redsturgeon wrote:I have just changed the oil on my car this morning.
I changed the oil/filter in my 63 Rambler last year, and fitted LED headlamp bulbs, and earlier this year I replaced the inlet valve stem seals using an air compressor to hold the valves up.
On that car I do pretty much everything, but it does help that I have a pit, and a huge tool kit.
On my 74 Land Rover I do most jobs, but frustratingly it won't fit over the pit because the idiot who built the garage* made the door too low, although it will fit into the other side of the garage so I can at least work indoors.
On our 1990 Pug 205 I do very little. Over the weekend I replaced one of the washer jets and some piping, I might do the oil changes, but even by 1990 some things had become a bit difficult and I'm happy to entrust it to our local garage. Also, I have to jack it up to get underneath which adds to the faff - I can get under the Rambler and the Landy just as they stand.
There's probably some sort of inverse square rule that applies to servicing; when I started out in the 60s, I used to change engines in the street, now I have a double garage and a huge tool kit and I have give myself a good talking to before I even get in there and do the basic biennial brake fluid change.
I need to change the glass in the Rambler's driver's window, at some point in its 58 years someone has put the wrong glass in both front doors and they don't close properly as the top slope is wrong.
I have two spare doors and the service manual, all I have to do is take it all apart, probably a day a side... but I'll need new door seals that I have to order from a chap in New York State and somehow I just never get around to it.
Me? Getting old?
V8
*the idiot who might have been me