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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 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 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.
My local stores are always full and can’t take more. Still doesn’t change how much oil always gets on the outside of the containers
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.