rev up your engines, today I'm gonna give you the top five reasons that you should
do it yourself and fix your own car, and the first reason is really obvious
you can save a lot of money, the average mechanic shop at least in
the big city like I am in Houston, charges between a hundred and a hundred
and forty dollars per hour labor, and they're often not even honest about how
many hours they actually work on your car, I've had people go someplace and
they got charged eight hours labor but they had a guy across the street watch
him and he only worked on the car for a couple hours, now unless you're into
fooling yourself, you know how long you're working on a car, how much time it
takes you, and at 100 to 140 dollars an hour labor, you're saving a ton of money
doing it yourself, now the next reason is this, if you do it
yourself you know you're using quality parts as an example, even if you take
your car for a simple thing like an oil change to an oil change joint, first
thing they're gonna do is they're gonna try to sell you all kinds of stuff which
you may or may not want, but when it comes to the oil that they're using, if
you get their regular oil change you get what's called bulk oil, it's delivered by
trucks it's often in a giant plastic containers or in a barrel that you can't
even see inside, then they just pump it out and put it in your car, you have no
idea what quality of the oil is that they're putting into your car, now unless
you ask them for a quality of oil which
they're gonna charge you way much more than you can actually buy the stuff
yourself, you're not getting the best quality oil that you will get if you buy
it yourself, and even though I'm a mechanic for my own cars, heck I price
around on the internet and locally and whenever they have the oil I want to use
on sale, I buy a whole bunch of it and store it my garage,
same thing with oil filters, I like using a higher quality oil filters, but if you
go to an auto parts store you'll often see the cheap filters might only be
two or three bucks, but the more expensive ones they'll be well over $10,
guess what you price around on the internet and locally, you can find the
high quality filters for maybe four or five dollars, you don't need to pay $10
buying it yourself or paying even more in an auto change place, and again at the
oil change place, if you're getting one of their generic filters, I know a guy
ran one of those and he was buying those generic filters for 50 cents apiece, they
weren't the greatest filters on earth to say the least, now the next reason that
you should fix your own car is because of the satisfaction that you get fixing
your own car nothing beats having a problem, fixing it
yourself, and then away you go, for me that's pretty much a lifestyle, I fix
everything myself you know, plumbing electrical, I don't want to waste
more money on something that isn't that complicated, watching my videos you can
see things like brake jobs, changing spark plugs, changing water pumps, it's
not really all that hard to do and once you accomplish it and get some
satisfaction out of it, hey nothing beats that, now the next reason is, if you're
fixing your own car guess what, you get to be all by yourself
fixing your car, you got one thing that you're doing and in our modern hectic
society of 8,000 things happening all at the same time, it's nice to have a simple
task your car's broken, you want to fix it, you
get to go in your garage or your driveway and be by yourself it's actually quite a zen
experience if you get good at it, now I know this goes totally against our
modern society of planned obsolescence buy something, oh here comes a new model
you got to get that and throw away the old one, but really in the long run for
your own mental stability and financial stability too, it's better to get things
and then fix them rather than just throw them away, and as I've shown in many my
videos, you can actually welf plastic together when it breaks, you can do metal
welding, a welder nowadays doesn't cost all that much money, you can fix
things instead of buying new things because think about it, when you're
fixing your car, you're out there by yourself and your wife isn't yelling at
you because you're doing something constructive, especially if you're fixing
her car, I know a lot of guys will say, I hate
getting my hands dirty, I don't want to get all messy working on a car, hey my
wife got these rubber gloves for me years ago and I've been using them
for decades, keeps your hands from being destroyed, you don't have to worry about
dirt and grease, you can just wear gloves when you're working, now I know some guys
are going to say, oh modern cars are so complex, how can I fix them without
computers, well this little blue driver plugs into your dash, it's a $99 scan tool,
works off of your cell phone, it does all kinds of things, can show you the recalls
your car had, can show mode six data they really have a lot of information in
these things, for 99 bucks you can't beat that, and if you're ultra serious
for five or six hundred dollars you can get stuff that I use as a professional
mechanic, that is pretty much state of the art, that's the one thing about
computers, hey it's like warfare if one company makes something that is really
state-of-the-art but very complicated hey the computer nerds they're quickly
going to find something that you can use to fix that system, you can learn how to
fix things really fast because when somebody finds is a problem with the car
that's relatively unique and they show how to fix it, they're gonna get a whole
bunch of views and you're gonna get that information for nothing just watching a
youtube video, even I use YouTube videos I don't know that much about washing
machines and refrigerators, but when mine break that's what I do, I watch a
YouTube video then I fix it myself, so now you know
the five big reasons you should become a DIY car repair guy, you're gonna
save a lot of money, you can actually have a lot of satisfaction when you do
the job right and know that quality parts were using not just some cheap
Chinese knockoff, because they can make a higher profit buying a cheap part and
marking it up and selling it to you, so if you never want to miss another one
of my new car repair videos, remember to ring that Bell!