting in the airport right now) to fix his Grand Cherokee than it is to have the garage that gave him the 800+ dollar estimate for a new rad install (not counting anything "else" they dig up) do it.

whoa... where did he take it?

That is sad...

Wow, that is pretty sad. Did he get more than one estimate?

Thats very very sad. FREE TRIP!

haha, at least it gives a good reason to visit! But yeah, that's absolutely ridiculous. How much is the new radiator? What were they thinking for labor? $200/hour?

$250 just for the rad, heinous labor charge because they claimed they have to take half the front end off to do it. From what I can tell right now, it isn't the rad, it's the water pump (4.0l I-6). I'll know better tomorrow. At least I'll be able to look at a bunch of stuff on the vehicle while I'm here. I was just amazed the damn thing doesn't have any DTC's.

Hey but at least you get some cool (or coochie) points for being the useful and available son-in-law who can help

One of the local garages and Pep Boys (he's like 72 and all alone out here, he teaches at ASU). On a different note, do you know if there are any junkyards in the area, like U-pull it type place?

Very true. Didn't think he'd actually take me up on it though....

At least you missed all of this rain.