Originally posted by ryan s No one touches my car besides me, unless I can look over their shoulder
Hee. Apart from that among myself and my friends, it's often been an economic necessity to take that attitude. The oil change places really just made it much easier to have that done and not have to hassle with disposal and stuff, but I do generally try to be sure they did it right. Back home, a lot of my friends are at least amateur mechanics, though, (And for most of us, at least over some times in our lives, if you want a vehicle, you'd have to fix one up,) so I'd trust them, and presently, we have a little modern car where user-serviceable problems and maintenance are still pretty rare.
You can have 'oil change parties' and make the disposal and such proportionately less hassle, though, if you like the hands-on.
Sometimes I miss my big ol' truck, though. If something needed doing, I never needed a jack: I could just go underneath. It'd be hard to justify one now, though: it'd be a rare day when I could actually fill the bed with anything.