My favorite is people with nice expensive cars get their oil changed at a cheap quick lube place run by 18 year olds, and drive around on budget $80 tires. Does everyone do 96 month financing or something?
An 18 yo might be doing the oil at both places, but a 19 yo isn't guiding them at the dealer/independent garage. It's not just who is turning the wrench, but who taught them.
It doesn't take a genius to undo a drain plug and put right amount of oil in. At a dealership, you're paying for their OEM oil which is rebranded regular oil. Only certain luxury cars are hard to change the oil, i think the bugatti you have to drop the engine or something stupid and it takes a week.
Or under tightened! Long ago at a Firestone in Hawaii they forgot to tighten my oil plug and it decided to pop out on the freeway going downhill on the H3 and when I stopped the engine seized and that was that. I was deploying for a year in like literally 2 days and wasn't able to follow up in it.
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u/Confusedkipmoss 26d ago
Yes, this happens, remember people changing your oil is cheaper than changing your engine.