>try to fix car >break more things EVERY TIME

>fixing 20 year old vehicle
>plastic breaks if you so much as look at it wrong

>>17760668
Stop owning old shitboxes.
My problem is i love old shitboxes

>>17760680
i am poorfag so i must own old shitbox and i must do all the work myself

My father does that. It feels bad, but I try not to let him help me with my car too much anymore.

>>17760703
my advice
spend a day or two soaking everything in penetrating oil before you work. and buy a torch. also carry a wire brush to remove loose rust from any bolts so you dont round them out. also buy some vise grips
take a day and make a trip to the junkyard for new bolts/fittings for you car before you work on a specific part of it

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>>17760679

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>buy cheap eBay parts
>fitment is completely off

>break more things
That's good, though! That means more things to fix, which means you'll level up your repair skills faster.

>>17760867
pretty sure these means I failed the repair and gain no exp

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>>17760751
>fitment

>>17760668
Just be slower and pay attention

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>Try to fix car
>Do fix it but now I can tell something else is wrong and have to take everything apart again

Seriously, this just happened.

>Steering clunking
>See obvious worn out rack bushings
>Replace bushings
>Hear a new clunking
>It's the steering rack itself
>Replace rack
>With tight steering now can feel loose shocks
>Replace shocks
>Now I can tell the car pulls a little
>Bad ball joints
>Replace ball joints and thankfully caught the loose swaybar bushings while I was at it.

I'm ready to set this thing on fire.

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>attempt to clean engine bay
>fuck everything up

>>17760679

Oh god, I owned a 1986 Mercedes 300E that had spent its whole life baking in California sun. Halfway through repairing some minor interior problems I'd broken every single piece of plastic in the car. It was like glass.

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>try to touch up paint on 2 inch scratch
>end up with 2 foot long stripe
kill me now

>>17760668
>Try to fix your car
>Come across other problems
>Fix them as well.
>Learn more about your car
Feelsgoodman.

>Try to fix car
>Realize I'm above this pleb shit
>Call up Porsche dealership and have them take care of it under warranty

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>likes cars and wants to learn how to work on them
>dont have a car

>>17760951

Buy one you bus riding faggot

>>17760951
apprenticeship at mechanic

i did it at 17 and now i'm 28 and really dumb but good at make car go

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>try to grow up
>get respectable job
>sometimes have to collect clients
>can't keep turning up to in a rusted out shitbox
>buy modern ecobox
>nothing to actually fix or work on
>if something does go wrong it has to go back to the dealership since it's the banks car still
>quit respectable job
>no spare cash to buy a project car
>working on my old shitbox was one of the only things that made me happy
>feels bad man
I've made a huge mistake

>>17760951
Go to a junkyard and take stuff apart

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>Starter fries itself on mother's Town & Country
>Have to push it to a secluded part of Kroger parking lot so it doesn't get towed
>Replace starter myself because poorfag
>Succeed after an hour or two, van starts
>Start backing up out of parking space
>Rapid thumping sound when I try the wheel
>Turn off engine, start it again, try to turn
>thumpthumpthump
>Noise eventually goes away after a minute or two of driving
I'm sure it's fine

>>17761008
Power steering pump needs alignment

>>17760981
Since you have a respectable job why not just grab some $1500 shitbox from Craigslist and use it as a hobby, while keeping the econobox for work?

>>17761030
what is reading comprehension for 500

>buy cheap and easy fixer upper 80's muscle car for first car
>turns into full time project that has taken 5 years

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>>17761061
Which one? I'm more or less in the same boat lol

>>17761087

I swear to god if I ever see that car in person I'm going to set it on fire just because it's posted in every fucking thread.

>>17761061

>Buy 2000s muscle car in "good condition" because I'm tired of old project cars
>It ends up needing more work than all my previous cars put together

>>17761091
I'll be sure to post it even more just 4u

>>17760867
It just gets worse exponentially until the car is all broken and apart in my driveway

>>17761087
Camaro. It all went downhill when i decided i didnt want the V6

>>17761124
Wew. Mine came with a v6 too but thankfully that had already been swapped out. I doubt it was swapped right though, seems like there's a fuel problem

>>17761124

I hope you decided you didn't want a V6 before buying it.

>>17761124

>buys $1000 V6 Camaro car instead of $1500 V8 Camaro to save money
>realizes it's horrible and spends $2500 to swap a V8 in it

Why do people keep doing this?

>>17761138
I wanted a V8, but couldnt afford a V8 car. Then i figured id give the V6 a try, only to find out the engine in it doesnt even work and instead of putting the time and money into fixing it, i decided to just get a V8 out of the junkyard and throw it in there

>>17761150
it was $300 and the only one in my whole town

>>17760867
He is the Dovahkiin!

>>17761154
Should have saved a grand

>>17761168
it all worked out in the end anyways. Found a Big Block in the junkyard and got it for only $600. Im currently in the process of swapping the cam so i can put a dual carb on it and put it in. Im pretty sure ive got a better deal than a stock 305 camaro of the same year

>>17761100
It is a big post...

>>17761030
>quit respectable job
Reading is hard anon

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>>17760668
For me, it's always a thing of
>Fix one thing
>Find three or more new things that NEED fix'd

Just recently
>Fixing some erratic electric gremlin in turning lights, must be because they're 22 years old?
>Take out rear lights, inspect and clean them
>Found 3 new rust holes right through the body, along with 2 inches of accumulated dirt that I recognize, it's at least 15 years old
>Need to take off rear bumper
>Bumper is held on by old ass screws that have welded themselves to the car

Beat them a bit, and soaked them in penetrating oil, hopefully that will do. Can't really heat them since they're pretty much enclosed by plastic, so it's oil and bangin' to loosen them, chisel+hammer to bang-torque them out, or drill them away (not very viable though)

Also possibly gotta take off the radiator to have a looksie at the headlights and why they smell like battery acid inside, and why do they have some corrosion and the plastique inside is getting shitty...the list just never stops growing