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I began buying Car Mechanics magazine in the early 90s. I started buying it because at the time I was frustrated at my inability to deal with the problems that a series of bad buys threw up and which were poorly or non addressed by the garages I bought them from; often forcing me to pay main dealers to do the work. My subscription carried on for about ten years, but reading the magazine was only ever a voyeuristic habit, given that I didn't have a garage or any indoor space where I could practice the techniques being featured and discussed; nor was it usually possible, or safe to work on my car on the highway.
Generally speaking modern cars are far too complicated for Joe Public to work on, except maybe simpler stuff like brakes.That might be another reason why magazines that tell you how to work on your car are becoming less popular, their readership becoming restricted to those who have the time, determination, facilities and in some cases maybe, instinctive meanness to keep their old cars on the road.
The sort of glossy car magazines that focus on comparing models, blather on about how many more BHP this car has than that one, and feature photographs of said cars hurtling along alpine roads, piloted by smirking pinups who probably wouldn't know a disc from a drum, hold no interest for me.
Which is why I like this site. Real, practical, hands on advice about actual bits of metal that I might even one day be able to get my mitts on.
Edited by argybargy on 16/10/2017 at 19:49
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