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Consider the next place you choose for your oil change (lemmy.ca)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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  1. Jiffy Lube is owned by Shell and they donate 54% to republicans.

  2. Great Canadian Oil Change is owned by an American company called Valvoline and they donate 100% to democrats.

  3. Mr. Lube is Canadian-owned and operated.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

n e v e r get your oil changed at the dealer or at a quick lube place. Never. Stop it. Please.

They don't care about your car, they will round off your drain bolts, and they will charge you up the ass for it and give you trash quality oil and filters (if they even change your filter at all).

I got an "end of warranty" inspection at my Hyundai dealership thinking it'd just be a quick thing where they look it over for anything they could cover under warranty, and they changed my brand new oil and oil / cabin and intake air filters without asking me first, and charged me $400 for the pleasure.

My independent mechanic charges me $110 for an oil and oil filter change using high quality synthetic oil. He tells me what he puts in/on the car, and he shows me on the car if there's anything I need to know.

Also, changing your air filters is dead easy on most cars. Just do it yourself, and check them every 6 months.

p.s.: transmission fluids are not forever fluids. Get your CVT fluids changed every 100,000 km.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Enh, fuck all the chains. Find a good independent mechanic. There’s lots out there.

Or, you buy the supplies and I’ll come over and do it for fifty bucks.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Look for a local independent garage if you can. Supporting Canadian business is good. Supporting Canadian small business is better.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

And a good local mechanic is worth his weight in gold! It took about a year in our current city before we found "our guy" but we're customers for life now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

You gotta have a guy. When we moved out of Toronto 7 years ago, I knew I'd miss friends, but the thing I was most upset about was having to leave the mechanic I'd had for 25 years. Vito, you're still the man.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah, you definitely might have to shop around a bit to find a good mechanic, but they're worth it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

This all the way - if you have a car, you gotta have a guy. Friends don't let friends take their car to Crappy Tire or Mr Lube.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Exactly! My preferred way to go.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

  1. Jiffy lube frequently rounds off drain bolts, over tightens drain bolts and strips out the oil pan, puts on the wrong oil filter, spills oil everywhere, and misdiagnoses any other problem you ask them about while you're in there.

  2. I haven't been around the other ones, but...

  3. Other comments sound like they're just as bad.

Stay away from quick oil change places. Find an independent shop with good reviews if you're not willing to DIY.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Jiffy lube frequently rounds off drain bolts,

All of these quick cheap oil change places hire minimum wage inexperienced people and push them to work as fast as possible.

It shouldn't be any great surprise that their work is of questionable quality.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don't you have a guy? I have a guy for everything when it comes to my car.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do you have a toe guy?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah and he's a bit weird. I never understood those feet fetishists.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Maybe do it yourself? It's the easiest car maintenance you can do next to maybe filling your blinker fluid or checking your mirror pressure.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not everyone has a suitable spot to do vehicle maintenance. Not exactly easy if you have angled driveways, or park on the street, etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

And for warranty purposes, you want receipts and a "fall guy" if anything goes wrong.

You can document your own work and keep your oil / oil filter / crush ring receipts, but some dealerships will fight you on it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fyi for anyone afraid to change their own oil for fear of dumping it all on the driveway, just look up a (Canadian manufactured) "oil transfer pump" (manual or electric) and ensure the tube it comes with will fit and reach down to the bottom of your oil tank through the dipstick. Then pump it out into a container. Afterwards you can take the bolt out and get anything that may be left, in my experience a drop or two. Also saves me from having to jack up my car to fit the tub under, I can use a shallower pan.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Nice one.

I have a ball-cock stopper in my drain plug with a tube that I put into my oil catch pan for one vehicle. The other vehicle, I don't like how far it sticks out and I'm worried it will catch on the road if I bottom out or go over a large bump. (It's a vintage Porsche 914).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Somehow I missed the fluid part and was very confused at the mirror pressure 😂

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You hwat

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Sometwo they missed a thing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Also great Canadian oil change fucks your vehicle up 80% of the time you go there. The one here does anyways.

If you have a place you can do it yourself, just do it yourself, it's super easy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

I'll take the parking lot of Crappy Tire and a 17mm wrench over a Canadian quick lube place. Shoddy work and shady upsells is the nature of that kind of business.

Changing your own oil isn't an option for everyone, but don't risk an engine at these places either. It's not even cheaper than grabbing your own oil and filter retail and telling an independent shop to do it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I'll change your oil using my asshole for nine sheckels and a tuppence.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

My what? I drive a Leaf.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Then whenever possible stay away from fucking uggghh Chargepoint. Flo is a Canadian network, and in BC, the Hydro chargers are pretty reliable. Though in an older Leaf you may have to take what you can get.

I hate this network charging bullshit. It’s like “tell us who you are and where you live or no gasoline”—can you imagine how that would go over— why do we put up with it? Grateful I can charge at home.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I hate this network charging bullshit

I'm still confused why all public chargers don't have a card pad on them, just like every self-serve gas pump has had for decades.

You shouldn't need a bunch of stupid apps and accounts to charge when you travel.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Flo is great in my area. Most of the time I use their chargers, but honestly, I'll use whatever is around. I also have a Leaf and don't always have the luxury of driving more to find a preferred charger.

The free L2 chargers are always nice, though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Your car still has maintenance items.

Oh and btw it does have oil for the reduction gearbox.

Nice snarky comment, though.