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Koushirou said:
I’ll eat the shame on that one for sure.
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Don't beat yourself up over that one too much. Some car repair takes a decent amount of strength used at weird and awkward angles. My wife is quite a bit stronger than the average woman, but I expect she'd have a ton of trouble with some of the minor repairs I've done in the past few years. I'm sure if it came down to it, stubbornness could eventually win the day, but some things would be MUCH more of an ordeal for her. Worth considering when deciding whether to take your car in or try it yourself of course. Also, if you don't have a 2nd car, you don't exactly want to be halfway through something that makes your car undrivable and realize you need something you don't have, something broke that shouldn't have, or you just get otherwise stuck for whatever reason.
 
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Burren said:
Blocking ads on YouTube no longer stops and deletes them. Still have to watch the whole thing. New BS change? Depends on the channel? Everything just gets worse and worse over time.
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See if you can download the Brave browser. I haven't seen YouTube ads in like 6 years. In fact... I haven't seen any ads on any site.
 
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Kajiimagi said:
When our cat would not eat it was just over $1K for blood work , knockout juice (he's almost rabid at the vet- hates it) and the meds to get him straight.

Wife's car was $1,400 for new breaks/rotors/oil change and transmission service. Unfortunately you have to maintain vehicles or they will let you down. Did you look and see if that pothole drove part of the sheet metal of the car onto your tire, that would make it do all of that?
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Also, much variance in the success of this - but there have been times known where you can press on the city / county / whatever for the road and the damage caused by the poor conditions.

Sounds like in basic terms, a warped rotor - so new rotor and pads, good... but it could be a lot and many more things
 
Koushirou

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Turned out I need a new wheel bearing and hub on that wheel. Also earlier in the year when I had a hard brake, I had apparently overheated my front brakes, so those’ll need replaced to, but just gonna do that later.

And I guess pothole was the wrong term, but I was tired and brain couldn’t think of anything else. I was turning onto my street and I live on roads with 0 shoulder or anything and part of the curve had eroded away and my back wheel dipped into it I guess at just the right angle to be a piece of shit.

My AmEx is burnt to a crisp at this point.
 
Kajiimagi

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Burren said:
Don’t have time to do it, don’t want to do it.
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And after moving here and winding up in the urgent care getting saline I put a thermostat in my garage. Mid summer it's easy 120F in there. With no humidity you do not sweat so you don't realize you are in trouble until it's too late.
 
Burren

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Kajiimagi said:
And after moving here and winding up in the urgent care getting saline I put a thermostat in my garage. Mid summer it's easy 120F in there. With no humidity you do not sweat so you don't realize you are in trouble until it's too late.
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Shit, that's hot. Mini-split at least for the garage is worth it.
 
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Kajiimagi

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Burren said:
Shit, that's hot. Mini-split at least for the garage is worth it.
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nah I didn't insulate it on purpose. It's basically to keep the cars out of the sun and store some loose items. I have worked on my old tundra, in fact I added step bars, replaced both mirrors and the tailgate. That was .......5 back surgeries ago (maybe 6) now I'd get under the car and have to call 911 to come get me out. Even if I did it all it would take me 3-4 days to recover. Not worth it.
 
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Like 30x80 shop. Very very mildly insulated and only partially. I've been sticker shock afraid to even quote decent insulation and an AC and what the power cost would be. Still better than jag cooking in sun, and stores hay well enough. But ya I can only really do stuff in it spring/fall. Otherwise it's oven or just as cold as outside.
 
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before my dad got terminally ill, for years we had done every repair short of engine/trannie swap. can not count the times a simple job turned into multi-day pita. think the funniest thing, replaced steering rack on chevy impala, and this defeated me.
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i just couldn't fit my hand in the right spot. dad's hands were even bigger and had worse luck. i would go out in the garage try, get defeated, mildly sulk for a while and try again. after a few days, dad said, i am going to call david. i didn't know him, but apparently was a good mechanic but had issues staying out of trouble. he showed up, about 5'10" and 125lbs at most, walked over to the car, asked which one, i pointed to it. he reached it, felt around for about 30 seconds, then said "ok got it"
 
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RobXIII

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Koushirou said:
I had about $15k saved up, but since I lost my job last year, it’s all gone. Was down to about $300 total in my bank accounts when I got my new job. That plus the divorce, gone from having a combined $150k/yr to only $92k/yr, since my new job was a chunky pay cut from my old one. I’ve gotten back up to about $1500 put in savings, but previous car maintenance this year plus cat illness/death hasn’t let me out away as much as I’d like to.

As for doing shit at home, I don’t know Jack shit about cars and sure while I could probably YouTube that shit, and have tried doing that more for things around my house vs. calling someone, I sure as hell don’t trust myself not to fuck up something and then careen off the road into a tree because my brakes don’t work. I’ll eat the shame on that one for sure. I am going to balls up and replace one of my taillights by myself. Progress.
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Sounds like you are doing much better, glad shiat is back on track for you now. I would always do the math in my head after some fights with the late wife, and always told myself divorce was just not worth it. So many duplicative expenses.

No shame on the brakes. I might be buying a fixer upper house because the land it's on is amazing, drywall looks easy but I'll probably fuck something up lol.
 
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Kajiimagi

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RobXIII said:
Sounds like you are doing much better, glad shiat is back on track for you now. I would always do the math in my head after some fights with the late wife, and always told myself divorce was just not worth it. So many duplicative expenses.

No shame on the brakes. I might be buying a fixer upper house because the land it's on is amazing, drywall looks easy but I'll probably fuck something up lol.
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Trick with drywall if you are heavy handed (like me) put it on thick and sand it back smooth. HD & Lowes sell drywall mud that doesn't make as much dust, that shit destroyed my sinuses.
 
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Sludig said:
Like 30x80 shop. Very very mildly insulated and only partially. I've been sticker shock afraid to even quote decent insulation and an AC and what the power cost would be. Still better than jag cooking in sun, and stores hay well enough. But ya I can only really do stuff in it spring/fall. Otherwise it's oven or just as cold as outside.
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You can toss a mini-split in there even with no insulation, you're not looking to cool the place 24/7 or keep it running, you just want to be able to turn it on if you know you're going to be working on the cars. Back when I went to the track often, I had garage work down to a science - before you go, bleed brakes, swap pads, change oil, filter, check diff and trans fluids make sure they aren't burnt, drain radiator and put distilled water in it. Go to track, swap tires on before first session, drive all day, swap tires back, come home, pack car away, next day I'd swap the pads back.

I would have *KILLED* for a mini-split in the garage at that time just to turn on while I was working, it'd be a lifesaver. And mini-splits are CHEAP. Look into it!
 
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