My dad was always a car guy. When he was younger, he liked to restore cars and occasionally convert them into hot rods. I remember watching him in the garage with some old car, helping him as best I could at the time, and he would more or less enter a Zen state while working on them. It was almost like working on old cars was his form of meditation, a way in which he could communicate with an unseen and holy world. Either that, or he just liked cars.
Because of the skills he developed through this most interesting hobby, he always liked to fix the family cars himself. If we have a Subaru Legacy, he would buy all of the pertinent manuals and buy the Subaru legacy car parts that might be needed to fix the car himself. Only rarely would he find himself over his head, and at those times the cars would be fielded out to whatever mechanic he knew that would give him the best price on the repairs needed. He was shrewed enough to know what the price point should be, and skilled enough that no mechanic could get away with sub-quality work, and because of that, he had their respect.
Oddly enough, I'm not much of a car guy. Children usually choose at least a few different paths than their parents, and while I have always had an interest in cars, I never developed the skill necessary to make anything of it. Now, however, with the economy being what it is, and with a growing family to feed, I find it expedient to pick up some repair skills for the cars we have.
My attempts have all been relatively successful, albeit small jobs. With the right Subaru parts, I can replace headlights and headlight casings, fix some body damage, and do some minor under the hood repairs. I've done breaks with a friend of mine once, but we did it in the dark, don't ask me why, so I would be hard pressed to be able to do them again.
One thing that recently intensified my interest was getting a quote on what should be a simple repair. The entire list of replacement parts totaled less than $5, but the mechanic wanted to add $65 in labor. This is for a job that quite literally should take less than fifteen minutes. When I saw that, I knew that I would be better off learning how to do it myself. $5 verses $70 is a no-brainer, especially when I know where to buy Subaru parts.
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At SubaruPartsForYou (http://www.subarupartsforyou.com/) not only do we offer lots of accessories we also have a huge inventory of genuine Subaru tribeca parts priced far below Subaru's factory list prices. Art Gib is a freelance writer.Distributed by Content Crooner
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