Where do you get your oil change?
 

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except DIY.

:D

Dealer because free.

Socal Motorworks...why? Because I'm a lazy bastard...:ugh2:

In my garage

Wow

on the Earth, in my case.

* Exclude DIYs please

:D

:iagree:

It's the only place where I know what I'm getting.

For most of the cars I've owned, the oil got changed in the garage/driveway. When I had the Z, it was more effort than I cared to expend to raise the car, unbolt the lower cover, &c, so I took it to a dealer.

Be aware that at a lot of dealerships the guy doing oil changes is the same guy that washes cars - minimum wage and probably not all that motivated to do a good job. When possible, I will seek out the guy who will be changing my oil and chat with him a bit in hopes that he will be doing the job for that-guy-with-the-nice-car instead of just-another-faceless-customer.

I've had bad luck with oil change shops and avoid them now. But you may have better luck in your area.

I order my own oil and filter off Amazon then spend $20 to have one of those lube shops do it... Of course I'm watching them the whole time. Usually they like talking to me about cars.

Mitsubishi dealership.

I can't comment, cause in my garage, and no DIY's allowed. :)

Stealership

Hiro's Auto in Costa Mesa. Eneos Synthetic 5w-30 and OEM Nissan oil filter for $62.50

@Ford stealership, show the mechanics what they're missing out on.

Is it legal that they put the same guy to do an oil change and a car wash ??

Should be illegal .

Private / personal mechanic. I buy redline oil at a rare store that carries it and at a great price.

You might need to let me in on that ;)

Parts Connection is the name of the store, its at 9751 South 700 East, in Sandy - its $11.75 a quart, lot less than the online stores with shipping, there is also Rally Sport Direct all the way past Draper and its priced around $12 a quart. :tup:

That is good to know thanks for the heads up. I got mine in the 12 pack on amazon but it was still 11.90 a quart

Why would/should it be illegal?

Here on Long Island I just go by forum sponsor Real Auto Dynamics for service as the dealerships are clueless about Z's 99 out of 100 times.

i just have the subaru dealership i work for do it. I am known to hover and piss off the lube guy, but oh well. he aint the brightest

no need to change oil. just buy new car.

My brother is a mechanic at a local garage. I but the oil and filter and they take care of the rest.

but buying the oil at walmart of all places is the most pita part of the work? :ugh: :icon17:

Lol...do you take your steak to the restaurant and ask the chef to cook it and request to watch him cook it ?? :yum:

$50 full synthetic at a local shop down the road.

Local Nissan Dealer. I went earlier this month and switched over to Mobil 1. Tech comes into lounge and asks "whos Z?". Started chatting - he owns a lightly modded one as well. He was asking about my F.I. exhaust. Pretty cool guy. I'd do it myself but since moving into my own place, I have no space to really work on the car. I feel much better about taking her to the dealer after I met the tech.

why u move to ur own space dat has no room to work on ur car? :ugh2:

garage first, dd next, then hobby car.

At the Nissan Stealership.

No one goes to the instant oil change stores like XX Lube ?? :eek:

Proper Drainage
 

They do not take the time to let it drain properly. I'm too old to be crawling under a car, but I'm gonna do it!

I DIY with PYB and Nissan filter. No way am I letting the dealership guys touch my car. If you look at most of their personal appearances, they really let themselves go and I'm sure their work gets the same kind of attention.
You CAN judge a book by it's cover. Of course there is always an exception but the rule still stands.

Yes ... don't you?

When we bought the house, my only priority, two car garage. When we moved in we parked two cars in it. Been that way ever since. It's a garage, not a storage shed.

A story:

I tell the agent, I want a house with a two car garage. First house she says here is a nice house ... no garage :icon14: Ma'am, I said two car garage. Next house, garage is one car :icon14: Ma'am, I said two car garage. Next house she shows us has a CAR PORT. Thank you Ma'am, we're done. I told this story to the next agent. Didn't see anything without a two car garage.

:tup:

Used to, bunch of hacks tyring to oversell services. Never taken the Z there though. Always changed the Z oil myself.

Apartment for now. Hopefully house/condo within the next 2 years. Tough in NJ. Also, my DD is my hobby car. :tup:

if you go through all that trouble of buying it, why not just do the 2nd half of it and change the oil yourself?

i would have booted off that realtor after the first time.

when i look for apartments, the FIRST thing i ask is if there are garages. That is a deal maker or breaker for me.

heck yeah. i takes my wanna-be kobe steaks from walmart, take it to the most expensive steak house in town, and stand right next to the chef as s/he prepares it. i make sure im not getting jipped from them giving me real kobe steak.:tup:

I don't go to the instant oil changes, either.

I feel very sad that I cannot trust them.