Joe Pinsker
speaker
1,247 appearances
30 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2022
last heard Jan 2025
Joe Pinsker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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One mechanic said anything involving an airbag, leave it to the pros.
That's probably a good blanket piece of advice that anything that really gets into the safety parts of the car, you'd probably want to be sure that somebody knows what they're doing.
It's a
All of a sudden that's adding $500 to the cost.
So you might look at a dent and think this doesn't look like a $2,000 dent, but here we are.
Those are the sorts of quotes that people are getting.
And an interesting note additionally is that this isn't just throwing off everyday consumers and drivers.
I talked to a repair shop owner for a previous story who was saying that he's been doing this for 25 years.
He'll ballpark in his head.
Here's how much I think this thing should cost.
And then when he sits down to actually write the estimate, just because of how much the price of labor and parts and all this technology I've been talking about has gone up, he sits down and it's twice as much or something as what he thought.
So this has caught everybody a bit off guard.
And that's why we see people reacting and trying to do it on their own sometimes.
Some of this is just knowing yourself and how comfortable you are with a wrench and a screwdriver.
But even for people who don't feel like they're that comfortable, there are a lot of good resources online that you can do.
And I was talking with one mechanic who really maintained that people can do anything
a lot more than they think they can and that there are some jobs that a dealership might charge you $500, $800, $1,000 that you could do with a part yourself that, you know, you can buy for $50 to $100.
So there are real savings and he thinks that people are capable of more than they think they are.
If you look at how incomes are actually distributed in the US, that is to say, how much money a bunch of different people make, it's actually the case that at the high end of income, income grows so much that it's large enough so that people are actually getting enough additional dollars to continue getting happier.
This is so important to economists and researchers because it's so important to us that the question of how much money do I need, how much money do I want, these are on a lot of people's minds.
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