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Originally Posted by Savage_Messiah
Well my parents know people from the club as either from the fbody club or car friends, i guess it helps tho that my dad has met a bunch of people on here but still...
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Yah, his parents were cool w/ me showing him how to do front brakes right in his driveway. That's the way to learn. I hope your car is still stopping ok Kasey.
Anyway, I was the same as Bill, and started wrenching on my own car in my early 20's. Now I'm in my early 30's and have learned quite a bit, and have saved my family and friends' quite a bit of $$ by wrenching on their cars too. I've done brakes on my bro's old beater, a window regulator in my mom's '99 Grand Cherokee, coolant flush and fill with new hoses on my dad's old Grand Prix, plus brakes on my sister-in-law's Hyundai (twice, ugh!) and brakes on my father-in-law's truck. I hung a cat-back exhaust system (on my back in my driveway) on a friend's '87 SS for $75, and rebuilt another friend's gauge cluster and installed a speedo cable for him for $100 (in his driveway), along with removing an old alarm system. This doesn't even include my own cars, which have an insane amount of hours into them. My '88 was built by me and my friend in my driveway, with nothing more than hand tools and jackstands, not even an air compressor!
Gotta start learning how to do some of the stuff yourself to save money. It's rough being a college guy and having a car for a hobby. It's too damn expensive to pay someone else thousands to build it, unless you're making $100K a year and have lots of leftover $$ to play with. JMO of course.