re: Changing Your Own Oil to Avoid the Hassle?

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I change my own oil, replace my own u joints, change my transmission fluids, replace my sparkplugs, rotate my own tires.

But I don't trust the minimum wage crack head at the express oil places. I grew up farming and learned to rebuild engines at age 15 so I prefer to do it myself...that way if it fricks up I only have to deal with myself

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This is it exactly! Those guys aren't paid well, many are not experienced and many don't give a crap about doing it right. My mother brought my car to one of those and they screwed up and caused lasting damage.

My husband is part of generations of a farming family himself and I admire these guys who know how to fix everything. The guys who don't know to do stuff or who hire careless or clueless people to do jobs for them have to call my husband to come take care of the mess that has been made.

Some may say that it may not be worth the money to do it yourself but it is not just about the small amount of money saved by doing it yourself, the potential for damage and the greater cost and issues aren't worth it for us.

We have a lot of money invested in various vehicles, tractors and other farm equipment.We'd rather not be at the mercy of others when dealing with stuff like that.

If need be, I am out there helping him and fetching him cool drinks and being his assistant ( and yes, I can change my own oil and other asst vehicle maintenance and repairs.