XPost: alt.home.repair   
   From: NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com   
      
   In alt.home.repair, on Sun, 30 Apr 2023 09:43:51 -0800, RonTheGuy   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Apr 30, 2023, ?? Mighty Wannabe ? wrote   
   >(in article):   
   >   
   >>> If the tire changing machine at HF costs $100 then it pays for itself the   
   >>> first time you need to replace 4 tires on your vehicle (at $25 per tire).   
   >>>   
   >>> The ability to repair your tires at home is just an added convenience.   
   >>   
   >> I love to fix many different things at home, but I have an aversion to   
   >> prying open car tires myself, especially when it is a lot of work, and   
   >> not expensive to pay others to do it.   
   >   
   >My wife uses that exact same excuse on me all the time. :->   
   >If someone doesn't want to do something, there are always excuses for why.   
      
   HOw do you know what is an excuse and what is a reason?   
      
   How do you know if a reason is WHY someone doesn't want to do something,   
   versus something thought of later?    I plan ahead and my reasons are   
   reasons.   
   >   
   >I watched the videos. Doesn't look all that hard.   
   >   
   >Of course, youtube videos only show the tires that worked out well.   
   >But some of those videos were of some guy in his back yard, another set of   
   >guys in a garage, and even one was an old Asian guy in his pajamas and   
   >slippers in his driveway. So I doubt it's too hard if you want to do it.   
   >   
   >Same thing I tell my wife.   
   >So that might not work on you either. :->   
      
   I'm sure your wife woudn't work out for me.   
      
   >It seems like it's easy to do at home if you like working on your car.   
   >   
   >If you don't like working on your car, then nobody can talk you into even   
      
   I love working on my car.  I almost wish it would break more often so I   
   could do more things.  When a drug made me drowsy and I hit the curb and   
   had to replace the half-axle, ball joint, brake disc and one other part,   
   it was the most fun I had all year.   
      
   But I still don't want to remove tires from rims.  It's more work than   
   it's worth and there are shops that have pneumatic tools that go bing,   
   bam, bom and it's doen.   (Although I think $20 is an old price and it's   
   closer to 40 now.)   
      
   And I don't want to have to bolt the manual tire machine to the garage   
   floor.   
      
   >doing an oil change, as the main excuse people use who never did things is   
   >that they don't want to do them (which is a perfectly good excuse).   
      
   I did an oil change once.  I even bought the constainer that lies on its   
   side and collects the oil.  Then I had to go find someone to take the   
   oil.   Once is enough.  Now I pay someone who is all set up.   It's the   
   same reasosn I don't make my own nails or aluminum foil.   
      
   >But this should be the type of group for people who actually like doing   
   >things for themselves instead of paying people to wash behind their ears.   
   >   
   >Ron, the humblest guy in town.   
      
   Humble, I don't think so.   
      
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