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sonic370 03-06-2011 05:45 PM

Living on the edge
 
Well i'm not a do-it-yourself kind of guy and my oil needed changing, i was about
500 miles past due and it was driving me crazy. Usually i take it to my dealer
with my own oil "Mobil1" but they were closed today.And like i said earlier it was
driving me crazy so i said what the heck and went to a Super Wal-Mart!!!!!!!

Can't believe i just said that. But anyway the tech guy was so excited he was going to get to change the oil on a 370 he let me watch in the bay area.
No way in hell i was letting them touch it without me being present. Anyway all came out well no oil leaks or burning smell on the drive home. Just thought i would share.................................

kenchan 03-06-2011 05:49 PM

Lol!!!¡#!!¡#@ wtf!! :icon17:

Jordo! 03-06-2011 06:14 PM

Congrats? :icon17:

If it makes you feel any better, in the future, you can probably let it go closer to 6K without worries, although an oil analysis (e.g., through Blackstone) would be needed to confirm that.

Dreezy562 03-06-2011 06:37 PM

desperate times call for desperate measures

sonic370 03-06-2011 07:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dreezy562 (Post 972672)
desperate times call for desperate measures

:iagree: when you gotta go you gotta go.............

sonic370 03-06-2011 07:14 PM

the only weird thing about it was they said their computer said it called for 5.2
quart's of oil so i got to bring home a little left over mobil1.

6MT 03-06-2011 07:23 PM

Must be a really slow day on the forums...

christian370z 03-06-2011 07:43 PM

That is EXTREME! I should hope they can perform an oil change...

kenchan 03-06-2011 08:11 PM

hope you dont lose your lower plastic cover screws... chances are they are either over torqued or under torqued.

spearfish25 03-06-2011 09:24 PM

One might argue it's better to wait to change the oil for a few hundred more miles than to ever take it to Walmart...


Kenchan, those screws cost <25c each. It's not like they're made of platinum! You crack me up :)

sonic370 03-07-2011 07:28 AM

yes you are right maybe better to wait. but since i was almost inside the service
area and could see all going on i went for it. if they would have asked me to wait inside i would have waited drove off.

RockStarKick 03-07-2011 10:01 AM

Guess you could look at it this way also.. Taking it to the dealer to a tech that works on these cars all day and really doesn't care..

Taking it the Wal mart and the tech is actually excited to be working on it..

I don't really see a prob..

spearfish25 03-07-2011 11:36 AM

I like option 3:

Take it to my house's garage where the 'tech' cares and has done it a bunch of times.

:)

Lug 03-07-2011 11:39 AM

I take my "normal" cars to my local Walmart all the time for oil changes. Out of at least 25 separate changes, I've never had one problem. I've even done the Z there once. :eek:

kenchan 03-07-2011 12:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by spearfish25 (Post 972995)
Kenchan, those screws cost <25c each. It's not like they're made of platinum! You crack me up :)

ha! i dont care about the cost, but flapping bottom cover, i do. :icon14:


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