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About the Author
Ted. Car Guy.
I'm Ted. I've kept cars running my whole life, and somewhere along the way I started noticing what everybody notices sooner or later. The bills. A $110 oil change. A $340 brake job. An insurance renewal at $1,900 that creeps up another $150 every year for no reason anybody can explain to you. A $180 detail. And I'd think about the men I learned from, my dad and my uncle mostly, and they never paid for any of that. Not once. They changed their own oil on Saturday morning, walked around the car once a month, washed it with two buckets in the driveway, and made one phone call a year about the insurance. Their cars ran forever. Their wallets stayed shut.
So I went back to doing it the simple way, and then I started filming it, mostly because people kept asking. The driveway oil change. The monthly walk-around. The brake job. The two-bucket wash. The insurance script. The ledger. Thousands of drivers have used those videos to cut the shop bill, catch the $12 hose before it turned into the $900 tow, and quit paying counter markup on things that take five minutes.
This First Edition is the channel, organized. Twenty-five systems across six parts, in the order you should do them, with the tools and the dollar amounts written down so you don't have to pause the video. Seventy-six pages. Illustrated all the way through. Read it once, work through the systems at your own pace, and keep the savings every year you own a car.
This isn't about cutting corners on your car. It's about cutting out the shop's markup on simple work, and keeping more of what you earn.
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