Okay, so being that I now live in a place where the NEW manager of the Homeowner's Association is a total Nazi and completely forbids any residents from working on their vehicles in their own driveway at ANY time, I'm searching desperately for options of how to go about doing little things like oil changes and a not-so-little thing like swapping out my exhaust (yes, AGAIN).
So far, the only hair-brained solution that I've come up with is that I should somehow pack all of my necessary tools and stuff into my car and head down to a place like Autozone or Checker Auto and just go to it right there in the parking lot. I figure, being that I used to work there and I'm still "in" with the employees, they shouldn't have a fit about it. The only downsides to it are that if I wind up needing a tool that I've forgotten, I'm either stuck or I gotta run in the store and shell out bucks to buy a tool for a one-time use. That, or maybe city cops might drive by and give me crap about servicing a car in a public place or some nonsense (I'm sure there's some goofy laws like that on the books).
So ... anyone got any other ideas? Or anyone in the area got a flat paved driveway and an electrical outlet that I could borrow for a few hours one of these days? It sucks because ALL of my friends live in places with similar restrictions against working on cars - what, does EVERYONE down here expect people to take their car to a shop every single time they need something fixed or tweaked?
So far, the only hair-brained solution that I've come up with is that I should somehow pack all of my necessary tools and stuff into my car and head down to a place like Autozone or Checker Auto and just go to it right there in the parking lot. I figure, being that I used to work there and I'm still "in" with the employees, they shouldn't have a fit about it. The only downsides to it are that if I wind up needing a tool that I've forgotten, I'm either stuck or I gotta run in the store and shell out bucks to buy a tool for a one-time use. That, or maybe city cops might drive by and give me crap about servicing a car in a public place or some nonsense (I'm sure there's some goofy laws like that on the books).
So ... anyone got any other ideas? Or anyone in the area got a flat paved driveway and an electrical outlet that I could borrow for a few hours one of these days? It sucks because ALL of my friends live in places with similar restrictions against working on cars - what, does EVERYONE down here expect people to take their car to a shop every single time they need something fixed or tweaked?