[dave 911]

...for repairs that I could probably do myself...but I called 'uncle' this week and did it. My son and I have been troubleshooting his 2000 Civic - CEL (misfires) and overheating. We fixed the misfire issue with new plugs, wires, and spark plug tube seals (one of the tubes was completely filled with oil...), and troubleshot the overheating to a probable bad head gasket. Work that we could most likley do - it looks fairly straightforward but time consuming.

But with Thanksgiving holidays, an unheated 2 car garage that houses 2 nice cars (one of them the 911) that I don't want sitting outside for an extended period, a full time job, tired as hell of staying up to late working on it this last week, juggling the family DD's every day, etc...I threw in the towel and took it to a shop. My diagnosis is correct, and it makes sense to do some more 'while we're in there' work - timing belt, water pump, etc....

So it'll be done by someone who has done it multiple times, and much quicker than we could have done it.

But man, it burns me to shell out all that $...! How many have been there done that?