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[Sixstring]

I'll do just about anything that doesn't need a ramp to do, as long as i have the confidence to attempt it. Just got JamesV6-CDX to do my cambelt, but will defo do the next one myself now I've seen and helped do it. I suppose things like HG are beyond a lot of people, but I really begrudge the £50-£70 an hour local main dealers and small garages charge you for a job you COULD do yourself with a liitle patience, preparation, and confidence. Will never begrudge paying for what I cannot do myself, but as i get older, there are a few things I just don't WANT to do. These are the joys in owning a car.

"If you gotta have hosses, you gotta have losses!"

[cmeonthemove]

Before joining here I'd not touched any mechanical parts of a car as I just didn't know what I was doing. The amount I've learned on here and from watching people like Daz has given me a bit of that confidence to do jobs myself such as changing the door lock motor.

The main hurdle I have is lack of a suitable place to work on the car. My driveway is on a steep slope so doing anything under the bonnet involving fluids or anything requiring wheel removal is a no-no, so these sorts of jobs are done by a local family-run garage that we've used in the family for decades, who don't charge the earth.

Any major jobs particularly requiring Vx parts like cambelts are now are done by the likes of Daz as they know what they are doing and can do the job for half the price of a garage/dealer. I feel much safer doing it this way.

[Mr Skrunts]

If you dont attempt a job then you will never learn, as TB and Jimbob have allready mentioned, they had little or no experiance when they started.

Yes garage charge from £40 per hour and do everything to a book timescale, even if they do it in half the time you still get charged the book time.

Then they put thier apprentices on the job, these may not be much more capable than your self and have to keep asking for help or advice.

The thing is we all start some where, from changing a bulb or a cracked number plate.