It lets me add oil changes to FordPass, and they show up on the vehicle history. I just record mileage and price. I've changed my own oil for many years, and no dealer has ever questioned it.
Read the Magnuson Moss act. You can do your own service and use what ever oil and filter you want. Doesn't need to be a certified service place. As long as you follow recommend service intervals and material specifications. Also if something goes wrong they have to prove what you did caused the problem.
between materials and beer, it’s probably no more expensive then doing it myself,
FWIW "The Works" comes with synthetic blend. I prefer full synthetic in my EcoBeasts. Dealership price is much higher for synthetic.
This is completely WRONG.
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Usually bigger engines have bigger oil pans. My 2018 Mustang GT was a $100 oil change that required 10 quarts of oil. Yes, 10 quarts!
Makes me wonder what kind of autos y'all have owned.I think people assume that the less cylinders it has, either 1. the less oil it will take (false) or 2. the less complicated and precise it will be (also false) or 1 and 2 together.
But IDK, seemed like bait to me
This how i am now as well.I don't do my own oil changes anymore than I would change my own tire if I am in a populated area. I pay something like $5 a month for some other guy to come out and do it while I sit in the A/C or heat. If I am in the boonies then I would roll up my sleeves out of necessity. I use to be all about "if you love your car you do it yourself" - but the older I got...
Your not the only one. I'd be willing to bet half the people (I'm being kind here) driving have never looked under the hood of what their driving.
Very unusual. Your 2018 was an outlier.
Chevy's, Ford's, Mercury's, GMC's, Honda's, Toyota's, Chrysler's, Jeep's.
This is totally incorrect; if you do your own service, just keep the receipts and document the date, the mileage, and what you did.
Not sure age has anything to do with self-servicing vehicles; it is more of how life has treated you up to this point. I'm 75 and still perform the service on all of my vehicles and hope to be able to do so for a while yet. I will admit that handling that spare tire on the back of the Jeep is getting a bit tiresome.
The place I've taken my autos for the past 4 years has cylinder specific pricing. $49 for 4cyl. $69 for 6 cyl. and $89 for you guessed it, an 8 cylinder. They don't advertise V10 prices, but I'd be willing to bet if you drive up in a V10 R8 or Viper, you'd pay $109. You can google every make model of vehicle and I'm willing to bet more oil is required with the more cylinders you have. Take it up with the lube center if you contest their marketing reasons, but I'm sure that's their reason for pricing as well. Based on my past personal experience with owning 35 different vehicles, bigger engines yield bigger costs for oil changes. Not because of the difficulty in changing it, but the actual cost of oil itself.
An additional $20 for another quart or two seems a bit excessive to me. True there might a little higher cost to dispose of the extra quart but not enough to matter it seems to me.
