Oil change services for my vehicles. Despite doing tons of my own repairs, I hate dealing with the oil. It always gets on the outside of the container and my recycling locations are always full. The service (including oil) used to be about 50% more than the oil I could buy to do myself. It was worth it to me to spend an extra dinner’s worth of money ~4 times a year. But now a service costs at least twice as much as the oil alone, even at independent shops. Plus, I now get oil in slight bulk, so the service is 3x what I pay in oil. I treated myself to a nice catch pan and dedicated funnels as a compromise, still costing less than a service on my first DIY in a decade.
Not to mention a lot of shops run 55 gallon drums of INCREDIBLY cheap oil. You can spend less and be runing very high quality oil for ur car to help it last as long as possible 🙏 this guess for ur brakes and shit too most shops source the cheapest crap from local parts stores that they can, if you shoot around you can buy quality parts without breaking the bank and not have to repeat as many repairs or replace ur brakes because their rotted not worn etc.
Honestly, it’s stupid easy. The worst part for me is shimmying on the ground to get under the car, but I have spondyloarthritis so maybe most folks aren’t even bothered by that. It has always been eyebrow-raisingly more cost effective to diy an oil change.
Brake pads are harder but not really all that difficult. Huge cost savings if you diy there too.
I guess I’m lucky that every auto parts store near me takes used oil for free. I drain my old oil into the “pan,” set it aside and do the oil change, and then i pour the pan of used oil into the now-empty jug that had my fresh oil. I take a sharpie and write OLD on the jug. I set that aside in the shed. Then when it’s time for my next oil change, I grab that jug of old oil out of the shed and take it to the auto parts store where I dump it and then buy fresh oil and a filter – one-stop shopping. Easy peasy.
Oil change services for my vehicles. Despite doing tons of my own repairs, I hate dealing with the oil. It always gets on the outside of the container and my recycling locations are always full. The service (including oil) used to be about 50% more than the oil I could buy to do myself. It was worth it to me to spend an extra dinner’s worth of money ~4 times a year. But now a service costs at least twice as much as the oil alone, even at independent shops. Plus, I now get oil in slight bulk, so the service is 3x what I pay in oil. I treated myself to a nice catch pan and dedicated funnels as a compromise, still costing less than a service on my first DIY in a decade.
I’m planning on doing this myself now.
My last oil change was $116 with a $15 off coupon.
I can buy the oil from Costco for like $30. A good quality oil filter is 20 bucks.
Even if it takes me a full hour to do, which it will not, I’m getting paid $70 for that hour.
Not to mention a lot of shops run 55 gallon drums of INCREDIBLY cheap oil. You can spend less and be runing very high quality oil for ur car to help it last as long as possible 🙏 this guess for ur brakes and shit too most shops source the cheapest crap from local parts stores that they can, if you shoot around you can buy quality parts without breaking the bank and not have to repeat as many repairs or replace ur brakes because their rotted not worn etc.
Honestly, it’s stupid easy. The worst part for me is shimmying on the ground to get under the car, but I have spondyloarthritis so maybe most folks aren’t even bothered by that. It has always been eyebrow-raisingly more cost effective to diy an oil change.
Brake pads are harder but not really all that difficult. Huge cost savings if you diy there too.
I guess I’m lucky that every auto parts store near me takes used oil for free. I drain my old oil into the “pan,” set it aside and do the oil change, and then i pour the pan of used oil into the now-empty jug that had my fresh oil. I take a sharpie and write OLD on the jug. I set that aside in the shed. Then when it’s time for my next oil change, I grab that jug of old oil out of the shed and take it to the auto parts store where I dump it and then buy fresh oil and a filter – one-stop shopping. Easy peasy.