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  • colino
    colino Posts: 5,059 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    I realise a lot of you from time to time roll around in your driveways, using the tools at your disposal and the effort adds credence to suspension and brake work being arduous tasks. Take a look at the guy that works in KF. Mistake him for a rocket scientist or cardiac surgeon on a working holiday? No, because with fairly minor training, a car on a four-poster with decent tools, including splitters if the hammer doesn't work first time and oxy-acetylene if a fork splitter and a hammer don't work the second time, makes this bread and butter stuff relatively easy. I have no idea why, on a moneysaving website, the ill informed try to justify big labour costs for minor tasks.
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