Do you think MacGyver would take appliances in to be repaired or would he be more inclined to jump in and try fixing them himself?

Maybe it would depend on the appliance? such as a toaster or alarm clock he'd repair himself, as we saw him doing for Pete in Children of Light, but things like Television he might not be so keen on doing himself.

What does everyone else think?

I think for small appliances he would try to fix by himself, he would also use alternatives if he couldn't find the suitable parts for fixing. But for big machines such as cars he would leave them to the hands of the professional, just like what he did to Harry's car.

I think Mac would try to do most things himself. Television or radio however... I really don't know. Mac doesn't like a man who watches a lot of television. Maybe the news and a couple of westerns.

'Good old MacGyver, can fix anything.'

But what can you say, if the man doesn't feel like doing so. He just might drive up to the store and asks for it to be fixed asap.

I think that Mac would take a shot at fixing anything. Once he exhausted all his know-how and still couldn't fix it, then he would leave it to the professionals.

I think he would fix all of his appliances until he couldn't figure it out any more.

I think Mac would make the choice to fix it himself or pay to have it fixed based on the time he had available. That's certainly how I work; if I have enough time, I do all the car work myself. If I do not have enough time, or need the job done quickly, I have no qualms about asking someone else to do it.

Ari

Being a car guy myself, I take notice in episodes where he is dealing with them. Pumping power steering fluid into the brake master cylinder resivoir in The Enemy Within really would not have worked, but let's say it did , then the eggs in the radiator in Bushmaster, the pen spring in Hellfire, making his own spark plug electrode fom a nail in Ceasefire, robbing the distrbutor cap in the Endangered, etc. etc. all say he knew cars up and down. I'd say he most certainly had the knowhow to fix his own car, but as Dinoman pointed out he left Harry's car for a shop, which seems strange to me for this reason: Mac's car knowledge from his younger years would have put that car more in his realm of expertise than a newer one. Anyway, he certainlycould have at least done the routine maintenance on his car. As with all car guys though, if he had the money and a shop he felt he could trust, he might pass on getting dirty and leave it to someone else.

Now, I know the real question was about appliances, but I'll try to tie that in by saying I think appliances are sorta the same way. The stuff he grew up being able to repair, serviceable stuff, was being phased out in the 80's with circuit boards and sealed motors. He probably just bought high quality appliances and when they broke, he replaced them unless it was a simple fix. I definitely wouldn't hesitate to buy a new digital alarm clock if mine quit, it's not like I'm an electrical engineer who knows what I am looking at when I see a circuit board.

I guess what I am getting at is that Mac was a jack of all trades and master of only a few. He would tinker with things and get lucky most of the time, but if it was something out of his scope he had no problem deferring to someone else who was an expert.

On a side note, my how the times have changed when our grandparents bought an appliance, they'd keep it as long as they could and if it broke, they had the now almost non-existent appliance repair shop that would breathe life into it and get another 5 years out of a toaster. Now, the economics of it are that the mass produced cheap chinese/far eastern goods are cheaper than a repair bill would be. And Mac was sandwiched right in there growing up through both eras.

Wasn't the nomad a restoration job? meaning panel,paint,interior. That would all take a lot more time and careful work than a standard mechanical repair. But even if it wasn't a restore job, MacGyver probably decided that because the car was a classic, he'd rather get it repaired properly and to specification than pull a MacGyverism on it. lol

MacGyverisms are mostly quick-fix, and as for Harry's car it needs more than that. I think Mac does not has that much time (his Phoenix assignments require frequent travels) and space (he did't has a garage when he was living on the houseboat, and the only garage he had when he was living in the Loft was small and packed with stuffs) for this kind of job.

Mac was working on the Nomad in Harry's Will (probably the restoration job) but brought his car to the garage in Bitter Harvest and The Visitor, to get it fixed. Both times the electrical system getting shot?

Ha, sorry to repeat stuff you had already said Rocky, I just now read your thread about repair or replace and checked the date/time and realized it probably sounded mildly plagiarized I guess that only validates the position since it's such a widely recognized trend...