With all due respect, doing your own maintenance is far less time consuming than taking your car to a dealer to have work done that anyone with average intelligence and physical attributes could do themselves. I never had the time to sit around waiting for the cashier at a dealership to get my bill ready much less for the mechanics to do the work between coffee breaks.

IMHO, people who think that it's difficult or time consuming are looking for reasons not to do it when it fact it makes good sense. It takes little time, you save a bundle of money you could spend on things to improve the quality of your life, you do a better job of it and you get the satisfaction of accomplishing something.

BTW, when I wasn't working 80 hour work weeks developing software, I (like Larry) also traveled extensively throughout North American and Western Europe. I used the money I saved on car maintenance to buy Leica cameras and binoculars to enhance my travel experiences.