While your free time is valuable, every maintenance job you can do yourself is a job you don’t have to pay someone else to do. Common do-it-yourself jobs include fluid and filter changes, as well as routine work on relatively simple components such as wipers, lights, belts and hoses.
The basic rules always apply:
Here are some cost breakdowns for a few common jobs. While parts prices are likely higher than they used to be on some of these jobs to do them yourself, so is the cost of labor at shops.
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