What automotive skills do you WISH that you had ?

[Budnicks]

I'm pretty good on most aspects...
I wish I had a bigger A/C'd shop, a lift, a pit & a booth...
Even some good help sometimes, not many Mopar people up here...
Make life far easier, I'm not getting any younger...
I wish I had my old huge 5 car garage & shop/64k sq ft. warehouse moved up here...

Always learning though, not too stubborn to admit it either...

What I don't know I'll learn & buy books or tools to do...
I've never been big on interior upholstery, done it a few times,
I think I'll leave it to the pros now...

Patience as someone else said
& a fat wallet/bank account would be nice...
Front end alignments & automotive machining {expensive tools/machines}
would be something I'd like to know more of, I have done the basics...

 

[Mike67]

Snakeyes hit it.... Unlimited purchasing ability! Or at least be able to send my motor to IQ!

 

[kb67mopar]

Interior work / transmission rebuilding and setting up differentials.

I'd love to be better at body work but I also don't have the motivation to do all that sanding...so I probably won't worry about that.

I'm pretty competent in most of what I need to work on my car but lack a lot of specialized tools...I can learn about anything between manuals and videos...but I can't afford the tools! (or the parts in the first place)

 

[dryheat]

I'd like to be better at finding a 1970 Hemi Cuda for $1.00

 

[Budnicks]

I'd like to be better at finding a 1970 Hemi Cuda for $1.00

Yep wouldn't we all like to be that ?

 

[ykf7b0]

Transmission rebuilding, more knowledge relating to electrical systems, and metal shaping.

 

[eldubb440]

unless you guys have hundreds, or thousands of hours to kill, you want no parts of body and paint....... trust me

heck, I been doin this crap over 30 years, and I am pretty damn quick. So what takes me hundreds, would take a novice thousands.

and you would never get your own car done, for obvious reasons

Mom was right.......rant over

 

[eldubb440]

I'd like to learn how to build an automatic, it's about the only thing I never messed with...... I don't ever remember being happy with any trans I had someone else build

 

[XMAN JR]

4spd tranys & recovering seats. Wish I could be as good at them as I am at body & paint. 4spds & seats are about the only things I cant do.

 

[ws23jrt]

Sheet metal working to achieve sculpted shapes. (shrinking, stretching, etc.).

I've done some of this with success but at a great expense of time with frustration.

 

[NJRR]

I'd like to be better at driving over 100mph !!!!

 

[Kern Dog]

Sheet metal working to achieve sculpted shapes. (shrinking, stretching, etc.).

I've done some of this with success but at a great expense of time with frustration.

You've had better luck than I have. I'm half tempted to take a Junior College course if they are available. I'd love to get better at welding sheet metal, panel fabrication and such.

 

[khryslerkid]

Wish I didn't know the first thing about working on them!

 

[Hemirunner]

Paint/body would be my least practiced skill set.

 

[metaldad]

i would like to do anything, except my carage is so full of ****, it takes a day to make enough room to work on her. (kinda reached critical mass)
i'm a industrial hvac mechanic, i know wiring, welding, soldering, brazing.
but not in the automotive sense.i know i could figure it out, but, that takes time, something it seems i have precious little of.

 

[cudak888]

Wish I wasn't such a slob at MIG welding. When put to the test (or a body panel I really want to be careful with), I can pull off a beautiful weld.

But show me a meh car with a rusty floorpan and I'll booger-weld the thing in without a moment's hesitation. Ditto with my home-made exhausts - a blind 3-legged dog could do better.

-Kurt

 

[Darius]

Programming the damn computers!!!!

 

[ZR9B]

body/paint

 

[MrJLR]

Electrical.....

 

[BIGSHCLUNK]

BIGS- jack of all trades -master of none! Geeez motor & tranny building, better welding skills, rear end set-up, electrical diagnostic. As for body work, I cant breathe all that **** so I leave it to someone else