Working on your car
 

I have recently read some posts about the issue of working on you car in your garage. Some said there was a restriction. Others said they do it all the time. Some, like me, have an antique they maintain and drive. Can someone enlighten me on any restrictions.:coolsmiley:

No restrictions that I know of ! Yes I know, the sentence is ending with a preposition !

mg man i have a 1993 honda del sol in mint condition and i wash it whenever i want and wax it in my garage whenever i want. Then i take it for a ride around the villages and everyone looks at it. So i dont think you will have any problem.

Hi MGman:

It is my understanding that you can only do light repairs and wash you car on the driveway. In your garage is your own business

Look at your sales slip
 

Best way to know is look at the sales slip you have for your house. If your name is on that slip then the house and the attached garage are probably yours. So, if it IS your house what the *%LL do you care what the neighbors say?

Remember the old song Behind Closed Doors

Working on cars
 

I have a similar problem except I like to build cars (street rods) We hope to move to The Villages in 2010 depending when our house in Wisconsin sells. On our previous visits I can understand making noise and disrupting the neighborhods with loud noises would be a problem inside and outside of a house. My plan, hopefully, is to finish all the noisy jobs on the car before we move, ie; hammering out dents, cutting metal, throwing tools etc. With that being said, I agree with what has been stated in that you should be able to do in your garage what you want as long as the noise is at a minimum.
Yes, I'm 64 years old and still play with cars.

One evening last December during one of the first nights of my stay at about 7:00 pm I hear this sweet sounding rumble that made me jump off the couch and head for the window. By the time I got there it was gone. A few days later I asked a neighbor about that lovely sound and she said that was her husbands street rod. Sweet turquoise all steel truck, tubbed with a nicely cammed SBC and of course great sounding exhaust. Bob has a shop in Fruitland Park where he does work on street rods and welding. Check my picture albums of the December 2008 and July 2009 cruise-in.

Isn't this supposed to be Florida's "Friendlist" Home Town? And I am confused when you then say,

Isn't part of being a gentleman, caring what your neighbors think?

Do you make house calls for muffler work?
Or shall we drive it over?
Even a cutoff saw and a little banging during the day is no noisier than the mowers, chainsaws, and weedwackers we hear all the time, not to mention the rowdies at havana.
I'm sure coolant, motor oil, and trans fluid running into the streets would not fly, though.Of course in 'the day' we used the storm drains as grease pits. Tsk tsk.
LandL

Mikies,
We've got some space just outside our compound known as TV, where maturing teenage tinkerers can make a little noise, fire up an arc welder, throw tools, and even let a few expletives go when something doesn't line up right or you skin a knuckle.
Once we start spending more time down yonder and move some of the iron down, we're happy to swap for a little knowledge and supervision.
LandL

The gentlemen who devised our constitution, also decided that a man's home is his castle.

But also included in those documents is a provision that states TV is a deed restricted community and you agree to abide by those restrictions.

Each village has restrictions that vary, I think they have been fine-tuned as TV progressed. (Realtor signs are a good example, in the older sections you can have a "For Sale" sign in your front yard, in the newer areas all you can have is a sign in your window.)

Where I live the restriction on working on your automobile reads (in part) as follows:

"No Owner of a Homesite shall repair or restore any motor vehicle, boat, trailer, aircraft, or other vehicle on any portion of the Homesite, or on dedicated or reserved areas, except for emergency repairs, and then only to the extent necessary to enable movement to a proper repair facility."

Well, it is his castle subject to the restrictions that he agreed to (in writing no less). You will note that the Village Watch is real good in enforcing them.

But, of course, that is not my point at all. I think that the attitude, "to heck with my neighbors" stinks, especially in the Villages. Just my opinion.