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Originally Posted by Sparky-Watts

As far as changing oil, I've never had anyone change my oil in my vehicles. I'm not about to put my engine in the hands of some high school dropout. Always done it myself. My dad taught me how to do it when I was 8 years old, as well as the benefits of frequent oil changes. When I was in college (the second time) I worked at Iffy Lube for 2 weeks. It was a daily occurence to have one of the "mechanics" leave either a drain plug out or forget to put a filter on, resulting in a blown engine for the customer. I could maybe understand once or twice a year, but every stinkin' day this happened at least once, sometimes more than once! And I've heard from other people that it isn't just the one I worked at, pretty much all of them have a bad track record.

yeah, I've always done my own on everything except the accord; it was too dang low to the ground for me to get under without jacking it up, and instead of buying jackstands I thought "it's SO easy. NOBODY could screw up an oil change"

Learned my lesson.