what are some jobs you refuse to do on your car?

[straight6pwr]

ill try anything i have the tools to do. when i fail AAA picks up the tab getting the car to the shop.

[daniel]

removing the tire from the wheel and mounting new ones. i will never do that one again! what a pain.

[iwantspeed]

tint
wheel bearings
starter swap
bitch clip in the shift linkage

[gearheadE30]

Tint application. I can take it off fine. And most bodywork and paint, bcause I don't have the equipment to make it look as good as I want it to. And I don't have a welder yet, so anything that involves that. Otherwise I will and have probably done everything else. I just don't trust anyone else to work on my car :)

[dannyyisntt]

I'll do just about anything. Well, besides removing tires and mounting them on wheels...too much of a pain. Other then that, i do everything else.

[CorvallisBMW]

Rear wheel bearings are a PITA, but I'd still do them. One thing that was worth paying someone else to do was press in/out all my bushings on the rear subframe. I dropped it then gave it to a shop who, for about $200, pressed out all the old bushings and put in my new ones. It was worth saving the hours and hours of frustration, blow-torching, pounding, insanity, etc...

[Tree18is]

I hope nothing terrible every happens, because I cant afford for anyone to do shit!

[Collin]

Trans haters....

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I had a 5' 3/8 extension on my ratchet with a swivel head and another 6" extension on top of that. I couldn't even get near the thing. Wound up taking the intake plenum off and accidentally breaking a coolant line before I could even get a wrench on the damn thing.

Then I realized the bolt head was already stripped from the last person to attempt a clutch job, and had to notch the head with a chisel and hammer it till it spun by hand.

I will never ever ever do my own clutch again.

[Knockenwelle]

I don't do bodywork. That's like sculpture, and I ain't fuckin' DaVinci. I BUILD cars, not shape them. Anything else is fair game, as long as I have the proper tools to do it. If I don't, it's always an agreeable excuse to go down to the tool store... And not like the chalk-red paint on the '30 is anything to look at, but I like detailing really nice cars with matching really nice paint.

[backtrail69]

Ehh, i don't care. If something needs done, i'll do it.

+1 despite how sometimes it sucks

[bimmerboy12]

front end alignments :)

If I can't physically do it it's because I don't have the equipment.

[rob_e30]

The race car? Aside from welding the cage, there is nothing that I have not or will not do.

My wife's car? There is nothing I will do besides put gas in and drive it to the car wash.

[RobE30]

x2 on front end alignments and tire install and removal! My thinking is I can't screw something up on my car so bad that someone else can't fix it;) Don't wanna do subframe bushings again tho:hitler:

[Unearth078]

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tint
wheel bearings
starter swap
bitch clip in the shift linkage

due to a string of starter issues i can have the old one out and a new one in, in 30 minutes(circa summer 2008 ). i made a tool to do it and everything. :)

[BoostMW]

I am a BMW technician , I do all my own stunts