As Car-Repair Costs Rise, More Drivers Are Taking the DIY Route
WSJ Your Money Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 3 December 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:18.1 | Here's your money briefing for Tuesday, December 3rd. |
| 0:21.6 | I'm J.R. Waylon for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:25.8 | The cost of car maintenance and repairs has risen 28% over the past three years, according to the Labor Department. |
| 0:33.1 | That's caused more drivers to pump the brakes and try to make the fixes themselves. |
| 0:37.3 | 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. |
| 0:50.0 | So there are real savings and people are capable of more than they think they are. |
| 0:54.2 | We'll talk to Wall Street Journal, personal finance reporter Joe Pinsker. |
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| 1:50.4 | More car owners are taking the DIY approach to making repairs to reduce costs. |
| 1:53.0 | But what kinds of work should be left to the professionals? |
| 1:56.7 | Wall Street Journal, personal finance reporter Joe Pinsker, joins me. |
| 2:00.3 | Joe, what kinds of car fixes are people trying to do themselves? |
| 2:07.6 | Some people are looking at the kind of classic DIY things like changing your own oil, |
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