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Oil change services for my vehicles. Despite doing tons of my own repairs, I hate dealing with the oil. It always gets on the outside of the container and my recycling locations are always full. The service (including oil) used to be about 50% more than the oil I could buy to do myself. It was worth it to me to spend an extra dinner’s worth of money ~4 times a year. But now a service costs at least twice as much as the oil alone, even at independent shops. Plus, I now get oil in slight bulk, so the service is 3x what I pay in oil. I treated myself to a nice catch pan and dedicated funnels as a compromise, still costing less than a service on my first DIY in a decade.
I’m planning on doing this myself now.
My last oil change was $116 with a $15 off coupon.
I can buy the oil from Costco for like $30. A good quality oil filter is 20 bucks.
Even if it takes me a full hour to do, which it will not, I’m getting paid $70 for that hour.
I guess I’m lucky that every auto parts store near me takes used oil for free. I drain my old oil into the “pan,” set it aside and do the oil change, and then i pour the pan of used oil into the now-empty jug that had my fresh oil. I take a sharpie and write OLD on the jug. I set that aside in the shed. Then when it’s time for my next oil change, I grab that jug of old oil out of the shed and take it to the auto parts store where I dump it and then buy fresh oil and a filter – one-stop shopping. Easy peasy.
My local stores are always full and can’t take more. Still doesn’t change how much oil always gets on the outside of the containers