I no longer change my oil because when I purchased my current vehicle, the dealer agreed to change the oil at no cost for the life of the vehicle.
This. Once it became all but impossible to crawl under the car and drain out the oil while having the car’s four wheels on terra firma, I said screw it, and decided it was time to pay someone else to do it.
And this:
This thread reminds me, I need to make an appointment to get an oil change Monday.
My answer is obviously “hell no.” Even if I knew how to, even if I didn’t hate getting my hands dirty, and even if the rate of error wasn’t likely to be a lot lower when in the hands of a professional, I sat down one day and calculated the cost difference between me tying to figure it out on my own vs paying someone else. The difference was less than $3. Well worth the cost IMHO.
I have a greasegun but I never think about it. It came with a rigid tip that was basically good for nothing, I found a flexible tip for not a lot of money that works much better for reaching hard to reach fittings.
For those on the fence about changing their oil, there are tricks like put down an old shower curtain to protect your floor/driveway, wear latex gloves to keep your hands clean, use the same containers your oil came in to carry away the old oil, and putting a ziplock bag over the filter before you unscrew it can help keep a lot of oil from getting on you and the car.
Nope. I hate doing it and now that I make enough that I don’t have to, I refuse to.
I used to. Then when I got an F150 I couldn’t figure out how to reach the oil filter. After watching YouTube videos that suggested crazy contortions or working with two people, I decided it was time to give up.
Oh hell no. Our son-in-law works for a local Mom n’ Pop oil change and trailer hitch installin’ place. My husband used to, but I put the quietus on it after the used oil from the last time he did it sat around for seven (count 'em-7) YEARS. It even went with us when we moved house. My sister and I took it to the free oil recycle at our local landfill. It took him a year after that to notice it was gone. 