When working on a car...

[ccb_v2]

... do you wear any kind of gloves or use your bare hands?

I used to just use my bare hands... then tried latex loves to keep the grease and oil off, but they rip too easy... finally got a pair of Mechanix gloves and they work great...

[DuffMan]

Bare hands, makes you look like more manly.

[S. Thompson]

Bare hands... why would I wear gloves if I wasn't working with hazardous materials?

- Fuzmeister

[Code-Red]

Bare hands....I don't like the loss of dexterity when wearing gloves.

[Covar]

Bare Hands. never even thought to wear gloves.

[that_guy]

Hands. I will actually be doing my plugs and wires and putting in a FWI on my 04 GP GT tomorrow.

[mrandyk]

It doesnt make a lot of sense to use gloves.

[|darc|]

I only use gloves if there's a danger to my hands. Otherwise you lost a lot of dexterity because you're too lazy to wash your hands later.

[AgentGreen]

Bare hands. I don't do much of my own car maintenance, just various fluid changes for the most part so I can't see the need to get gloves.

[I.M. Weasel]

If i can get the right tool to the right nut/bolt ,then i wear gloves. end up using about 2 pairs a fix(because they rip). If Im having trouble getting to what i need to fix, ill use bare hands. (see: asian cars that require double jointed fingers to reach half of the parts.)

[MulletMan13]

I never understood this whole "working on a car" thing. I knew a bunch of people in high school (Fast the the Furious-lovers) that would always brag about how they work on their car all the time... when I can't help but think that everything mechanically has either become too easy (bolt on turbos for example) or too difficult to mess around with (messing with computers and carefully programmed electrical timings) that I don't understand what people mean anymore.

Cars are becoming so reliable that you hardly ever need to replace parts yourself-- and when you do, the damn engineers made the parts so difficult to get to that going to a mechanic is almost always a necessity.

So whenever I hear people with newer cars talking about working on their cars, I just imagine them under the car with a mat on the ground loosening and tightening bolts. Now if you had a car from the 1960s or before, I can completely accept what you're saying, but modern cars.... ?

[AgentGreen]

Well there ARE people who've grown up around mechanical tinkering their whole lives and they know about a lot of stuff. But there are also people who think changing a fan belt or a muffler or the oil or something makes them a mechanic.

[Jeeba Jabba]

Too awkward wearing gloves.

[Code-Red]

I never understood this whole "working on a car" thing. I knew a bunch of people in high school (Fast the the Furious-lovers) that would always brag about how they work on their car all the time... when I can't help but think that everything mechanically has either become too easy (bolt on turbos for example) or too difficult to mess around with (messing with computers and carefully programmed electrical timings) that I don't understand what people mean anymore.

Like I told Wagh not too long ago, if you ever happen upon a 1989-1996 Nissan 300ZX with it's hood open, take a look inside. The V6 that resides in it is so unbelievably stuffed that most owners refuse to work on the cars themselves. Here's a pic:



On the other hand, here is a '67 Camaro SS with a 350 V8 (possibly the original engine, minus valve covers and air filter):



I'd rather work on an older car any day of the week. By the way, not meaning to be a smart ass or anything, but turbochargers are hardly "easy" bolt-ons. There is a lot of planning, knowledge, money, and (especially) parts needed in order to have a properly turbocharged car.