A lot of my friends and I have found this to be true when working on your own car. We are all professional mechanics, body men, fabricators by trade and only time any of use seem to have any trouble is when we work on our own cars. It has been so predictable, that some of us who need a "fast" repair will schedule a day and work on each others cars versus our own.
Now that one gets a chuckle, a grin, and maybe even an LOLOriginally Posted by petrified.rabbit
Well, a lot of my issues stem from the fact that I am not a mechanic, and never really did any car repair growing up. I just sort of jump into things and then panic after I run into an issue.
Last year I kept reminding myself to change the timing belt, but always put it off because I didn't feel like spending $150 on the parts. Well, I learned my lesson the hard way. Unfortunately, between school and work it took me many weekends and $$$ to actually replace the head and get it running again. To put some perspective on my ability, I think that changing the alternator or perhaps pulling a steering wheel to replace a defective switch were the biggest jobs I had ever done on a car. For me to replace the head with no outside assistance (well, besides here and youtube) was a huge deal for me.
So, working on the car is always an adventure for me. This was a relatively minor episode, though.
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