THE FUNNY!! Change your oil PROPERLY

MikeMike

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Oil Change instructions for Women:

1) Pull up to Jiffy Lube when the mileage reaches 3000 miles since the last
oil change.
2) Drink a cup of coffee.
3) 15 minutes later, write a check and leave with a properly maintained
vehicle.

Money spent:
Oil Change $20.00
Coffee $1.00
Total $21.00
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Oil Change instructions for Men:

1) Wait until Saturday, drive to auto parts store and buy a case of oil, filter, kitty litter, hand cleaner and a scented tree, write a check for $50.00.
2) Stop by 7 - 11 and buy a case of beer, write a check for $20, drive home.
3) Open a beer and drink it.
4) Jack car up. Spend 30 minutes looking for jack stands.
5) Find jack stands under kid's pedal car.
6) In frustration, open another beer and drink it.
7) Place drain pan under engine.
8 ) Look for 9/16 box end wrench.
9) Give up and use crescent wrench.
10) Unscrew drain plug.
11) Drop drain plug in pan of hot oil: splash hot oil on you in process. Cuss.
12) Crawl out from under car to wipe hot oil off of face and arms. Throw kitty litter on spilled oil.
13) Have another beer while watching oil drain.
14) Spend 30 minutes looking for oil filter wrench.
15) Give up; crawl under car and hammer a screwdriver through oil filter and twist off
16) Crawl out from under car with dripping oil filter splashing oil everywhere from holes. Cleverly hide old oil filter among trash in trash can to avoid environmental penalties. Drink a beer.
17) Buddy shows up; finish case of beer with him. Decide to finish oil change tomorrow so you can go see his new garage door opener.
18) Sunday: Skip church because "I gotta finish the oil change." Drag pan full of old oil out from underneath car. Cleverly dump oil in hole in back yard instead of taking it back to Kragen to recycle.
19) Throw kitty litter on oil spilled during step 18.
20) Beer? No, drank it all yesterday.
21) Walk to 7-11; buy beer.
22) Install new oil filter making sure to apply a thin coat of oil to gasket surface.
23) Dump first quart of fresh oil into engine.
24) Remember drain plug from step 11.
25) Hurry to find drain plug in drain pan.
26) Remember that the used oil is buried in a hole in the back yard, along with drain plug.
27) Drink beer
28) Shovel out hole and sift oily mud for drain plug. Re-shovel oily dirt into hole. Steal sand from kids sandbox to cleverly cover oily patch of ground and avoid environmental penalties. Wash drain plug in lawnmower gas.
29) Discover that first quart of fresh oil is now on the floor. Throw kitty litter on oil spill.
30) Drink beer.
31) Crawl under car getting kitty litter into eyes. Wipe eyes with oily rag used to clean drain plug. Slip with stupid crescent wrench tightening drain plug and bang knuckles on frame.
32) Bang head on floorboards in reaction to step 31.
33) Begin cussing fit.
34) Throw stupid crescent wrench.
35) Cuss for additional 10 minutes because wrench hit bowling trophy.
36) Beer.
37) Clean up hands and forehead and bandage as required to stop blood flow.
38) Beer.
39) Beer.
40) Dump in five fresh quarts of oil.
41) Beer.
42) Lower car from jack stands.
43) Accidentally crush remaining case of new motor oil.
44) Move car back to apply more kitty litter to fresh oil spilled during steps 23 - 43.
45) Beer.
46) Test drive car.
47) Get pulled over: arrested for driving under the influence.
48) Car gets impounded.
49) Call loving wife, make bail.
50) 12 hours later, get car from impound yard.

Money spent:

Parts $50.00
DUI $2500.00
Impound fee $75.00
Bail $1500.00
Beer $40.00
Total - - $4,165.00

But you know the job was done right!
 

jagec

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LOL!

But there is one change I need to make:
Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE
Oil Change instructions for Women:

1) Pull up to Jiffy Lube when the mileage reaches 3000 miles since the last
oil change.
2) Drink a cup of coffee.
3) 15 minutes later, write a check and leave without a drop of oil in the engine because the monkeys who work at Jiffy Lube were too busy trying not to drool on themselves to actually do their job.

 
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Garages lose money with oil changes. It's simply to get you in the door so they can push other services onto you.
 

jagec

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Originally posted by: LoKe
Garages lose money with oil changes. It's simply to get you in the door so they can push other services onto you.

I'll be the first to admit I don't save THAT much money by doing my own oil changes...but I use quality stuff, and I know that it's actually been changed!
 

nboy22

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You forgot the alternate path for women, take car to jiffy lube, jiffy lube forgets to put oil plug back in, woman drives car home, engine seizure, major money. haha.. those places are always leaving something out and forgetting to put it back in, whether it be plug, filter, or the oil itself.
 

MikeMike

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Originally posted by: LoKe
Garages lose money with oil changes. It's simply to get you in the door so they can push other services onto you.

i really dont know if they do or not, but im willing to bet its about even.

buy oil in HUGE bulk saves money, filters im not sure if those are bulk or not, and then they take very lil time, 15 minutes, to do it.
 
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Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE
Originally posted by: LoKe
Garages lose money with oil changes. It's simply to get you in the door so they can push other services onto you.

i really dont know if they do or not, but im willing to bet its about even.

buy oil in HUGE bulk saves money, filters im not sure if those are bulk or not, and then they take very lil time, 15 minutes, to do it.

Trust me, money is lost.
 

giantpinkbunnyhead

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Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
this is so old and so a repost.

So? Some of us saw this for the first time, who would otherwise have not seen it. Therefore it had some value and was worth posting.

Good joke BTW, I laughed because it is approximately how my oil changes go....
 

RelaxTheMind

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im guilty of maybe 30 of those steps... yet after first few oil changes i ever did it became second nature....

then again draining oil from a ford f-150 is 100,000 times easier than draining oil from a camaro...
 

jagec

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Originally posted by: RelaxTheMind
im guilty of maybe 30 of those steps... yet after first few oil changes i ever did it became second nature....

then again draining oil from a ford f-150 is 100,000 times easier than draining oil from a camaro...

DRAINING oil is almost always easy, it's getting that stupid filter on and off that can be a real PITA on some cars...:)
 

Fritzo

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I know SO many people like that. "It only costs $10 to change your own oil! You can do it in 15 minutes!"

NOT!
 
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Originally posted by: Fritzo
I know SO many people like that. "It only costs $10 to change your own oil! You can do it in 15 minutes!"

NOT!

It can be done that quickly, yes. Unless you're changing the oil on a Mini Cooper. Those things are a pain in the ass. :(
 

jagec

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Originally posted by: Fritzo
I know SO many people like that. "It only costs $10 to change your own oil! You can do it in 15 minutes!"

NOT!

Half an hour is more reasonable.
 

0roo0roo

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2bux supertech filter(rated superior to fram) @walmart
~.60cents qt oil after rebate every other week at kragen, or just 1 dollar a qt. 4qts = 2-4bucks.
so no, not 10 dollars to change oil.
 

Fritzo

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Originally posted by: LoKe
Originally posted by: Fritzo
I know SO many people like that. "It only costs $10 to change your own oil! You can do it in 15 minutes!"

NOT!

It can be done that quickly, yes. Unless you're changing the oil on a Mini Cooper. Those things are a pain in the ass. :(

Are you taking into account going out and buying everything?
 

NutBucket

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Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
2bux supertech filter(rated superior to fram) @walmart
~.60cents qt oil after rebate every other week at kragen, or just 1 dollar a qt. 4qts = 2-4bucks.
so no, not 10 dollars to change oil.
5 quarts Mobil1 = $20
OEM Filter = $7

Don't want to know what I'd get charged for that at a shop. I don't trust quick change places.
 

Rock Hydra

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Originally posted by: NutBucket
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
2bux supertech filter(rated superior to fram) @walmart
~.60cents qt oil after rebate every other week at kragen, or just 1 dollar a qt. 4qts = 2-4bucks.
so no, not 10 dollars to change oil.
5 quarts Mobil1 = $20
OEM Filter = $7

Don't want to know what I'd get charged for that at a shop. I don't trust quick change places.

Because I'm a poor college kid, I buy the ~$6 5 quart bottles and 7 dollar filter. I can't afford 20 dollar oil. :(