Yeah I'm in a apartment too, and I remember the the lease lady caught me outside one day and said I couldn't "play mechnic." I thought that was soo funny. One thing I want to learn how to do is the brakes because I just paid Just Brakes $500 to do all of mine because it was making this grinding metallic noise even when my foot wasn't on the brake and it was like that for 2 days! So next time I wanna do it myself, he said I should check it every 12,000 miles and I went 44,000 w/ out checking it so oh well!