I'm a hot mess when it comes to car maintenance. I've finally reached a level of maturity where I can regularly pay others to do maintenance actually on schedule (no more going 2 years between oil changes!). My father wasn't specifically a gear head, so I didn't learn much growing up. I can top off fluids that need it, change a flat tire to the spare, and back in the day I swapped out my AM radio for one with a TAPEDECK.
Now that I have a house with a driveway (but no garage) I could potentially do some maintenance, but I own ZERO tools to do this. What regular maintenance tasks should I learn how to perform and buy the needed tools for?
I don't mind putting in the time for regular maintenance. The thing is I like minimalism in my home (fighting a hoarding tendency gene) so I mind more the thought of buying a bunch of expensive tools I'll never end up using and will moulder in the basement -- and I don't have an easy source to borrow them on a regular basis instead of buying. My car is a low-end 2013 automatic transmission.
I want to find the balance between owning a lot of tools I never use vs. being frugal vs. paying others to do heavy grunt work (small, female, 41, bum dominant shoulder).
August 28, 2017 at 07:42AM
