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My 18yo insisted on changing the oil himself instead of taking it to the shop. The dog and I sat in the shade to supervise 😎 (i.imgur.com)

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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I hate working on my car but I move often so I don't have the benefit of knowing a trustworthy mechanic. Half of the times I've paid someone to do a basic maintenance that I could have done myself I found out after that the job hadn't been done properly. I don't trust anyone else to critical, yet relatively easy jobs like changing my engine oil or bleeding my brake lines now. I can't even fathom people going through life without learning those basic skills.

[–] Rhaedas@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I trust, but verify before I take the car after work being done. The last time I assumed things were great was at the dealer of all places for recall work. Drove away, car felt like crap once I got on a main road at speed, did the first U-turn I found and took it right back. They forgot to re-plug in one of the injectors. At a damn dealer for the car.