I want to get into cars

I recently fixed some shit in my car and it made me want to learn more about it
Whats the best way to start learning about how to fix cars and getting into the culture?
I'm from /g/, and fixing computers is easy as shit
Once you learn them, are cars just as easy?
The next thing that needs to be fixed on my car is the brakes, and I've seen Veeky Forums say its easy (I don't know if this is a meme or not) but my gf insists I take it to a mechanic since brakes are really important, but I don't want to spend that much money

Eh, if you know nothing about cars don't try to do a brake job. I would say it's about the equivalent of getting a distro like debian running smoothly.

Anyways, yeah cars are probably easier than computer software, but harder than hardware. Start by doing simple shit like oil changes, and work your way up. Buy a weekend car that you can dick around with.

>Eh, if you know nothing about cars don't try to do a brake job.
>I would say it's about the equivalent of getting a distro like debian running smoothly.

I would agree with you if doing a brake job took hundreds of hours to learn from scratch. A car brake job can be learned in 2 hours through youtube and forum scouring.

Is an oil change easier than brakes?
With most things I'm mainly worried about having the proper tools

>Is an oil change easier than brakes?
Yes. A bolt and twisting off the filter (depending on design)

>With most things I'm mainly worried about having the proper tools
Proper research is all you need to do, which you seem motivated to do. Good presence of mind in that statement.

Cars are easy to understand and easy to fix as long as it's just basic wear items.
As long as your car has disk brakes all around and you own some decent wrenches and possibly a breaker bar brakes are easy as shit. I would recommend a torque wrench as well for the wheel lugs and a decent jackstand.
It's hard to mess up brakes if you have a semi functioning brain.
Also, you save a Crap ton on brakes by doing it yourself.
What car?

Really?
I'm in the exact same situation as OP and I was thinking of doing my brakes sometime in the next few weeks

From the sticky:

Want to learn how to fix a car yourself?

Buy the Hayne's or Chilton repair for your car!

Repair manuals will tell you how to do the job and what you need to get it done

Start with simple things like how to change the air filter or tires, or maybe changing your oil

If you are still interested, keep exploring!

Beyond that, Youtube is a great resource. For specific channels some other user will have to chime in cause I have a fucking dogshit internet connection and streaming video chews through a lot of data. Don't limit yourself though, other sources can have loads of good info. Niche forums and websites dedicated to specific cars or platforms or manufacturers or whatever can have absolute shittons of information.

Don't believe I know enough about computer shit to draw a good comparison. On a car with disc brakes, a brake job isn't too difficult. Just do your research until you're confident you can get it done. Also don't hulk out on the little bolts.

>What car
Honda Accord 96

> For specific channels some other user will have to chime in
My rule is "watch at least 3 videos" (provided they're available which with
>Honda Accord 96
is a given.
Why? You'll hear some thing stupid people say. There's many important lessons in the things stupid people say.

user is used to working on computers. You have to be interested in technology to work on computers. There are more stupid people that have to own a car than that have to own technology. Hence, cars are not that hard, there are just lots of stupid people.

This is from someone who only started caring about working on cars in the past 6 months. I've surfed /g/ since I was 15. That was 8 years ago,