Originally Posted by
stevedmc
Yet it's perfectly okay to trust a high school drop out to work on a car just because he is a mechanic.
Case in point, last year I pulled the engine out of my Delorean to change the clutch disk. There are supposed to be four bolts that hold the transmission and engine together. To my surprise, one of the bolts were missing.
Back ten years ago I paid a mechanic to replace my engine, long before I felt comfortable enough to do stuff like this myself. Apparently when he put it back together, he only used three bolts to mate the engine and transmission together. Either one of the bolts were missing when he did the job, or he simply lost one of them and didn't bother to tell me.
Do it yourself and you know it has been done right, or wrong for that matter. Hire someone else to do a job, and you better have faith they are going to do it right and not rip you off.