[speaker001:] I generally uh prefer to do repairs that I am capable of doing myself if it results in significant money savings
[speaker002:] yeah um I always used to do the the you know the the fairly simple repairs uh recently I haven't because uh uh time's become more of a premium for me
[speaker001:] yeah yeah I'm finding that too
[speaker002:] uh-huh it's also you know it's also getting to the point where I'm sitting there saying well gee unless I am really enjoy doing this this it's costing me more money to do it myself then it would for uh I mean that's the reason I mean it
[speaker001:] that's right you better you better enjoy doing it or else it's not really worth it
[speaker002:] right I
[speaker001:] the last one that that I did myself was I was I found that I was backing out of the garage and I got a little too close to the door on the driver's side I was uh watching too closely on the passenger side I guess and I wasn't paying attention closely enough and I ended up whacking my uh side view mirror off the side of my car which kind of uh made me kick myself
[speaker002:] yeah the the the other things you always do oh geez shoot
[speaker001:] yeah but I looked into getting that replaced and that was going to cost a fair amount of money because I would have to take it to the uh dealer who would put a factory replacement part on and then charge me fifty bucks and hour to do the work
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and so I figured well I can do that myself I I'll pick up the mirror myself which alone was more money than I wanted to spend on a just a stupid little mirror but it's one of those power ones and it's heated heated and and all that
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] and I was going on a trip the next day so I figured I'd go out and put the mirror on but I ended up I had to take the whole door apart uh to
[speaker002:] oh because you couldn't access you couldn't access it
[speaker001:] yeah to get the cable where the cable plugged in to the uh to the rest of the system was way down in the door
[speaker002:] right so it ended up being a bitch huh
[speaker001:] yeah it was more than I really wanted to do and then I got it I finally got it all apart figured out what I had to do and I put the mirror on and I got it plugged in and I put the door back together
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] and everything was fine I also have power windows and I had to have the window down to do what I was doing and oh no I'm sorry I had to have the window up to do what I was doing and I went to uh no it was down it was down I had to have the window down I went to uh put the window back up it was the middle of winter and the window wouldn't go up because I had the cable yeah
[speaker002:] so you had a trip that you had to go to the next day in the middle of winter and your window would not come back up all right
[speaker001:] and no I took the door all apart again and I moved the cable over so it wasn't blocking the window but uh I don't know it used to be fun doing those sorts of things and I don't maybe I'm loosing interest or also cars are getting a lot more complex than they used to be
[speaker002:] yeah that that's part of the reason why I have cut down also is that uh same reason uh last thing I did was just replace my uh uh light on uh
[speaker001:] yeah uh-huh
[speaker002:] you know headlights in the front now that one I you know it actually they actually said to go in and get the service person to do that too and I said well forget that
[speaker001:] oh yeah yeah
[speaker002:] uh but and it was kind of a a pain
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] because you uh you you couldn't really fix it without leaving the lights on
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] because it I didn't have it doesn't have a uh off yeah it's one of those um uh flipping type headlights
[speaker001:] oh okay yeah
[speaker002:] and you
[speaker001:] so you have to have it up so you have to have the light on
[speaker002:] right right and some of them you know they have uh uh one click where you where it goes up and it's like not on on some of the some but this one did not
[speaker001:] uh-huh oh boy
[speaker002:] no but I figured a way to get around it but it was kind of a really stupid way to have to do it is you is you get it up in the air and then you turn then you take the battery off and then it then it can't bring it back down all right
[speaker001:] yeah that's one way to do it
[speaker002:] right and then but then the lights are still out so you're not sitting there going I can't see
[speaker001:] now I think my mechanic mechanic found a way to do that there's a switch somewhere that you can push that uh pop the light up without turning it on
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] I don't know where that is on my car because I have the flip up type too
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] but he did something to make that happen
[speaker002:] right I mean there there probably is but they didn't bother to tell me so
[speaker001:] yeah right privileged information
[speaker002:] that's great uh then that's the other thing is that there always seems to be some really weird tool
[speaker001:] yeah um-hum
[speaker002:] and things like you know oil filters every every car now it's so tight in in in the region where where the engines are you can never get to the oil filter
[speaker001:] yep that's right
[speaker002:] though though I guess it's getting a little better again because um what they did is first they used to have the big cars and big engines
[speaker001:] yep
[speaker002:] then they got the small cars with the not well designed engines now they're redesigning enough that some that to some extent it's it's accessible again but I remember a couple of those cars you know you'd sit there and say
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] there's no way anyone could get in there unless they could take the car and put it up into the air
[speaker001:] yep that's right or unless it's high enough off the ground that you can crawl underneath it
[speaker002:] right yeah
[speaker001:] but that's not usually easy either
[speaker002:] and I uh every year you hear somebody gets themselves killed by climbing under a car or under a jack and the only thing you you know I guess you
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum