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Originally Posted by sanddrag
... I understand your concern for not wanting to mess up though. For example, brakes are something I'd rather pay someone to do, however easy they may or may not be. Here's why: on the rainy day when I've got to slam on my brakes and they don't work and I hiy the wall and break my neck and the accident investigator says the brakes weren't installed/adjusted correctly ...
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lots of people think this way - its something you need to get over:
1. if you fix your own brakes, they will work, or they wont. You can take your car out for a test drive, slam the brakes on all you want, and see if they are right. The day after you fix them you can look behind the wheels to check for a leaking hose, and keep an eye on your fluid level for a couple days to see if its leaking.
2. your brakes dont know if its raining, or snowing, or how fast you are driving or where. They are not going to wait for the worst moment and then fail on you.
3. If you take your car to someone else, they may have less skills than you do! The person working on your car may be drunk or stoned or just plain stupid. I could tell you horror stories about work I have paid others to do on my cars, thinking "these people are professionals". Thats what they want you to think, but that kid with the air wrench could be the owners nephew.
At least when you work on your own car, you know what has been done to it, and you have a sense of how it went. If something doesnt go back together right you will know something isnt right. If you take a bolt off and it looks pretty rusty, you get to decide to re-use it or replace it.