Grease The Wheels Podcast

Episode 70: Responsibility of Parts Stores?


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We have all seen epic fails on the part of DIY’ers (and in fact, we highly suggest you share them on this post) but how much of it is on the person who did the “repair”? That is a serious question because some of the larger auto parts companies spend a lot of time and money telling people that they can do various repairs themselves. They further enable them by loaning the tools needed to do the job at little to no cost. The bottom line for why this advertising works, and it absolutely does work (just look at how many DIY fails there are out there), is because they are aiming it at an audience that doesn't want to pay mechanics for things that they think are simple. The next big question is whether or not that person is going to return to you with broken parts because they didn't know how to install them properly, and the answer is more often than not, yes! So bottom line, if you have no business working on a car, please don’t. If you're going to anyways, at least let us get to a good vantage point so we can put it on youtube. Also Uncle Jimmy proposes the “put something valuable in front of your car after doing a brake job to see how well you did” challenge.This episode was made possible by our listeners, the members of the Grease the Wheels Nation. It was also made possible by donations over at patreon.com/greasethewheels, because as you can probably tell, this is a long ass episode. It took a lot of storage to get done and it wouldn’t be possible without our patrons, so thank you all so much! We have plans and perks over there for everyone, from the new lot kid at $1/month for basic access to some of our exclusive content and our discord server, to our Master Tech program that gets you all sorts of awesome perks with some of our sponsors and killer swag. Seriously, we love you all and you're the reason we keep doing it!
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