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Do you change your own oil?
I used to all the time. For many years. Now I do it myself only about 1/3 of the time.
Do you change your own oil?
I used to all the time. For many years. Now I do it myself only about 1/3 of the time.
Do you change your own oil?
I used to all the time. For many years. Now I do it myself only about 1/3 of the time.
I don't do nearly as much maintenance for the same reasons. I still swap out brake pads and rotors and other easy stuff, but much of the things I used to do are now beyond my desire, or even capability. Shoot, sometimes even if I could do it there's so much crap in the way to be removed that that alone discourages me.Used to. Haven't done it myself in probably 25 years. The garage I use charges abotu $25 above the cost of the oil to do an oil change. Worth the extra money to not have to jack up the car, get filthy and the hassles of dealing with the waste oil.
Truthfully I do almost no maintenance on my cars myself any more for lack of time or expertise. My new car is essentially a computer on wheels that would require all manner of equipment I don't have or that probably isn't a available to consumers to work on.
Do you change your own oil?
I used to all the time. For many years. Now I do it myself only about 1/3 of the time.
Do you change your own oil?
I used to all the time. For many years. Now I do it myself only about 1/3 of the time.
Do you change your own oil?
I used to all the time. For many years. Now I do it myself only about 1/3 of the time.
I don't do nearly as much maintenance for the same reasons. I still swap out brake pads and rotors and other easy stuff, but much of the things I used to do are now beyond my desire, or even capability. Shoot, sometimes even if I could do it there's so much crap in the way to be removed that that alone discourages me.
How do you quantify faster? As far as just the act of oil changing, I'd say taking else where is faster. By the time I get my ramps out, blah blah blah, while they already have all that stuff out and ready to go. Plus, they have either a lift or a pit, which I do not. (A lift or pit would be in my garage after I built my dream house after I win the lottery [if I played], of course. :lolYes its faster and cheaper.
I often do on my Jeep Wrangler, it is easy to get under and the filter is easy to get to too. It is just kinda a pain to get to oil to somewhere I can dump it.
How do you quantify faster? As far as just the act of oil changing, I'd say taking else where is faster. By the time I get my ramps out, blah blah blah, while they already have all that stuff out and ready to go. Plus, they have either a lift or a pit, which I do not. (A lift or pit would be in my garage after I built my dream house after I win the lottery [if I played], of course. :lol
Do you change your own oil?
I used to all the time. For many years. Now I do it myself only about 1/3 of the time.
I've always owned cars of SUV or pickup build and so I change oil myself (they have enough ground clearance to crawl my overweight a$$ under)
if I bought a lower riding car like a sedan I'd pay someone to do it.
but I would watch them do it, or insist on doing so, I don't trust oil change shops, I was watching a CBC news documentary on how an established oil change place in Canada was charging customers for services never performed, in one case they actually topped off the engine coolant in a modern car that uses the orange dextrol coolant with green coolant, no bueno.
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