Ya know, changing stuff like the oil, headlights, and batteries. Basic maintenance like rotating the tires, greasing up ball joints, cleaning or changing your air filter takes about as much time if not LESS than taking it to the dealer or other shop to have some other person who you know nothing about do what ever they please with your automobile and make you pay them to do it. Even if they break something, unless its major 9 times out of ten they will just rig something half assed up to make it look good so you don’t notice it, cause they know you don’t give your car the time of day. I'm sorry to hear about your misfortune, but try to treat your car at least how you would treat a pet you own. Better yet, you should be treating your car like your wife or girlfriend, try calling her a her, like she so wants to be called.


Edit: to fix spelling, sorry worked a long day.