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I would rather fix it myself because I want to learn what is involved. If you get a check engine light come on, you can buy a Foxwell Scan Tool on Amazon for as little as $50 on sale but more like $59 . Its simple to plug it in to the cars computer connector and simpler still to have the scan tool give you the trouble code. That’s the starting point. Its easy to look up online what the trouble code means. If you are lost write down the code and go to Advance Auto, Auto Zone and ask them what is the likely problem. A garage will charge you like $100 to $125 an hour and you could buy two scan tools for that price. As long as have a car or suv or pickup the scan tool will serve you well. Since 1996 the connector has been standardized on all makes of the US Japanese, German etc. The scan tool can be updated for free as well online. There are more expensive scan tools but no one needs a high cost one. The next purchase you need to make is a repair manual from Amazon for the year and make of your car.Costs about $20 -28 by the name Haynes Repair Manual. It will show you exactly what is involved in any repair on your vehicle. It is about one fourth to one fifth the cost on one hour of labor at a garage. You need only start to begin collecting the tools you will need to do some of the simpler tasks on todays cars. You can never lend out auto tools since whosoever you lend them to will lose some of them. You can also not show them off to anyone as they will steal from you. To save money buy Craftsman Auto tools from Lowe’s (now carry a full line of Craftsman tools-which if it is a Craftsman HAND tool has a lifetime guarantee. rachets, sockets, wrenches, screwdrivers, but NOT power tools by Craftsman. Buy Craftsman oil filter wrench, get an oil drain pan from Home Depot in the aisle where they stock automotive needs (they sell a black rectangular large oil drain pan). You cannot or need not buy tool truck (snap on) the prices prohibit that. Harbor freight tools are okay and also have a lifetime guarantee.If you buy a rachet there always choose one that says its made in Taiwan NOT china. Any tool made in Taiwan is a notch above any made in China. All Stanley tools rachets are defective. “I know I had one”. Buy a large plastic Craftsman tool box as well. Keep your Haynes Auto Repair Manual in a Zip-Lock bag to keep it clean and dry and in good condition. Or get a zippered Binder to keep it in and use 3 ring paper to record any work you do and save all the receipts for parts you buy for your car and record the number of routine maintenance parts like oil filters, air filter, cabin filter, spark plug type (sticker under the hood tells this), Spark plug wires (do not buy the cheapest).Where ever you get tires like WalMart keep the paperwork in a zippered 3 ring binder. When you bought them, what you paid, and mileage on your vehicle. Avoid Tire Stores where that’s their only sale item. They will have the highest price. Wal Mart among the lowest price. Even if you do not decide to do a lot of work on your car the manual will teach you a lot about your car. If the scan tool “sets” a trouble code and an auto parts store sells you the part and it does not solve the problem , you have not spent very much. Some trouble codes “set” not for them being the problem (often it is like oxygen sensors ) but because the sensor is “setting” a code because the problem is related to it. Never work on a hot engine and if changing oil wear gloves and old clothes. Mechanics black nitrile gloves can often be tossed or reused if washed out with liquid soap and stored.Check oil level by yourself since there are no people to check your oil anymore. Same for transmission oil. Checking Transmission oil often requires the engine to be running and gear selector in Park with parking brake on. Replacing brake pads are somewhat more advanced but you may need some ones help with that task. The jack that comes with a car is valueless and is dangerous to use. Even for a flat tire. I suggest you buy a Floor jack which is part aluminum from Harbor Freight when it is on sale for $59,95 plus tax. It is often sold for $59.95 and it is far safer than trying to use the cheap jack that cars come with. This floor jack can be carried by one hand as its very light. The floor jack does need to be removed from the box and make sure it functions. Then it can stay in the box and store in trunk until you need it. If changing a tire or with any use of a floor jack you also need two “chock blocks”. Best ones are rubber, cheaper ones are plastic, but even a few scrap pieces of 2x4 lumber will work to keep a car from moving if a wheel is raised up in the air.For a flat repair one only needs to raise the wheel off the ground by one inch. Just enough to roll a spare tire onto the wheel lugs. Read about how to change a tire. The lug nuts need to be loosened “BEFORE” using a floor jack. Its impossible to try to loosen lug nuts once you have raised a wheel off the ground and also very dangerous. Harbor Freight has a selection of chock blocks that need to be put on the opposite diagonal wheel from the wheel that you are raising by a floor jack. NEVER get underneath a car that is raised in the air by a jack. If something rolls underneath then use a long handle like a broom handle to retrieve it. One does not need to raise a car up with a jack in order to change oil and oil filter. Remember to have the right size wrench to unfasten the oil drain plug and have a drain pan ready to catch the oil which will be hot and rapidly flow into the pan. Then using an oil filter wrench or a “CAP” which is made of aluminum or steel unscrew the oil filter. As it unscrews hot oil will begin to leak out which is why you need gloves to protect you from the hot oil and old clothes. Harbor Freight sells a “DOG-BONE” wrench in Fractional sizes and also in Metric sizes (millimeter) each end of the Dog-Bone has four different sizes (total of eight}. An Auto Parts Store can tell you what size oil drain plug your car has 3/4 inch, 17mm. 19mm, if its in inches buy the Dog-Bone which says SAE , if in mm buy the Metric Dog-Bone. If changing a tire or later working on brakes after you remove a wheel put that wheel under the side of the car next to where you took the wheel off. The reason for this is that if the floor jack ever slipped the car would not fall completely to the ground. The wheel would prevent that. If you ever decide you want to work on changing brake pads and/or brake shoes you will need a pair of Jack Stands. A pair of all aluminum ones which are light weight may cost $50 plus but you only buy them once. When working on brakes you need three methods of holding a car up. One is the floor jack, Two are the jack stands (under a subframe steel part) and then a wheel with a tire on it under the side of the car. So you have three ways to keep a car if one of them fails.Seek out someone who is familiar with working on cars. Ask them questions , learn where the parts of the car are, learn what to do is a radiator hose breaks, a heater hose breaks, a “bypass” hose breaks, where is the thermostat located on the engine and where to buy a replacement thermostat and thermostat gasket. You would need some new single edge razor blades to scrape off the old gasket material. You may also need a single edge razor blade to gently slice through a burst heater hose and radiator hose. Learn the sizees of heater hose and sizes of radiator hoses on your vehicle. Keep a COMPOSITION TYPE NOTEBOOK in your three ring binder to know at a glance the sizes and part numbers for anything on your car. Beware of being “UPSOLD” on oil changes if you do not do it yourself. You can buy your own brand name full synthetic oil from walmart for $26 for a 5 quart jug (VALVOLINE Full Synthetic 5w-30 , 10w-30) and I suggest a Purolator Pure One or A Mobil One Oil filter from amazons website. The best motor oil for a car suv or pickup is AMSOIL which is sold through the mail. If you buy two oil changes and two oil filters (AMSOIL also sells oil filters), a year it should cost about $100 per year maybe slightly more but you cannot find a better oil. Hope this gives you a few ideas.