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    Working on a partsco lot.

    For those of you without a garage, or your own driveway, or have are prohibitions in your lease where do you work on your cars? Do the parts suppliers allow you to install what you bought in their parking lots without hassling you? Do they limit the types of jobs you can do?


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    my apartment frowns upon working in the parking lot. so i go to a parts store or a friends driveway when available for basic stuff. otherwise there is a shop in denver called diy automotive. they rent you a space in their garage with a lift and a large variety of tools for about $40/hour.

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    Quote Originally Posted by benwerks View Post
    my apartment frowns upon working in the parking lot. so i go to a parts store or a friends driveway when available for basic stuff. otherwise there is a shop in denver called diy automotive. they rent you a space in their garage with a lift and a large variety of tools for about $40/hour.
    From a half-dozen DIY garages, at least one in each of the metro area's four corners, a decade ago, there is now exactly 1, and it's in Barrie, a good hour outside the major Toronto metro area. When I lived in Barrie I had a DIY two blocks away. I never needed it. I could use one now for some of my projects. @ $40/hr., it doesn't make sense to do oil changes though.
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    id say its also about an hour for me to get to the diy maybe 45 minutes depending on traffic. doing things that i can do on a jack stand in a parking lot. like replacing my struts or or alternator or anything less difficult than that. ill do that in a parking lot or something similar.



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