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@ RedTailHawk
2025-06-18 16:03:31
At one point, before I was a homeowner with a place to store oil change equipment or a place to do oil changes, I used to take my car to a local shop.
I remember once they overtightened the oil pan plug bolt and popped one of the threads so it wouldn't hold oil anymore. They tried to tell me that the oil pan plug bolt was like any part that wears out over time.
I called bullshit. I told them that the car was holding oil when I brought it in and now it's not holding oil. That means they did something to screw it up. The manager who was trying to play me immediately began to backpedal, knowing I had her in a box.
She said they would fix my car for free.
I never went back after that. I priced up the tools and equipment I would need to do my own oil changes. I paid about $130 for the tools and equipment I would need.
At that time (2013), full synthetic oil changes cost me $82.28 at that local shop but I could do it myself for less than $35.
After 3 oil changes, the investment in the tools was already more than paid off.
Not accounting for inflation in any way, I saved over $1700.