doing your own service or going to dealer

[thstone]

I've always worked on my cars but was apprehensive about it when I bought my first BMW. You know, its a German performance car and sure to be way over my skill level. Only technicians in white lab coats with laptops know what to do.

Well, after a few big repair bills from the dealer, I was convinced to try it myself and found that working on a BMW or a Porsche wasn't much different than working on a Toyota.

[stephen wilson]

It's not just Porsches. I just replaced a faulty climate control on the wife's RSX with a $50 used ebay unit. It would have been $800 from the dealer, and who knows how much $$$ for labor to diagnose.