Regardless of your abilities or knowledge about your vehicle, you can definitely take these on.

It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to you to hear that when it comes to car maintenance, there are two primary truths: that you need to keep it up to extend the efficiency and life of your vehicle, and that doing it yourself makes the experience much cheaper, overall.

The majority of the expense associated with most basic maintenance efforts by a mechanic is labor costs.

However, many of us balk at the thought of doing our own car maintenance and repairs because we don’t know anything about our vehicles and we don’t want to do something that will put ourselves or our cars in danger on the road. Still, while you may not be able to do major repairs at home, there are still some basic jobs that you can do without needing to know very much, spend a lot of time, or even get dirty, while saving a bundle off the cost of getting it done.

The following DIY car maintenance repairs are easy enough for ANYONE to do!

• Check your tire pressure – when you use a good quality, digital tire pressure gauge, you can check all of your tires on your car in under 2 minutes. By keeping your tires inflated according to the manufacturer’s recommendations, you’ll get measurably better fuel mileage, a far longer life on the tires, and you’ll ensure better safety and vehicle control on the road.
• Inflate your tires – if your tire pressure gauge tells you that your tires are a little low, you can use a pump that plugs into your power source (the cigarette lighter in older vehicles) or an air pump at a gas station to quickly inflate your tires.
• Check and change windshield wipers – Checking your windshield wipers is as easy as running your finger along the rubber blade to check for nicks and tears. Any little flaw can make a large difference to their effectiveness, which means that a small rip can determine whether or not you can see while in inclement weather. Changing new wipers takes about 5-10 minutes and is typically as easy as unhooking the old one and hooking the new one in. Most of the time is spent finding the right model at the auto supply store.
• Checking and replacing headlights – though there are a few models of vehicle that require that this car maintenance be performed by a mechanic, most vehicles make it surprisingly easy to change a headlight. Essentially, it’s just a matter of changing a light bulb and securing it so that it is aimed correctly.