Melvin Warner credits a recently opened, do-it-yourself auto repair garage club for getting his mojo back. “When my wife and I moved here from Covington, Ga., we settled in Oak Run,” said Warner, 67, ...

While living in England, Stuart Cunningham developed a love for cars and decided he wanted to make a career working with them. A friend in England had gotten him into working on his own cars, and ...

In an undated image provided by Steve Friess, Dayna Freeland does mechanical work for a car at at My Mechanics Place in Livonia, Mich. Freeland took her truck to My Mechanics Place, one of a couple ...

With the clack-clack-clack of an impact wrench, T.J. Schouten tightened the last bolt on a new steel edge for his pickup's snowplow. "I like to do a lot of the work myself, if I can," the 28-year-old ...

A North Texas auto repair shop is putting drivers behind the wheel of their repairs. MyBay Automotive in Denton rents its repair bays and tools to car owners who wish to be their own mechanics. "Your ...

A new shop in Southern California may represent a trend: DIY auto repair shops where you pay a fee, they jack your car up on a lift, and you do the work. Such places used to be common, then they went ...

Auto body repair can be tough work, so answer these questions before reading on. Do you: Want to save a few hundred dollars? Enjoy working with your hands? Have the patience and dedication to learn a ...

Whether to try to save some money, or to avoid taking the car into the shop, or from a need to instill some sense of self reliance, car owners will often try to take on a repair they really shouldn’t ...

LIVONIA, Mich. — A few months after Dayna Freeland bought her 2008 Ford F-150 last year, she discovered the frame was so badly rusted that it was in danger of breaking apart. Rather than storm into ...