Subject: Re: Cars, year one, no commuting
Just before I sold it last year, I replaced the front bank camshaft position sensor in my 2004 V-6 Nissan Altima. The part cost $12.

Seems like that isn't outrageous...$12 to make your car go. I just remembered another part...our Jeep had a fender-bender a few years ago. Literally that's all that happened. They couldn't find a bumper, nor the pieces that serve as shock absorbers behind the bumper. The bumper includes the plastic pieces on either side of the center of the bumper, which was the problem. They replaced the metal, but plastic bits and the little shock absorbers/mounts they had to do what they could. No parts.