[speaker001:] Okay, is it Mike?
[speaker002:] Yes.
[speaker001:] Do you repair your own car?
[speaker002:] I try to, whenever I can. I've always been a, a [lipsmack], I guess a product of a handyman father.
[speaker001:] Well, I tell you what, that's, y-, count your blessings because
[speaker002:] Th-,
[speaker001:] uh, it really is good when someone can do some
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] things to a car themselves.
[speaker002:] Yeah. There's, a-, although I'll tell you, you know, over the years the cars get more complicated.
[speaker001:] Well, that's why I don't do as much as I'd like.
[speaker002:] Right, yeah.
[speaker001:] Because they are, I mean they've got, they've gotten complicated haven't they? [Barking].
[speaker002:] Yes. One of my first cars was a fifty-six Buick.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] Which, after awhile I could, you know, take it apart in my sleep if I needed to.
[speaker001:] Is that right?
[speaker002:] Yeah. It, it got to be pretty straightforward to understand and, now since then, you know, the closer a car is to a fifty-six Buick, the, the more I know about it.
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] And then start getting into these Nissans and the like and I just can't keep up.
[speaker001:] Yeah, I, I agree. About all I ever, I never was too mechanically inclined, but I used to always change my own oil and do the points and plugs and,
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] Course, they don't use, uh, [NOISE] points anymore.
[speaker002:] That's right [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] But,
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER] Uh, they do still use plugs.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] And, uh, now brakes, I've always done a lot of, you know, changing brakes.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] [Lipsmack] And I used to do, I could always do the alternator, you know, and starter.
[speaker002:] Yes.
[speaker001:] I don't anymore, but I have on a lot, a lot of times.
[speaker002:] Yes, I understand. My last car repair actually had to do with brakes and it's one I did not do myself. I took the car, my, I have a seventy-nine El Dorado, took it to be inspected
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] and the parking brake failed. So I got under there and messed with the, the ten-, that, uh, that adjustment
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] to make, to t-, tighten it up and
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] that didn't do the trick and then I got there and tried to,
[speaker001:] It probably slipped loose, didn't it?
[speaker002:] Well, actually that wasn't even eventually the problem. I, I did a lot of things that I, I did everything that I could think to do.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] And, eventually I brought it up to a, a place called Just Brakes
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] and it turns out that there's a, the parking brake i-, in the rear, there's a, there's disc brakes and the parking brake is a piston deal.
[speaker001:] Um.
[speaker002:] And because the parking brake hadn't been used in so many years, the piston froze up.
[speaker001:] Oh.
[speaker002:] So they ended up having to pound it out. And one of them, they,
[speaker001:] [Throat clearing].
[speaker002:] were able to get running, uh, kind of oiling it and playing with it and the other one they just, it was just frozen solid, so I ended up having to buy one and altog-, all total, it was just under two hundred dollars, believe it or not, to get all that done [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] Y-, well, it really wasn't quite, s-, as bad as you thought, was it, was it?
[speaker002:] Y-, yeah, actually, I, I think it was a lot of money, but I, I don't, like I s-,
[speaker001:] Well, it was a lot of money, but,
[speaker002:] Yeah, but, I, it got to the point where I didn't know what was going on so,
[speaker001:] You had to have the help, didn't you?
[speaker002:] That's right, that's right.
[speaker001:] Yeah. Well, do you still do much work on them, then?
[speaker002:] I do. Th-, act-, th-, actually that was just a, at, at the beginning of September and, whenever I can, I do try. I [throat clearing] a-, actually, I'd say this. I, I've gotten to the point where I don't change the oil anymore. Only because,
[speaker001:] Disposal is a problem.
[speaker002:] Well, that is one problem, but also these, uh, these fast oil change places, you just can't beat them.
[speaker001:] That's true.
[speaker002:] For sixteen bucks they'll
[speaker001:] That's true.
[speaker002:] not only will they change the oil in ten minutes, and do a f-, you know, as good a job as I can do, but they'll, uh, lube, too [NOISE].
[speaker001:] Right, that, that, I've, I've quit doing that myself.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] And, but one of the main reasons was the disposal of the oil, you know.
[speaker002:] Yep, that's right.
[speaker001:] [Lipsmack] And, uh, but, it, but, no, I guess, i-, that, and the main reason that it's, it's quick.