crxaddikt

i was trying to brainstorm places i can go out in public to work on my car freely with no problems and nobody distracting me, and not any nosey people staring at me wondering what i'm doing and stuff...

its been 100 degrees here in dallas, seems better to work on stuff in the evening or just late at night, but unfortunately i don't have a garage to work on it in, i live in an apartment thats built into a 2 story house and two units are below me, i park along the curb on the side of the house.

so its like i don't have somewhere to work on my car, like to get tools out and open the doors and get into it, theres a carport here for 2 cars but the other 2 units are assigned to them since they both are on the bottom and have gates that go out to it.

my parents used to live here and i just used to go there and work in the garage, and i had couple friends with garages i was able to use but they moved,

i can use the carport to work on my car if its empty, but usually its occuppied in daytime and at night when it usually has one space empty i could mess with car but everything makes so much noise and feel like i'm bothering the neighbors and this dog keeps barking at every little sound i make, plus the vehicle usually filling one side of the carport is a Denali SUV, and it makes where my car is so close to his, so don't have much room to do stuff and have to worry about scratching his vehicle etc...


i was thinking maybe a car wash, the ones with the seperate stalls, but only if its not the busy time of the day where people are waiting to use one of them, or a parking garage, like i am a member of 24 hour fitness, and it has a parking garage at the building its in and has a couple levels and no security patrolling, or if they have really really cheap storage units (like $20 a month), then that would be cool to go there and put car in and use to work on it, or i wonder if theres a type of place thats like a storage unit, but without the monthly continous contract thing, just like where you can pay a one time fee to use it, paying per day ??, so pay like $10 or $15 for one whole day and its the size of a single car garage about that you can pull into and has light and a door to close or leave open.

or i was just thinking to find like an open field or dirt road that goes into a foresty area where you can park on dirt ground but under shady trees and not around people or anything so nobody could say anything or kick me out.


sorry i ranted on so long, i know it sounds pretty stupid to some, but i was just thinking of some ideas, if you have any ideas on places then let me know

jnb0111

I'm not familiar with Dallas, but I think that the storage unit sounds like the best bet. Garage sized ones are going to run you more than $20 a month, though. it'd be a place you could keep your tools, though, which might be good, depending on how many you have.
Another option would be to just check on craigslist. A lot of times, I've seen where people will rent out garages, either at their house or shop. That could be something to check on, too.

JamesB1985

Find a big *** parking lot behind a building or to the next to it where nobody ever parks way in the back of the lot. Nobody will bother ya. Just keep a rack of tools in your truck, maybe lug some extra's in the back seat when ya got a big job y'know?
That's what I do. Works great. dont wanna get all that oil an coolant an brake fluid all over the driveway, so I do it in a big *** parking lot, just gotta find the right one bro. Good luck.

crxaddikt

thats some good ones, i'll keep those in mind,


by the way, i did work on my car a little last night, it was 100 degrees all day and so i finally felt like doing some work to my car when it was probably 12am, cause it cooled down more.

i just went to this carwash (the kind with rows of seperate stalls), and it was one in decent area and right next to service road & highway, and a couple stoplights, so your not just in the middle of nowhere.

i did'nt park in the stall cause in there i felt like i could'nt see around me 360 degrees, cause i wanted to always keep in eye out all around me just in case someone was trying to sneak up on me or something.

so i parked just in front of the stall, under bright lights and more exposed so i can see all around the car wash.

it was a little weird, cause i was just taking door panels off, and trying to get that stupid clip out to pull the window crank out, and i was concentrating and looking at the door panel with light and stuff, but couple times a car just pulled up and kind of stopped near me and was looking at me, but they did'nt use car wash, and just drove around it or something, so i just felt like i had to keep stopping and looking behind me and around to see where they disappeared to and stuff, so kind of distracting to me.

but its a perfect place to just do some medium work, (nothing that disables the car from running), but would be better just to do in daytime so i woul'dnt have to be keeping an eye out as much.