Do you work on your own car(s)

[Texarkandy]

The recent thread re: "how long do you keep your car" got me thinking.

There is certainly not a one-size-fits all answer to the question of how long one should keep a car - as this can be directly related to the cost of repairs as the car ages. It becomes much less cost efficient for someone who can't or won't work on their car to keep it as it ages.

I'm certainly no expert mechanic, but I can get around a motor a little bit. Some things I see others pay hundreds of dollars to have done at the shop I've fixed for tens of dollars at home.

(I'll also attempt just about anything in home remodeling & repair - save for my recent roof job, but only because the steepness of the pitch on my current house might have posed a hazard to my life or limb - a man's got to know his limitations! - but that's perhaps a subject for another poll)