Yesterday I had a winning moment in my quest to be more self-reliant. I taught myself how to change out a burnt bulb in my car's tail lights!
Now, if you're a "car person" you're probably chuckling to yourself over something so simple. Now that I know how simple it is, I'm chuckling myself....but after reading my car owners manual, searching for tutorials online, and struggling for an hour and a half on the task itself, I was about ready to throw in the towel and take the darn thing to the repair shop. I don't have much mechanical aptitude and the instructions were written with the assumption (to my mind, anyway) that the user understood certain terminology.
After much gnashing of teeth, I figured it out. The bulb cost $5.49 at the auto parts shop, which is considerably less than what the labor charge would have been at a repair shop. Yay!
Next on the to-learn list for cars: jumper cables and changing tires. Oi.
Not my car, but same make and model, and even the same tail light!
photo from here
Now, if you're a "car person" you're probably chuckling to yourself over something so simple. Now that I know how simple it is, I'm chuckling myself....but after reading my car owners manual, searching for tutorials online, and struggling for an hour and a half on the task itself, I was about ready to throw in the towel and take the darn thing to the repair shop. I don't have much mechanical aptitude and the instructions were written with the assumption (to my mind, anyway) that the user understood certain terminology.
After much gnashing of teeth, I figured it out. The bulb cost $5.49 at the auto parts shop, which is considerably less than what the labor charge would have been at a repair shop. Yay!
Next on the to-learn list for cars: jumper cables and changing tires. Oi.
Well, color me impressed! Really! I don't know how to do this.
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