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Originally Posted by Hersbird
My Subaru needed a clutch, but it had 150,000 and the head gaskets were seeping as well. So clutch, timing, waterpump and headgaskets would have been $3500 done at an independent shop 10 years ago. I bet that's at least $5000 today. It was $500 in parts and I did it myself in a weekend. I have a cherry picker but not a lift. Thought with all the Subarus around here it might be a good retirement gig. Do one a week charge $3000 plus parts.
Of couse everything seems like easy money until you run into problems or failures.
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My first car, a 1996 Subaru Legacy, had a bad clutch when I got it at 120,000 miles. Of course I had to do the work myself being a broke kid out of prison... spent the weekend and did it. Jacked the car up and lowered everything from the bottom. Got another 100k miles until it was rear ended.
I'm always scheming how to work for myself, and seeing things through my rose-colored glasses assuming everything will work out exactly as I envision.
The problem with the public is that 1 in 20 really suck, and just want to make everyone's lives difficult. That's probably my blind-spot, assuming everyone is going to behave rationally, and with good will.