[speaker001:] all right I guess well we're recording now uh well the last thing I had done was a a muffler put on my truck and then I usually do my own oil changes
[speaker002:] yeah my car needs uh an uh I think a muffler but um not sure because I haven't looked at it yet it's just getting louder
[speaker001:] hm yeah
[speaker002:] to live in New England
[speaker001:] oh yeah
[speaker002:] yeah where do you live
[speaker001:] I live in Fort Worth Texas
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] oh and uh I guess uh so do you do your own car repairs or do you take it to the garage to have it done
[speaker002:] I mostly do my own
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] I I find it uh more satisfactory and I like to save the money too
[speaker001:] oh yeah that's true I try to do most of my own to but nowadays a lot of these cars are getting to be especially on engines getting to be computerized and stuff so
[speaker002:] yeah makes a lot harder
[speaker001:] yep
[speaker002:] I've got uh some hesitation problem that uh I haven't figured figured out it's got fuel injection and it's all computerized so
[speaker001:] well yeah
[speaker002:] I don't know
[speaker001:] uh I think sometimes that could be the computer going bad on you
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and the only way to fix that is by taking it and having them analyze the computer
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] because we had the same problem on our car
[speaker002:] hm
[speaker001:] and uh they took it in and they found a problem with the computer itself because it quit on my wife one time coming home from from a friends house it just quit on her died on her
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] but other than that I usually like I said I try I do all the spark plugs changes wires and I do my own tune-ups and stuff uh other than the major stuff I usually take it to the car you know repair shop because I don't have much time to do much anything else
[speaker002:] yeah that's one thing finding the time to do it
[speaker001:] that's for sure uh what
[speaker002:] it did you do your muffler
[speaker001:] no I take it down to Midas and have them do it that way it's guaranteed if anything goes wrong with it they got to replace it
[speaker002:] yeah that's that's not a fun job either
[speaker001:] no it was uh pretty simple really they they did it in about a half hour you know and it would've cost me just as much for the whole thing because it came with a an assembly
[speaker002:] hm
[speaker001:] uh it it uh unbolted just in front of the muffler and it went to the tail pipe and it was just all one piece and it would've cost me just as much to from the dealer just to get the the part than it would be to have it done down there so I just went ahead and had them do it
[speaker002:] hm what um what kind of vehicle
[speaker001:] at the I got a Nissan pickup
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and the like I said the price of the assembly would've been more just about as much as having Midas do it so  it was just easy just to have them go ahead and do it real quick
[speaker002:] yeah yes a a lot of times the the bolts are all rusty and makes it hard to get it apart anyway but
[speaker001:] yeah last time I looked underneath it all I mean just rusted to pieces
[speaker002:] well yeah if you let go far enough it'll fall off
[speaker001:] oh yeah uh oh but I usually like I said I usually do a lot of my own work and uh the only we've only only had one like I said had one major problem with our car and I let them handle it at the car dealer since it was still under warranty
[speaker002:] um
[speaker001:] so
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] uh do you do all your own tune-ups and stuff
[speaker002:] yeah uh spark plugs the coolant changing the oil
[speaker001:] oh yeah
[speaker002:] uh I see I had to do quite a few things when I when I bought this car used uh the alternator was loose uh had to fix that and they had the uh