You win.

 

+1

 

Theres nothing like working on your own car (and it actually helping) you get that great sense of self accomplishment AND you save $$$$

 

thanks for being an ***....this is the first car ive wanted to work on myself (previous being a subaru wagon a ford explorer) so soooooorrry that I am proud of myself....its not like I am 30 I am 21 no need to be a ****.

It is cool bc it does give me a sense of pride and saved me bundles of $$$. Next I am going to do my spark plugs and fuel filter (heard someone saying that oil change, plugs, air + fuel filter was gonna cost them 400 bucks at a dealer...). I am glad to finally (begin to..) join the ranks. Its nice to know what everyone is talking about

 

Here's a little helpful information on spark plugs https://www.audiforums.com/m_329420/tm.htm make sure that you get the right ones and GAP them even if they are supposedly 'pre-gapped'.

Yeah you should save all kinds of money doing it yourself and most of it doesn't take very long. I think you could do all that for under $75. Might also wanna try a seafoam while you're at it

 

Yup seafoam tomorrow I think im just gonna do the gas tank though bc I am scared of seals being broken and the bullshit stuff etc preventing leaks, I don't think Im ready to deal with any problems and certainly cant afford to get it done professionally. Question about the plugs though, I have a 2.8 12v, do they still need to be gapped? I know for the 1.8 they do....

I also need to do a coolant flush as I just found out today it has green bullshit coolant in, which I guess is from 2 owners ago as the PO just used G11 (dark blue) Pentosin, which is what I used, but when I switched my expansion tank it had all changed to green (I know the coolant takes on the properties of the lowest quality coolant). Should I be using G12 in the 12v or is G11 fine for it since its an older engine?

 

Its not even all about money saving for me, I just dont trust mechanics, most of them are not even that great with cars and they do everything halfass just to get their money.

 

I would still make sure to gap them it takes about 15 sec to do and your car will thank you for it. I have no idea about the coolant though

 

here's a coolant change guide http://audizine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=73219 If you haven't used it yet it's worth checking out www.audidiy.com it has all kinds of mods/maintenance diy write ups

 

I love Audidiy.com, read over the guides before I did everything. I lurked on this forum for about a month or so just learning before posting anything at all, the forum is such a great resource, I like it a lot better than audiworld or audizine.

+1 to not trusting mechanics, I used to take my explorer to a local guy and he would "find" all sorts of things wrong, ie saying my serpentine belt was about to go (a few hundred bucks) and quoting me 400 bucks for a tune up for a f-ing explorer (ridiculous!).

I really appreciate all the help guys, Im gonna detail my car in a few days and post up some pics of my baby and set up a sig, now that Im really proud of her