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.................................

Lol!!!¡#!!¡#@ wtf!! :icon17:

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.

desperate times call for desperate measures

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

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.

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

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

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

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 :)

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.

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..

I like option 3:

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

:)

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:

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

Hahaha! Ken just said "flapping bottom"! :eek::pics::icon17:

Will never ever ever go to another Wal-Mart for an oil change. There is one right down from where I work and if I was busy traveling or what not I would swing my Z71 in there for an oil change. The third time I went there they call me and say I can either have my truck towed or that I could put my own oil in. I was like WTF, so I had a friend drive me down. Apparently sometime earlier they had stripped my oil plug and put a heli-coil in. They denied even though, I had all the reciepts from the previous oil changes. Then told me that they would not put oil in the vehicle with the heli-coil.

Long story short I had to go down in the pit, put my own oil plug back in and fill it. Then he tried to charge me...I went ballastic and told him I wasnt paying a dime, I just changed my own damn oil. He was going to say something till I pointed to the big sign that said "no customers past this point" and said you know why thats there right....

Since then I will always do my own oil changes. Walmart can DIAF.

righty tighty lefty loosy.

have to be a complete idiot to use so much force to tighten the plug.

Apparently they used an impact wrench or something, and with the Z71 having an aluminium oil pan they stripped it so far I couldnt even use an oversized plug in it.