Who here helps friends out by doing vehicle maintainance?

I do. I've already done 5 brake jobs, some ball joint replacements, one or two coolant flushes, to spark plug swaps, etc. I feel like my place is turning into a repair shop.

I don't mind doing it... as I'm learning a lot, but it comes to a point where it feels like it is repetative work. Like I should have them pay me a nominal labor rate. But I just don't have the heart to. They pay me back in other ways, which I'm fine with.

On the flip side, I feel like it's a vacation from my "regular" job.

 

has anyone come to you for Staxx yet?

 

No, but one asked me about a Magnaflow kit exhaust for his Nismo... just a clamp on... but still an exhaust system.

I got my flex tubing sitting in my garage for mine, just been too busy... or like helping others out with their so-called, "dire" automotive problems. I think I care about everyone else except for myself lately.

 

I don't mind "helping" friends out when they need it. But if they come to my house and want to leave a vehicle for "me" to repair then there is going to be some $$ involved.

 

I helped a guy i work with this weekend do a brake job. He want's to learn how to do more wrenching to save some cash. He is younger than me with three kids, so i helped him out. My dad and my uncle both taught me to work on cars when i was younger, so something simple like brakes is a cake walk for me. It took less than an hour to put rear pads on his Honda Odyessa and that was with him doing the work and me pointing a few simple things out. He learned a lot, and now he can do the front ones by himself. The shop was going to charge him over $100 for the rear brakes, we did it for under $40...
Pay it forward...