So much for cheap oil changes

[Sparky]

I haven't been driving the van because of a bad oil leak. Finally found out the problem. I took it to Walmart for an oil change. They tightened the oil filter to the point of breaking the gasket. So much for a $30 oil.change

[blm28]

Did Walmart cause the problem?

[Zundfolge]

I just don't trust anyone to change my oil. Seems to me more cars are messed up by idiots at Jiffy Lube (and other cheap places).

I used to work at two different shops and we did a lot of repairs to cars damaged by cheap oil changers.

[JoeT]

It's funny this came up today. I usually do all the maintenance on the cars, but my wife decided to run her mercedes to jiffy lube (or one of those quick places...she doesn't remember which one)

I noticed her parking spot had an oil spot where she parks. So I just got it up on the lift and it's leaking from the drain hole....I'm thinking shit, they over tightened and cracked the pan (note that mercedes pulls oil out of the tube for a change and not from the drain plug, I have been doing it this way too for the last 6-7 changes)

Nope, not cracked, just not tightened. It wasn't even finger tight. She was 4 quarts (of 9 total) low in the two weeks since the change.

So her $90 change cost me an hour of cleaning the undercarriage of the car and 4 quarts of Moble 1 synthetic. Thanks buddy for trying to give me a Sunday off , she meant well....

[Mazin]

Yea even if I do have a quick change done I always look at it before I leave. Also don't go to Just for brakes, I went once because I was being lazy and the asshats striped 2 out of 5 lugs on each tire on my f150. yea let me say that was a blast to drill out and replace studs and lugs.

[Sparky]

Yea even if I do have a quick change done I always look at it before I leave. Also don't go to Just for brakes, I went once because I was being lazy and the asshats striped 2 out of 5 lugs on each tire on my f150. yea let me say that was a blast to drill out and replace studs and lugs.

Oh man. How many bits did that take.

[Mazin]

Oh man. How many bits did that take.

4 carbide bits, a 18v craftsman cordless drill and an air wrench. Nothing made it out alive, shredded the bits and killed the drill and the air wrench.

[lead_magnet]

Anyone close to Pueblo should go to Solon Nissan. I get mine done there every time (and have for years now) and they've never done me wrong. Plus its nice that they check over all the indicator lights, wiper blades, top off other fluids ect. I just don't have the time or interest to deal with that crap anymore so when the wife goes shopping in Pueblo she stops by and has the car taken care of.

[tmleadr03]

4 carbide bits, a 18v craftsman cordless drill and an air wrench. Nothing made it out alive, shredded the bits and killed the drill and the air wrench.

Why did you have to drill them? You take a bfh and smack the old ones out and then an impact gun and pull the new ones in. You have to take the brakes apart but that isn't time consuming like drilling.

[Mazin]

Why did you have to drill them? You take a bfh and smack the old ones out and then an impact gun and pull the new ones in. You have to take the brakes apart but that isn't time consuming like drilling.

Well where the hell where you man! Hind site is 20/20 and I'm not a mechanic and don't have access to a BFH, btw what is a BFH.