Chris, Larissa is correct. Painless is great but overpriced. As for doing it yourself, well that is how I started out and now that is what I do for fun and money, I wire cars. However I live in San Diego. The only thing I can say about painless is that the harness can be pretty generic. I wired a Scout for a friend and a Land cruiser for a buddy and it was the same harnesss for both vehicles! Worked great, I had to ass wire to some leads because of my routing chioces(mostly hidden) but other than that I worked great. A welder I eork with is wiring his Scout with a painless kit and has had a few questions but has got it done on his own. If you go with another manufacturer make sure they supply some sort of labeling on the wires. I use color codes but hten again I have 14 different colors/stripe combos and then there is gauge. If you do it yourself it will cost you more in wire and terminals than the kit, but you will have left over parts. You will also have to deal with the engineering problems like gauge verus load verus distance. Good luck and keep posting.