Old cars, what a pain

Earlier this week I took my 95 Avalon to Big O tires to get it aligned, what a big can of worms that brought about. They informed me that they would not be able to do the alignment because my inner tie rod was really loose so that needed to be fixed first, quoting me at 200 bucks for the fix. Well being married to the handiest man alive Jared and I decided that he would do the fix and it would only end up costing us around 40 bucks. Hrm, well once Jared started getting everything off he found more and more things that needed to be replaced , great. Once he had it all taken apart Blake got into the front seat and began playing with the steering wheel, apparently when it is all taken apart if you turn the wheel really hard you can ruin your rack and pinion. So now we get to replace that too, thanks Blake. I think we have already spent over $400 bucks and still have a more to spend for the alignment and new tires. Stupid old cars, what a pain...