Who taught you?

[Rice86]

just have to be machanically minded and give it a go...never to late to try, start on something small, something that if u screw it up you wont care much about...and yes the right tools will always keep you in the game

[tricky_dan]

haha i read somewhere a guy was gonna go around australia so he bought an old landcruiser or landrover or something, took every single bolt apart and the whole engine apart (maybe) in his back yard, put it all back together again and drove around aust! would have known how everything fitted together pretty darn well! so i think thats quite a good principle to work off.. not necessarily taking apart the whole car haha but if ur working on a certain bit fiddle around with it and see how u go.

i learnt from my dad a fair bit, most of my friends whos dads/relatives arent into cars find it a fair bit harder to get the head knowledge of cars and be motivated to work on them a lot, still i think cars are absoltuely 'learnable'! get one of those car manuals, search and read LOTS of forums, but like ke70dave said there can be some dodgy stuff on them, generally i think its usually pretty good, but its prob good to double check the info with ur manual as a bible as such lol..

[greeneyes]

..and you can d'load and print the entire Toyota workshop manual for the AE86, which I did for my KE70.. all 350 pages odd!

I bought a burnt-out 1949 Armstrong Siddeley when I was 15 and rebuilt it, all by trial and error and asking. My dad was not knowledeable about cars, but I taught him a lot!

From there motorsport taught me everything, building rally cars and wrecking them. I used to work in a laboratory, so I've had no formal automotive training, but there is little I can't do on a 1970s-1980s car now.

Just jump in and try stuff!

[Vance]

here here!

have a crack. you get better at stuff and learn from your own mistakes. just be patient and youll make less

[richo]

i also jumped into the deep end. hadnt done any major work to a car other than oils, filters..... went out and bought the 86. killed the gearbox and engine within a week and then took the engine out bolt by bolt. ive done over most of the car, with help from the net and the occasional phone call.

[Turkish-86]

Its all just nuts and bolts!!!

Honestly nothing better than giving it a crack yourself.

[shift_rook]

i learnt form mainly doing shit myself, also doing auto at school that's taught me about engines, also do part time work at a workshop, my dad and older brother are also quite mechanically minded

[blair]

its all trial and error at my place.

[drift kid]

my dad

[marvis]

My fuck-ups and/or friends.

(That's not implying my friends are fuck-ups)