DIY or DIFM - When Do It Yourself May Not Be An Option, How Do You Modify Your Vehicle?

I get asked pretty often about how to deal with determining when to "Do It Yourself" or when to resort to "Do It For Me," so I am covering how to evaluate your situation and what to do to make sure you don't waste your valuable time and money.
For whatever reasons you may have, sometimes you need to call in a professional to do a modification or installation on your build. Sometimes it's because of the required tools, other times it's about the skill set or technical nature of the install. It can even be as simple as just not having the available time or the facilities to do the work, but what we want to try avoid is just misjudging what's involved and putting yourself in a pickle.
It doesn't matter just how much experience you have, there are so many variables in trying to figure out the best path for your build and no matter how much we want to do it all, we all need some HELP sometimes and enlisting the right professionals can make a huge difference.
Adventure Off-Road
Huntington Beach, CA
adventureoffroad.com/
0:00 Intro / DIY or DIFM
2:42 Adventure Off-Road
3:04 Authorized Dealers - AEV part and up-fitting
7:24 Wrap up / best practices for DIFM

[@Downtimelost]

Another zr2 ….. it’s a sign I’m
Tell ya 😉

[@Turfcolorado]

If you didnt go with a Camburg upper control arm...what would you go with?

[@exhaustinglife]

My only other choice was at the time the GMPP UCA.
The whole reason I went to Camburg to encourage them to develop this part was because I didn't want anything else that was available in the market at the time.
I wanted an adjustable upper to compensate for the caster needs and still have adjustment to minimize bump steer with extended geometry (when you remove the droop stop.) I also wanted to to have the larger uniball (1.25") that no one else offered for the Colorado / Canyon UCA market.
Ultimately, I wanted to replace the Uniball with one of their Camburg 1.25" X Joints (High Articulation Sealed Ball Joint) in the same arm and was hoping if they saw enough interest the Kinetik Billet Version.
If I didn't push for the Camburg part I would have been looking for the features I mentioned above:
1. Billet construction
2. Adjustable pivots (heim) at the frame
3. Sealed high articulation ball joint