[speaker001:] okay is it Mike do you repair your own car
[speaker002:] yes I try to whenever I can I've always been a a I guess a product of a handyman father
[speaker001:] well I tell you what that's your count your blessings because uh it's really is good when someone can do some
[speaker002:] the yeah
[speaker001:] things to the the car themselves
[speaker002:] yeah there's although I'll tell you you know over the years the cars get more complicated and
[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 got they've gotten complicated haven't they
[speaker002:] yes one of my first cars was a fifty six Buick which after awhile I could you know take it apart in my sleep if I needed to
[speaker001:] uh-huh is that right
[speaker002:] yeah it it got to be pretty straightforward to understand and and uh since then you know and the closer a car is to a fifty six Buick the the more I know about it 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 course they don't use uh points anymore
[speaker002:] yeah that's right yeah
[speaker001:] but they do still use plugs and uh now brakes I've always done a lot uh you know changing brakes and I used to
[speaker002:] yep yep um-hum
[speaker001:] do I could always do the alternator you know and starter I don't anymore but I have on a lot a lot of times
[speaker002:] yes 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 tension that um that adjustment to make it to tighten tighten it up and that didn't do the trick and I got there and tried to
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh it probably slipped loose didn't it
[speaker002:] but we 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 and it turns out that there's a the parking brake in in the rear there's a there's disc brakes and the parking brake is a piston
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] deal and because the parking brake hadn't been used in so many years the piston froze up so they ended up having to pound it out and one of them they
[speaker001:] hm oh
[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 the so I ended up having to buy one and altogether all total it was just under two hundred dollars believe it or not to get all that done
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah well it really wasn't quite so as bad as you thought would it was it
[speaker002:] yeah yeah actually I I think it was a lot of money but I guess I don't like I said yeah but I it got to the point where I didn't know what was going on so that's right that's right
[speaker001:] well it was a lot of money but you had to have the help didn't you yeah well do you still do much work on them now
[speaker002:] I do that actually that actually that was just um in in in beginning of September and I whenever I can I do try I actually 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 um these fast oil change places you just can't beat them for sixteen bucks they'll not only will they change your oil in ten minutes and do a fine you know good a job as I can do but they'll uh lube too
[speaker001:] that's true that's true right that that I've I've quit doing that myself and but one of the main reasons was the disposal of the oil you know
[speaker002:] yeah yep that's right
[speaker001:] and uh but but no I guess it that and the main reason that it's
[speaker002:] it's quick