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re: How do I raise my car enough to change my own oil? Tried going up on a curb
Posted on 9/18/25 at 4:10 pm to CroikeyMate69
Posted on 9/18/25 at 4:10 pm to CroikeyMate69
There is a ship in NOLA you can rent space for and use his equipment.
Check if there is I one near you
Check if there is I one near you
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Posted on 9/18/25 at 4:23 pm to CroikeyMate69
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How do I raise my car enough to change my own oil? Tried going up on a curb
You aren’t ready to take on this task.
Posted on 9/18/25 at 4:35 pm to CroikeyMate69
Posted on 9/18/25 at 4:37 pm to CroikeyMate69
If available, straddle a ditch. Should provide plenty of room.
Posted on 9/18/25 at 4:54 pm to CroikeyMate69
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This is my first time to ever *attempt* to change my oil.
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early 30s
Has anyone told him to ask his husband for help?
Posted on 9/18/25 at 4:54 pm to CroikeyMate69
If you have to ask we are probably going to be reading about your death when you get smashed by a two ton vehicle. Get your husband to do it.
Posted on 9/18/25 at 4:58 pm to CroikeyMate69
frick the haters.
If someone gives you shite for trying to learn something, then they can get bent. Watch a YouTube video on your particular vehicle and you'll do it fine. Those ramps are handy and not expensive.
At least youre doing it yourself, unlike most of these nerds that are paying a high school dropout to change theirs.
ETA--those ramps are handy as frick. Last year we were living in our 5th wheel for 4 months during a house remodel. I used those car ramps to wheel the external Rhino dump tank on to so I could elevate it to dump it in the septic clean out. Worked great.
If someone gives you shite for trying to learn something, then they can get bent. Watch a YouTube video on your particular vehicle and you'll do it fine. Those ramps are handy and not expensive.
At least youre doing it yourself, unlike most of these nerds that are paying a high school dropout to change theirs.
ETA--those ramps are handy as frick. Last year we were living in our 5th wheel for 4 months during a house remodel. I used those car ramps to wheel the external Rhino dump tank on to so I could elevate it to dump it in the septic clean out. Worked great.
This post was edited on 9/18/25 at 5:04 pm
Posted on 9/18/25 at 5:01 pm to CroikeyMate69
I have a spot that is a shallow grass ditch....I straddle it w my sun and lay in the grass ditch....works great
Posted on 9/18/25 at 5:08 pm to Hangit
Anyone thinking of buying these DON'T!!!!
If you need extra height, the OP won't, over a standard ramp use a jack and quality jacks stands.
If you can't see the potentially deadly issues with these don't take my word for it watch the Project Farm video on car ramps.
For some reason, my image key isn't working, it is the red ramps with the hydraulic jacks for extra height. I'll try to edit with the picture after I post.
ETA still doesn't work? Hamsters don't like me.
Finally!
If you need extra height, the OP won't, over a standard ramp use a jack and quality jacks stands.
If you can't see the potentially deadly issues with these don't take my word for it watch the Project Farm video on car ramps.
For some reason, my image key isn't working, it is the red ramps with the hydraulic jacks for extra height. I'll try to edit with the picture after I post.
ETA still doesn't work? Hamsters don't like me.
Finally!
This post was edited on 9/18/25 at 5:45 pm
Posted on 9/18/25 at 5:10 pm to CroikeyMate69
You can always Pay.
Posted on 9/18/25 at 5:16 pm to Clames
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I'd much rather have a metal oil pan (peeferably steel), gets whacked running over a piece of road debris I'd rather have a dent and maybe seepage than a full hole busted out of it. A stamped steel replacement pan for my vehicles is about $50 - $75.
Those "genuises" also put a secondary plastic bottom that you have to remove before accessing where the oil pan is.
So a normal 5 minute job of unscrewing the plug is now infinitely longer because you have 15 screws to remove just to get access to it.
Posted on 9/18/25 at 5:21 pm to deltaland
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If you don’t want to purchase drive on ramps, get a 4 by 4 wooden post or a 6 by 6 and cut a block about a foot long. Put block on top of your small jack this will give you an extra 4-6 inches of lift
This sounds like an excellent way to die
Just buy some ramps and chocks, man. It's that simple.
I was a diesel mechanic in another life, DO NOT use your little OEM scissor jack to do anything but change a tire in an emergency. Especially don't balance a piece of wood on top of that jack and expect your 2.5 ton SUV to be balanced on that piece of wood while you're under it.
I've had a vehicle slip off a jack and jack stands before because the lugnuts were overtightened by an idiot Walmart tire changer, you don't want to be under that vehicle and fighting with any sort of overtightened plug with it on jack stands - or especially a single scissor jack with a piece of wood on top of it.
This post was edited on 9/18/25 at 5:30 pm
Posted on 9/18/25 at 5:29 pm to Tarps99
Ridiculous, at least when they started going to cast aluminum they could argue about heat dissipation and structural stiffness. Plastic is just being cheap and creating a failure point.
Posted on 9/18/25 at 5:44 pm to RazorBroncs
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I've had a vehicle slip off a jack and jack stands before because the lugnuts were overtightened by an idiot Walmart tire changer
You’re the idiot that didn’t loosen the lug nuts before you jacked it up.
Posted on 9/18/25 at 5:46 pm to CroikeyMate69
Nice “I can change my own oil” brag.
Posted on 9/18/25 at 6:35 pm to CroikeyMate69
$95 at AutoZone
Posted on 9/18/25 at 7:45 pm to CroikeyMate69
People get killed all the time when the car they are working on falls on them. That’s gotta be a particularly bad way to die. I remember a story where a kid twisted the handle on the jack and the car crushed his dad.
Get a jack and jack stands or car ramps.
Get a jack and jack stands or car ramps.
Posted on 9/18/25 at 7:48 pm to UptownJoeBrown
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I've had a vehicle slip off a jack and jack stands before because the lugnuts were overtightened by an idiot Walmart tire changer
You’re the idiot that didn’t loosen the lug nuts before you jacked it up.
The wheel was stuck on the hub where it had been warped by overtightening actually
But keep being a know-it-all
Posted on 9/18/25 at 7:52 pm to chryso
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I find it hard to believe that you can't crawl under an explorer.
This. My wife has a Mazda CX9 and I’ve never had to raise it to change the oil. We’re also of similar build.
Posted on 9/18/25 at 8:34 pm to RazorBroncs
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The wheel was stuck on the hub where it had been warped by overtightening actually But keep being a know-it-all
How about you tell-it-all?
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