How do I teach myself to fix cars from scratch?
If you have the space to get an old banger and with enough room for you to play with it, dismantling it, finding the bits and what they are, or i would buy a cheap run around that is an easy fix as such an Escort mk3, after helping out my brother on his old wrecks, i brought myself one drove it around ( all legal) then the cam-belt went, i thought it was the distributer so tried that ( trial and error) then some one said it may be the cam belt so i got one had a sneaky peak at a haynes manual in a shop and lined up all the pulleys ( the t.d.c = top dead centre marks) tightened it up connected jump leads to the battery and low and behold it started, unfortunately i had to sell as my other car needed bits doing to it and i needed the garage to park it in , but if you can get one of these or an old fiesta do so the parts are easily found in the breakers, and spares shops. I am now doing most of my repairs, brakes, oil changes, plugs, bearings, etc. Good luck and have fun.
