Saving Money on Your Car
Over the years I’ve lost more money than I like to think about when it comes to the cars and trucks I’ve owned. And mostly because it was an inexperience thing.
I’ve been scammed by mechanics while stranded on a road trip in the desert; I’ve fired the parts cannon at a repair I did not correctly diagnose; I bought the wrong tool—or more precisely, a too expensive tool when a much cheaper one would have done the job just as well; I’ve wound up in the emergency room because I did not wear the proper safety equipment while working on a car; and, failed to recognize the signs and symptoms quickly enough to avert disaster with a vehicle (fortunately it wasn’t my car).
But that’s all in the past. I don’t make those mistakes so much now—I have plenty of new ones always in the works.
My point is that after a repair or maintenance I like to go back over the receipts to calculate what it cost me and then do some armchair wrenching on how I could have done it cheaper. You’d be surprised by just how much you can learn from this simple practice and cut down on your car repair and maintenance expenses.
Scan Tool Investing
What got me reflecting about this lately was an informative 100PercentJake YouTube channel video where the host discusses the merits of owning and using a new scan tool that not only reads and passes on trouble codes back to you for diagnosing problems you are having with your car, but is also capable of two-way…
