Higher rents were mostly offset by declining costs of goods such as motor vehicles and furniture.

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      My partner’s junk Hyundai Genesis that she loved died - the engine’s timing belt failed and destroyed the whole engine in the process. No new crate engines exist for sale so It was either spend $7500 on a used engine and hope it’ll last longer, or buy something else - it sucks as it was terrible timing all around.

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        Yup, you’re supposed to replace those timing belts every so often so that doesn’t happen. I’m seeing recently sold engines on eBay for $1.5k -$3k so the quote you got was quite high since there shouldn’t be 40 hours of labor involved.

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          Wrong engine block. This was the 2.0 Theta II RS T-MPi used in the Genesis Coupe. That engine has a timing chain, rated to last the lifespan of the engine - and it sure as hell did because it took the whole engine with it! haha this was a garbage engine, they discontinued it years ago.

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        Well, that’s not a good thing. It means people are teetering on the brink of poverty, aren’t spending on anything but bare necessities, and that’s going to cause a major recession and put a buttload more people on the street.