Thread: $600 for an oil change?

Originally Posted by Bol Tackshin

Common sense leaves the chat...

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Did you not figure out I was taking the piss about the charges being at cost?

I'm old and jaded. I consider nothing to be impossible, and find separating truth from fiction more difficult each passing year!

This was page two of the charging details:

Originally Posted by Trout

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I think there’s a good chance 15w40 is the wrong oil, that will cost more in fuel to run between services than you save on oil.
I’ve always done my own servicing because I can and only know one mechanic that I would trust and he is the guy I trained 30years ago.
No one has mentioned checking the diff oil, checking and adjusting the brakes, checking the lights all work, plugging in the scan tool to check for faults. Making sure you are safe to drive the car.

Theres also a few other simple things you check on certain vehicles that helps keep them alive longer or go better that we dont write on the job sheet but get plenty of comments saying that what ever we did on the service made the vehicle go heaps better

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this was how i found my sump plug just after i bought it. some people just cant be taught how to do basic jobs on a car. P.S. it leaked but not after i replaced it for the princely cost of $10

Fuk custom sump plug

Originally Posted by No.3

You sound like you're married to my wife - she has her own shit wood that she gets from all over the place and what tops it off, she can't visualise anything until you get half to 3/4 way through the project and then she comes out with what you've misunderstood or done completely differently to what she wanted. Bloody fun I tell you...

As far as the servicing, definitely cheaper to DIY provided you know what you are about. The number of guys that cost themselves thousands, and half don't even realise that they are the cause of their issues!

Some vehicles you don't touch yourself - to much dumb shite on them (some Euro and Jap vehicles now have a plastic sump pan with a fitting cast in that the sump plug screws into, do the wrong thing with that and break the sump pan and you're screwed).

I used to get a bloody good deal on oil, I mean real good as I was in that industry for a while and what I could get it for was about $1 a litre cheaper than the dealer was charging. For an hour or so of labour to do the job, I reckon it cost me more than giving it to them. This was until they pissed me off mind you haha. I can do the servicing myself but I really hate working on cars. They suck.

Some vehicles have a plastic pan on the trans which you have replace the whole thing a the filter is build into the pan

I remember having to weld a nut onto my mondeo sump plug which inlet a mate service it for free. Rattled on the sump plug for me mint.lol.

Originally Posted by blip

Fuk custom sump plug

Yep, see the two dents in the washer, it had three of them, meaning three oil changes after super mod.
I had to use a few of my tricks to remove my brother in laws sump plug after he rounded it, I’m not saying you shouldn’t change your own oil but many should not be allowed tools.

Originally Posted by blip

Some vehicles have a plastic pan on the trans which you have replace the whole thing a the filter is build into the pan

Least they don't have a sump plug fitting in metal cast into the plastic which is supposed to handle the torque of a gorilla swinging off a 3/4 breaker bar on the sump plug...

Originally Posted by 2post

Yep, see the two dents in the washer, it had three of them, meaning three oil changes after super mod.
I had to use a few of my tricks to remove my brother in laws sump plug after he rounded it, I’m not saying you shouldn’t change your own oil but many should not be allowed tools.

could of got a few more out of it if they had some thread tape

Originally Posted by Trout

Smear a dop of oil on both threads and use some stilsons if you have to.

You would just love doing the Terrano. Doesn't matter which way I try...the only way to reach is hanging plurry near upside down over left mudguard with arms fed down side of engine to undo or do up filter...can't for life of me get oil filter wrench in there....reminds me I must hurry up and do the change.

Originally Posted by 2post

I think there’s a good chance 15w40 is the wrong oil, that will cost more in fuel to run between services than you save on oil.
I’ve always done my own servicing because I can and only know one mechanic that I would trust and he is the guy I trained 30years ago.
No one has mentioned checking the diff oil, checking and adjusting the brakes, checking the lights all work, plugging in the scan tool to check for faults. Making sure you are safe to drive the car.

I think there's a good chance 15W40 is the right oil for a old tdi 4.2 engine.Its been running smooth as for the last 15yrs on that oil and never given a problem.You sound like a garage looking for work,spin a bit of bull shit to get new clients in to yr work shop,then ripp them off.

I used to love the sound of a v8 now days when I hear one coming I cringe. Its usually a yank piece of shit that every expert has had a go at first and now we have to sort it out