A buddy of mine and I were talking today about how much money we have saved over the years by doing our own basic maintenance on our vehicles. Things like changing our own brakes, oil, windshield wipers, etc. It got me thinking about how many people still do that kind of stuff.

So PB. Do you do your own work on your car?

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Pittsburgh, PA

Deo Vindice

I know how to drive it. I know how to wash it. And I know how to put gasoline in it. And while I have helped change the oil before, and have helped change the brakes before, I am a complete ignoramus - shamefully admitted - if it were to come down to me doing these things by myself. I wish my dad would have required me to help out when I was young so I would have known these things.

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Except my option would be, "Nothing. That's why God invented husbands!'

Bill's you name it I do it. Thank the Lord, we've saved so much money, and so do our friends!

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Toni Cunningham, Wife of Bill (Theognome)
Parkwoods OPC, Overland Park KS

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Can a mod add/change the poll to reflect Toni's thought?

Done. And I added one. Hope you don't mind. If so, let me know and I'll nix it.

Nice

I chose the first because I don't actually do anything, yet I do know how to change a tire, check my oil, replace my wiper blades, etc. I changed the oil on a previous car, but not the current ones.

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Anna
Wife of Tim/Marrow Man
Louisville, KY
Member of Midlane Park Presbyterian (Associate Reformed Presbyterian)

I know how to check the oil. But I usually just have my neighbors or the men at church do all that for me.

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Westminster Presbyterian Church, PCA
College Station, TX

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I put the key in it and it goes.

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Me trying to work on my car would be like me trying to plan the next NASA lunar expedition.

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Mike
PCA
Edmond, OK

"Tomorrow may be our dying day; let this be our repenting day."

-Thomas Watson

I would like to think that I can do any mechanical job on a car given the right tools and time, but in reality I struggle with the electrical end mostly. I know how to read a diagram, but trying to get my brain to apply that to what I see is something totally different.

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Josh Taylor
Verde Valley Reformed Chapel, OPC
Cottonwood, AZ

I still service my own and swap out an alternator, starter, compressor etc., if I can get at it without dismounting the engine or need a lift.

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Rich Koster
1689'er
Browns Mills NJ USA
Often Goofy Reformed Eccentric
Romans 7:14-25

It's pretty embarrasing to admit I'm an engineering student who knows nothing about cars whatsoever.

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I'm just in it for the higher calculus.

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I hear the last one was a real smashing event! I trust the same would never be true of you and your car!