View Poll Results: Who changes their own oil?
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Who changes their own oil?
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#27
Ford and the guy across the street (neighborhood mechanic) do my oil changes. I'm too freakin' busy to do stuff like that, nor do I have the space or resources. They get real pissed at you if you start working on your truck in the parking lot of your apartment building.. Ask me how I know! :|
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#34
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I change it myself everytime except for once after I had surgery. Had the local quik lube change it. (its run by 1 old guy the owner) I almost never got the oil filter off again too much leverage when you have a pit to stand up in.
Anyway I use the motorcraft filters.. Too good a buy at 2.97 (walmart)
Never had a bad one yet. The oil I use changes widely though.
Ford dealer pissed me off. I had 500miles on m1 syn and they dumped it for some bulk CRAP that was black in about 500 miles when they did the timing chain replacement/update.
Anyway I use the motorcraft filters.. Too good a buy at 2.97 (walmart)
Never had a bad one yet. The oil I use changes widely though.
Ford dealer pissed me off. I had 500miles on m1 syn and they dumped it for some bulk CRAP that was black in about 500 miles when they did the timing chain replacement/update.
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#42
heh u guys are lucky...i not only have to change mine, but my moms, my dads and i help with sarahs...
thats like 12-15 oil changes a year...my weekends get very busy, heh...
i changed the erl in my truck since i bought it. was doin my dads since i was 12 and just recently did my moms xploder. her old taurus was to low so i avoided it. and the ranger we are going to do ourselves since the freebies are over with...
plus i used to work at a shop changin erl, like 7-10 a day...
thats like 12-15 oil changes a year...my weekends get very busy, heh...
i changed the erl in my truck since i bought it. was doin my dads since i was 12 and just recently did my moms xploder. her old taurus was to low so i avoided it. and the ranger we are going to do ourselves since the freebies are over with...
plus i used to work at a shop changin erl, like 7-10 a day...
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#47
The only time I haven't changed my own was when I had a 4 cly, FWD car, with the filter on the back of the motor, with a large K-member under it, that made it nearly impossible to grab without the car on a lift. I paid for changes on that until I traded it on the 02 Edge. As for lifetime oil-changes at the dealership.. its probably fine, but when I see that oil being pumped out of the huge tank, I couldn't help but wonder (outloud, once, to a bunch of employees:) So if they bring it in in a tank-truck, how do you really know that its Motorcraft oil? Their responses generally agreed that it probably was NOT motorcraft oil, but whatever they could buy cheapest in bulk. Even if it was Motorcraft, the various cars all call for different grades, but they all get the tank oil, whatever it may be (unless you buy your own oil and provide it, in which case theres a 98% chance it will actually end up in your car.)
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