I'm not sure why you feel the need to complain/argue with me just because I commented against your post. This seems to happen to you alot over on the GOLFMKV forums. I never said I wasnt an enthusiast. I was saying I LEARN by DOING. I never got to where I'm working now by letting people do the job for me. Hands on is the greatest experience anyone can get. And why someone who wants to work on their car and modify it cant do so knowingly and have no apt for learning is beyond me. But again, I seem to be misunderstood. If its what someone wants to do, I have no problem against that. Nobody should care anyways...I'm just another person that they'll never meet in their lives. I'm just opinionated.
I don't see why you feel you need to complain about people not working on their own cars. It has nothing to do with you being misunderstood, but the fact that you felt the need to complain about others not doing their own work and still calling themselves a car enthusiast. You say you're opinionated, well I'd like to welcome you to a thing called forums where opinions can clash in the form of discussions.
And maybe I've misunderstood the line between being an enthusiast and doing my career. I live by designing cars, touching cars, and testing cars. I fondle a car every hour of every day. I have learned that you can save SO MUCH DAMN MONEY by doing the job yourself. Granted I have infinite available resources where I work/live, but if someone wants to save money, they can do it themselves, EVEN if they rented the tools to do the job. Its still significant.
It's not significant he asked for quotes, not reasons why he should do it himself
Also, it is ignorant to say such a thing about the shop. I know you know what a security waiver is for so I'm not going to try and insult your intelligence. Many shops around here are open to such. So my point is valid.
You live in Lovertown :thumbsup: and he's in Canada, not all shops practice the same thing.
Nobody is stopping you. If thats what you feel then so be it. I'm not criticizing what you value, I'm criticizing the irony and hyprocracy behind it. Political stuff....you know?
Who knows....maybe I'm just trolling you guys for some good coversation.