navazsc3

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i do everything i can on my own, i just need a welder and a lift and i'll be set.....

$85/hour shop rate blows

Launch1

I am the only one who works on the SC400. Shop rates suck and I can't see paying somebody to do the same job.

lookEVO

iTrader: (1)

I built mine.

JDMmuscle

iTrader: (9)

lol a thread bump from 2001....

scENFORCER

^ LOL! How did that happen? No one even responded to it back in '01.. haha

Kira X

iTrader: (24)

I usually do my stereo and interior stuff myself. Other than oil changes and installing coilovers, I haven't had to do anything to my SC.

If I had the tools and the knowledge, I would do everything myself.

Toshima

Hey at least someone searched


After being raped on a clutch job a long time ago when I was 16, and my mom had to shell out almost a grand. I have done everything my self. I refuse to pay someone to half *** a job on my car. I will pay a machine shop to do stuff that I dont have the tools to do. And ill pay for alignment.

abounly

iTrader: (27)

my thoughts exactly, this is the holy of holy batman revivals. 10 year revive on a 1 post..

well i do all the work myself, i know what exactly is happening on my car.

Mike552

+1. I wrench on my own car. It's one of the joys of living. The only exception is my other car that is still under warranty. I get nervous every time I bring her in to the dealer.

Tabaka

iTrader: (8)

I have little mechanical skill so I'm always at the mercy of shops. It doesn't help that this is my daily.

JDMmuscle

iTrader: (9)

the best way to learn man is to just tear into something

addisonblc

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i had my brake cals changed by a shop once. could have and should have done it myself.... but i was lazy. on the highway ten minutes later both the front cals fell off. ive never been back to a shop since.

99SC42

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I do my own oil change... only thing i can't do it tuning and welding.

stockhatch

iTrader: (12)

I only work on my car because I cant afford $100 an hour for a decent shop to do it. Next time I will drop the cash on a finished car. It always costs more to build your own, and then you have to do all the work too.

I used to enjoy working on cars, but now it just makes all my joints hurt, takes up time that I could be drinking beer or surfing CL, and makes me cuss when stuff breaks or does not want to play nice.

It does not help that my shop got put on hold and I have to drive to my parents house to use my dads shop whenever I want to work on something. I guess I am just getting old and lazy...

TechGreek

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I try to do everything my self that I have the tools for...some things like Motors mounts I just don't feel like messing with.

I rebuilt the entire front of my car, in the parking lot of our condo.