> ...I take no offense to the statement. Simple economics, if you earn more > than it cost to pay someone to do a job you're not interested in doing, why > not? If you like to tinker, and enjoy changing oil, as many of us do, that's > a > different story. If you're not all that interesting in changing oil, and > you're giving up an hours worth of work at $200 to mess about and save $20, > it > becomes a bit of a false economy.There's a difference between a hobby and > chore. Hard to put a monetary value on a hobby, but it's easy to put one on > a > chore... > Well stated and I agree completely. Another reason is that certain items just aren't worth doing if it's going to turn into an ordeal.
When I had my 300D, I changed the trans fluid once which was quite enough. Red fluid on me, on my clothes and the driveway with the car up on stands which of course meant dragging the jack out and lifting both sides first. And then there was the one time I changed the fuel filter on one of the 190Es. The damned thing is located, with the pump, under a panel forward of the LR wheel. Multiple wrenches required plus pinching off the lines (almost, as it turned out) and then trying to avoid the gas running down my arms. I vowed after those two projects that somebody else would be taking care of them in the future. I've had a bit of experience disassembling entire cars for restoration and putting them back together 4-5 years later but some stuff I just won't do anymore. Snook is right. RLE ************** New year...new news. Be the first to know what is making headlines. (http://www.aol.com/?ncid=emlcntaolcom00000026) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090107/1779154c/attachment.html> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
