Uploaded February 2021 | Updated September 2026, 29 minutes ago

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Doing repairs for your friends or family can be tricky. Sometimes it can work out and you’re the hero. Other times, you find yourself ducking family functions to avoid that certain someone who’s car you worked on last week.

In this video I talk about some of my own experiences working on friends and family vehicles and then turn the question back to you, “how do you feel about working on friends and family vehicles?”

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