[edevinney]

Ouch. Welcome to the club, your wallet will eventually either recover or just get so cripsy you don't care anymore.

Did they at least knock some $$ off the tire job for fuch'ing up your wheel? And for 750 clams did they replace the CVs or just the boots?

Fortunately, some of this stuff can be done in the driveway and other costs can be lowered through careful shopping based on the trove of info found here on D'phus. Brake fluid flush will cost $20 in ATE fluid, plus another $75 or so the first time if you want the fancy bleeder and tools. Tire deal is hard to beat at Radial Tire in Silver Spring (I drive there from P'ville) and the alignment is the one thing to get done at HBL ($150 or so done by an attentive tech on a regularly calibrated machine).

You can also snag lift time at the various tech sessions for some of this stuff.