Oil Change? What have things come too!

Sadly, as a teen, we'd dig a hole in the ground, and, well, you know. My dad would dig a hole with his CAT dozers, then back over the hole, then change the oil...I drive by buildings and such to this date and comment "that's where he changed the dozer oil...little do they know".
 
mrsrobinson said:
Sadly, as a teen, we'd dig a hole in the ground, and, well, you know. My dad would dig a hole with his CAT dozers, then back over the hole, then change the oil...I drive by buildings and such to this date and comment "that's where he changed the dozer oil...little do they know.
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Well... it is where the oil came from
 
There's a big church in Richmond he did the excavation for in 1985 I think. I was working with/for him then and did many CAT dozer oil, and truck oil changes. If they ever start shooting for some food, up through the ground will come a bubbling crude.
 
mrsrobinson said:
Sadly, as a teen, we'd dig a hole in the ground, and, well, you know. My dad would dig a hole with his CAT dozers, then back over the hole, then change the oil...I drive by buildings and such to this date and comment "that's where he changed the dozer oil...little do they know.
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We used to do that too, sometimes just pour it on the driveway, it was OK then, the towns used to oil the gravel roads to keep the dust down. If anyone knew any better the word sure didn't get around;)

Kinda like dumps. Up here every township had a dump. They were always by some high ground with a swamp down below. Dump the stuff, then push it over the edge into the swamp. All the contaminants would leach out into the ground water or often into the little creek that drained the swamp. We probably sent lots of stuff all the way to the Gulf of Mexico.
 
If you have a BMW, you should check out their 3 year unlimited mile oil service package. I bought it for my X5 Diesel. It was $199.00 for three years, unlimited mileage oil changes. I think they may have recently raised the price to $225.
 
mrsrobinson said:
Sadly, as a teen, we'd dig a hole in the ground, and, well, you know. My dad would dig a hole with his CAT dozers, then back over the hole, then change the oil...I drive by buildings and such to this date and comment "that's where he changed the dozer oil...little do they know".
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Just putting it back where it came from. :)


ETA I knew I should have read to the end of the thread .
 
I have always done my own oil changes. I never have had an issue or a stripped drain plug. One time the dealer did the oil as it was part of the warranty job they were doing. Next time I went to change the oil, sure enough the plug was stripped. Went into the parts department to get a new plug. The guy behind the counter started giving me shit about taking it to the cheepo lube and assumed they stripped it. I want off on the guy and told him that their idiots did it.

The dealers do not put the smartest guys in the oil change bay...
 
El Capitan said:
To all the tree huggers out there. Oil is a natural substance.
Electricity is not.
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I do all my own oil changes - I enjoy doing it and knowing it it done right. The times I have had others do it, even the dealership they somehow are unable to put all the screws and clips back on the underpan correctly. I have this habit I learned from my father, I use a sharpie and put the date along with miles/hours on every filter etc when I change oil, filters whatever. In a moment of lack of judgement, I let Firestone change the oil in my old Lexus ES. They insisted they changed the filter, but amazingly they had hand writing just like mine and knew the exact date and mileage of the last oil change and used the exact NAPA filter that I did. I couldn't prove that they skipped the oil also, but - never again!
 
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