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A chilton manual to show you the necessities, and yootoob university ( *pro vids* only) to show you the techniques. then *always* double check your work! it keeps your family safe and money in your pocket.
A chilton manual to show you the necessities, and yootoob university ( *pro vids* only) to show you the techniques. then *always* double check your work! it keeps your family safe and money in your pocket.
Although I'm a car mechanic myself, sometimes i prefer to pay the extra labour to a car repair shop to do a specialised job instead doing it myself and costing more or even worse fix it again. Last spring i send my sister's car to a car repair shop for gearbox. They found that rare gearbox rebuilded, the gearbox works like new. If i did the job alone it was 300euro for a used one in unknown condition. The rebuilded gerbox 400euro plus 130 Labour.
I agree with this mechanic. Unfortunately, many of us have to drive to work to our low wage jobs. But still have to afford to keep our vehicles up and running. So we end up finding other more affordable ways of getting it done. But its not always the best. If the person doing the work is not at least basically competent.
I have a hard time trusting mechanics because I just payed $600 for my mechanic to install a chinese brand master cylinder when I could have bought a good one for half the price...I've also had to sue two "professionals" because they screwed me over...professionally.
The sheer amount of dudes proudly missing the point entirely in the comments only prove they're part of the widespread problem. Zero respect for the risk they introduce to themselves (or worse) others.
@@bulldogsautomotiveadventur4387 Right? That and care for the job one does & empathy for others goes hand in hand as a hard ask for these types, as well. It's baffling how many people can be proud of that emotional deficit 😔These kinds of things keep me diligent when I turn a wrench because I'm not the only person on the road, and it's FAR too easy for something gone wrong to affect others; so your message is _absolutely_ appreciated. Keep it up!
Scary Stuff. That person dodged one. Yes, my Neighbor. I know he means well. He knows LOTSA' GUY'S....If you could see his house and cars.....I just say Thank You, I'm good.
I do all the work on my family’s vehicles and the one time i wasn’t around my mom had a mechanic (who had a helper “kid” in the shop) fix a joint and the steering link fell off in the driveway…. NEVER AGAIN
The real problem is that a professional shop charges $400 to change a tierod, which only takes them 30 minutes. And the part is $35. This drives people towards trying to do it themselves. More expensive than a dentist.
AND it's 90 degrees Fahrenheit and I'm in the middle of a freshly blacktopped parking lot, everything takes forever to load with my phones "unlimited" data.
Too many mechanics are scumbags that want to charge me 3x retail cost on parts, stupid prices on labor, then go and conveniently forget to reconnect one or two things they shouldn't have been anywhere near, hoping to net more business down the road. Or I could read the manual and do it myself, properly and not like an idiot. The beer comes AFTER the job is done
@@Wesley-fk7ef I just did a ford 500 with a customer replacement ultima that overcharged and ran the battery down, customer supplied a TYC from rock auto that overcharged at an even higher voltage and ran the battery down…a lot of different brands use the same suppliers for internal parts like the regulator. That truck would probably be a computer controlled alternator so it need to be on a diagnostic machine to rule out a problem with the vehicle, otherwise three alternators in a row is not unheard of…the most I’ve seen is nine.
@@Mitten_ shouldn’t go very long, this one went about three weeks while we waited for back ordered parts and that was really pushing it. The older models could go indefinitely as it was not a necessity, these depend on the lock up.
@@bulldogsautomotiveadventur4387 thank you for the response! I have a 19 edge that has a very slight studder/jerk under 35mph and wondering if that’s a sign the Converter is going bad or potentially the TSB that was posted regarding the reprogramming of the PCM.
Last time I used a garage to service my car they forgot to even tighten the wheel nuts and every wheel was rattling around. It's not just home mechanics.
Well it is wise to get someone who truly knows what they're doing but also fair. Too many out here are taking advantage of people too often. Just for a geater core hose change which is a couple of pressure clamps and a few click in ends you simply push on (not sure what those are called exactly) were going to charge $400-$500. This job only took me a couple hours tops with filling and burping the coolant system included. The actual work of changing the hose took about 20-30 minutes tops. Too many people are too willing to take advantage of a situation. I would have paid a couple hundred but that is rediculous. The book will give an hour or more for things that take less than half an hour to do as well and this isnt even counting a 100% mark up just for getting the part delivered from right down the road from the shop, regardless, picking up the phone to order a part shouldn't have much tacked on much less sometimes even over twice what it costs. Still a good message here, hopefully people will be more careful as I deal with the same in construction people doing things they have no clue about causing more problems as well hazards. Two sides.
The problem is that savings is more then just 20 bucks for example I just put a new alternator in my truck the alternator only cost me 228 dollars if I had a mechanic do it it would of cost between 500 to 600 dollars after labor and god only knows what other feeds. I will agree though that you really need to make sure you know what you’re doing before taking on your own jobs do a lot of research.
My mother's 2014 Chev Impala LS (2.4) is spitting out multiple codes (P0011, P0033, P0106, P0131, P0171 and now P0297). Mechanic gave up on it and said he got them all except the fuel trim (said the long term idle is at 19% and he can't lower it). No idea what to do next - most likely car dealer.
The reason why people bring their own parts is because they don't want to double pay for crappy Napa parts made out of the same factory that the internet parts come from. It's all cheap Chinese shit
Its not the 20 bucks im looking to save. Its the 80 to 120 an hour on a job thats always quoted for 2 hours longer than it actually takes because there might be "eventualities" like something stuck or corroded. Imagine the customer charging you 2 bucks a minute for them to tell you what the problem is in the first place.
@@andyrantshumanphilosopher7571 just got done with one where the customer bought two different alternators and a battery doing it themselves, then paid us to fix it…they didn’t save anything.
