And then comes the interesting bit:
After you did your field repair, do you let your maintenance organization take it apart again and ensure you did it properly? Would you do such repairs a lot? Are you prepared to foot the whole bill, no insurance valid, in the unlikely event that the wheel comes off on landing?
And the even more interesting bit:
Would you fly a plane that others, gods know who and when, have made such repairs to? Is it ok that, out of a sample of 10,000 pilots, 100 do such repairs and 5 get it wrong, bending their planes or worse? Would you fly a plane where nobody is even providing updated mx documentation anymore, or where nobody ever has?
Not at all rhetorical questions by the way, just thinking out loud on the differences between CofA and experimental... And why I'd never rent a non-CofA...