Having owned several cars over the years, I've had my fair share of automobile breakdowns.
Not a whole lot of fun at any time.
Plus your car will normally break at the worse times.
The question today though, is learning how to repair your car worthwhile? Give me the liberty to answer this question with a yes and a no.
To start, let's look at the yes answer.
If you truly enjoy tinkering with the inner workings of a car or truck, then for you, it's a definite yes.
Automobile repair can become a joy as you begin to really understand the motorized carriage that takes you from point a to point b.
Also, you would score a yes, simply because many repairs fall into the 'simple enough to do yourself' category.
If you learn how to complete simple repairs, such as, doing an oil change, repairing your brakes and replacing belts and such then you could save yourself a bundle on this repairs.
For example, I just completed the replacement of the front brakes on my family's van.
Parts cost about $200 and the labor was free! I have also done brakes on several occasions in the past, so it really only took me about three hours to do this job.
In the end, I saved over $250 in labor costs.
So for me, it was a great way to save some money.
Because I need to do the rear brakes on the van and the front brakes on our car, I have a potential savings of over $700.
As you noticed though, I did say yes and no.
I would say no to learn how to repair your car, when you start getting into repairs that are quite complex and a lot can go wrong.
There was a time that doing your own spark plug replacements was on the yes pile.
With the tighter and tighter engine compartments in mini-vans with the combination of aluminum block engines, there is almost too much that can now go very wrong.
I would never consider trying to repair anything within an engine or any bolt-on accessory that is very hard to access.
These repairs are repairs that are better left to a trusted mechanic.
I hope that this answers your question to whether or not that you should learn how to repair your car.
One final point; if you find that you do enjoy the merits of being a home mechanic then consider taking auto repair courses at your local college.
You may be totally surprised by how much you do enjoy learning how to repair your own car.
Not a whole lot of fun at any time.
Plus your car will normally break at the worse times.
The question today though, is learning how to repair your car worthwhile? Give me the liberty to answer this question with a yes and a no.
To start, let's look at the yes answer.
If you truly enjoy tinkering with the inner workings of a car or truck, then for you, it's a definite yes.
Automobile repair can become a joy as you begin to really understand the motorized carriage that takes you from point a to point b.
Also, you would score a yes, simply because many repairs fall into the 'simple enough to do yourself' category.
If you learn how to complete simple repairs, such as, doing an oil change, repairing your brakes and replacing belts and such then you could save yourself a bundle on this repairs.
For example, I just completed the replacement of the front brakes on my family's van.
Parts cost about $200 and the labor was free! I have also done brakes on several occasions in the past, so it really only took me about three hours to do this job.
In the end, I saved over $250 in labor costs.
So for me, it was a great way to save some money.
Because I need to do the rear brakes on the van and the front brakes on our car, I have a potential savings of over $700.
As you noticed though, I did say yes and no.
I would say no to learn how to repair your car, when you start getting into repairs that are quite complex and a lot can go wrong.
There was a time that doing your own spark plug replacements was on the yes pile.
With the tighter and tighter engine compartments in mini-vans with the combination of aluminum block engines, there is almost too much that can now go very wrong.
I would never consider trying to repair anything within an engine or any bolt-on accessory that is very hard to access.
These repairs are repairs that are better left to a trusted mechanic.
I hope that this answers your question to whether or not that you should learn how to repair your car.
One final point; if you find that you do enjoy the merits of being a home mechanic then consider taking auto repair courses at your local college.
You may be totally surprised by how much you do enjoy learning how to repair your own car.
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