Do you ever fix your car yourself?

Not these days. Everything is covered in and specialist IT equipment is needed to diagnose and fix things. I pump the tyres when the car tells me to, put fuel in and top up the screen washer, but can't remember how many years it is since I needed to top up the oil. The car goes in for an annual service, which I am fortunate enough to be able to afford.

Back in the 1980s I would change my own oil & filter, and maybe an occasional set of spark plugs. Plus, I've swapped out the occasional 12v battery and I have changed a few tires over the decades.

I used to be able to change a tire, Pop taught his daughters how. But the two times I was doing it, people stopped to help me. Funny, that.

I ride a motorcycle to get around and I have a female friend who's a licensed mechanic at a motorcycle shop where I take my bike in for scheduled service. I'm a very technically minded person professionally, but that doesn't mean I pull the oil drain plug out myself. She does it for me as I stand there declining invitation to do it while she watches. What I know in the end is if she did it correctly or not.

I can easily tell someone else how to fix a mechanical problem after computer-accessing hidden maintenance manuals which outline how to remove spark plugs in a yacht or a car for example, after I research the answer myself, but researching and 'doing' are two distinctly different skill-sets. Just because I can find the answer, doesn't mean that I actually complete the task at hand.

My father has a mechanic's workshop on his farm, complete with an in-ground hoist and every tool imaginable. He once owned a 1972 Chrysler New Yorker car which he bought at a car auction. He tried for 7 hours straight to change the spark plugs on that 8 cylinder engine and in the end, he could only change 7 out of 8 because the 8th one was inaccessible.

At midnight one night when I was 18 years old, I was able to access the Chrysler tech manuals online on my laptop computer and by 1am an hour later, he had that 8th spark plug removed and replaced. Did I fix the car? No, he did!

Actually yes kinda! The clutch went and luckily it was a cable one, I was far from home so I just pulled on it (I guessed where it was!) And it started working again!!

In the 1960 through 1990 my cars were fully mechanical ones and i enjoyed doing almost all of the maintenance myself.

i used do a few minor things...today i cant see and have chronic pain so bad and car sits too low to slide under

I used to do a lot of work on my trucks, but not since they got so complicated and I got old.

I used to

Not so much anymore. Since things went computerized I have it done by people with the right equipment.

All the time, From replacing a simple power steering pump to rebuilding the engine myself in my shed

I've never fixed anything myself. This is why God invented overtime pay so I can hire others to do that :D

Depends. I can change the oil, battery, breaks, tires and do a tune up on most cars myself

With a friend who lent his expertise

Not anymore. I don’t have the patience or the technology.

All the time, years ago.

Now you can't even see the engine under all that stuff....

Wish I could, that’d be a disaster waiting to happen.

Mostly

Sometimes.

I did in my much younger days.

Do I wear high heels? No

don't even pump my own gas

i mostly maintain it... oil changes, fill air...

Yes. I did that yesterday as a matter of fact.