re: The tune-up thread

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I make a decent salary, but I'll be damned if I'm gonna pay some uneducated schlub big bucks to do things I can do as well or better than he can.

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There are things one must remember. Who do you think does the oil changes at the places? The lowest level, newest guy - probably one who was serving fries the week before. Too many horror stories coming out of those places.

For instance, a friend of mine took his vehicle to a local Toyota dealership for an oil change/rotation. The outcome: they over torqued the drain bolt resulting in a warped pan and the also didn't change his filter (fortunately he listened and marked his filter...). He went through hell just getting things fixed.

More questions must be asked: Did they even change the oil? (How do you know?)
Did they use the correct weight oil? (How do you know?)
Oil filter?
Etc, etc, etc...