Posted on May 16, 2009 - by admin

Saving Money on Car Maintenance OOG 40

Out of Gas Newsletter - Issue 40 May 16, 2009

Saving Money on Car Maintenance

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Gas prices have been risen about 12% in the past few weeks. Details on that can be found here.

Saving Money The Nitty Gritty - How to Save Money on your Car Maintenance

If you’re trying to save money by not buying a new car and/or working on your gas mileage then you will definitely want to do some car maintenace.

You can either do the maintenance yourself or you can hire a mechanic to do it.

1. Doing it yourself.

If you’re mechanically inclined and have no problem with your car maintenance then I applaud you.

There are a few different ways you can learn how.

If you want to do something specific then do a search online.

You can also learn quite a bit from books, many local community colleges and tech schools have courses that you can take.

Hang around a garage, get with someone that knows what they are doing and you can get some hands on experience.

2. Hire someone to do it.

Get references from friends / family and your neighbors.

Call around to get prices on things that need to be done.

Ask how much parts are going to be if it’s a big job and ask can you buy the parts yourself (you may get off cheaper that way).

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