Joe Pinsker

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WSJ Your Money Briefing · As Car-Repair Costs Rise, More Drivers Are Taking the DIY Route · 3 Dec 2024 podcast

You can buy specific repair guides that are for your car's make, model, and year.

But a lot of people actually end up finding good quality stuff on YouTube.

There's a good deal of variance on the information out there, but there are some people putting out really good step-by-step instructional videos on all sorts of different cars and all sorts of different parts.

One auto repair expert who I talked to said that sometimes even in a repair shop, a professional will fire up YouTube when they are working with a car that they're unfamiliar with.

It sure seems like it.

It seems to be something that's on more people's minds.

There's this automotive market research firm called IMR that has survey data showing that in 2020, about 26% of drivers said they would likely try doing a repair themselves if their vehicle needed fixing immediately.

And in the first half of this year, that percentage is now 30%.

So it seems to be ticking up.

Paint was one area that some of the experts I interviewed had some hesitations about.

But that was also an interesting one because I did talk to a guy who found a kind of low-budget workaround that seemed to do really well for him.

He went to – and I didn't even know this sort of shop existed.

But there's a shop that will sell paint to auto body shops.

So they're a business selling to another business.

And he asked them if they could –

give him a little spray can of black paint to match the color on his Toyota.

And they did.

He just sprayed it on and it worked.

So paint was one area where it might end up looking bad, but maybe it works well.

But that said, I think there are some real areas where DIY people should be really cautious.

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