I had a piece of metal in the road damage my resonator and cut it out, but I just patched it together from Autozone parts after running open pipe under the car (sounded great but was loud as hell) for a few days, but it still leaks a bit and needs a good weld with a solid piece of pipe if I can get it... everywhere I've called has quoted about 75 for something that takes maybe 15 minutes of work. I do computer forensics at Key and I don't bill that much! That's $300/hr if you work out the time! LOL.
I'll be going back to school soon (I'm 22), but my career ladder has been all from experience, not education.
Then, two weeks ago, I got hit when I was visiting family near Columbus. Unfortunately, because it was a weird hit, I'm probably going to have to foot the bill for it.