re: Oil change prices

I miss the days of the $30 oil change at the dealership

Yeah, all you have to do is sit at the dealership and stare at new trucks for far too long. That's the built in feature of "free" oil changes. I massively prefer paying every six months to sit in my truck for under 20 minutes and GTFO. I don't want your free coffee, your cookies, bottles of water, I want to leave.

Euro oil for the ex was one of the reasons I started buying it on my own and bringing it to Valvoline. Even paying for the oil from the shop in 2019 was only $90, including the extra quarts when I didn't supply the oil (base charge $90, extra oil was $17.08, mail coupon subtracted $23.) When I brought my own oil and filter, IIRC the cost was under $40 in subsequent years for labor and disposal.

Valvoline Euro is about $8.60 a quart if you buy more than 4 quarts, and you can get an additional 20% off with subscribe and save direct. So that cost (not including oil filter) could be cut in half, while paying for labor at a local shop.

A lot of people are scared at signing up for subscribe and save deals, but you're either the kind of person that has 11,000 unread emails and reminders you don't pay attention to, or you pay attention. But especially when it's a product that doesn't go bad, when that case of oil shows up, it's your reminder to pause your next shipment for 9 months, and just stash the oil in the garage. I think I had seven massive unopened boxes of toilet paper that got auto shipped from Amazon in February of 2020, but I knew that shite was going to get used eventually.

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Those 5 quart combo deals at Advance and such for ~$40 are nice, until you add 2 single quarts for another $13 each.

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Buy two 4 or 5 quart jugs and don't get raped on the singles. You just have to do it every 2 or three oil changes.

Someone mentioned disposal, most drain pans have a spout and I just pour the used oil right back in the container it came from and sit it in the corner of the garage until I go the next time to buy oil and haul it into the place I buy it. All the auto parts places around here have used oil drop offs.

My 2019 Camry recommends full synthetic and that cost $100 the last 2 changes.

I’ll go back to changing my own oil. frick that.

For my truck, about $60 at Walmart. Bought my tires from there and paid a little extra to have the lifetime rotation and balance.

Yeah around $100 sounds about what I used to pay for the change at Subaru dealer. I recently stopped doing that, and just do it myself now. It’s extremely simple, and clean with the oil filter sitting on top of the engine. Save about $70, and it’s quicker than if I were to drive there and have them do it…and I know it’s done right. The final straw was when they overfilled my oil.

$55 for full synthetic at Walmart. 6 quarts and a filter for my V6 truck.

The brand can be variable but usually, it is Mobile 1 or Castrol at the Prairieville location.