[jwasbury]

This is a question of "opportunity cost." There are only so many hours in the day...

I am confident that I can tackle most any car maintenance task. I built the engine in my 930 from the crankshaft out (with the help of Wayne's book and this forum). I had it in my head that i was going to do 100% of the maintenance on my wife's DD, a 2006 Mini Cooper S. Oil changes, no problem. Then the clutch master developed some issues, easy peasy I figure. NOPE! Bleeding the clutch circuit on the Gen 1 cooper S is damn near impossible (known issue). I gave up after a couple of hours, called AAA and had it flat bedded to the shop. My time is valuable, I get paid well to be a bean counter so I can afford to pay someone else to deal with that stupid POS (it took the dealer something like 4 hours to bleed it).

Working on the Porsche as a hobby is one thing, and the old 911s were engineered to be taken apart and put together again. There is joy in that for me. Newer cars...not so much.