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Originally Posted by Ricky Bobby
Seems to be 2 people in this thread with stripped drain plug issues when it was done at a valvoline or shop - maybe thats a clue to change your own oil and not deal with the headache
I had my first drain pan stripped a month after I got my license, took my car to a local indy shop because I "didnt have the time" - well they called me and told me the pan was stripped, must have been that way before they changed the oil - I said thats impossible I just changed the oil last year and always torque the plug with a torque wrench - They said well either its gonna drip and leak slowly or you can bring us the new pan ($250) and we'll only charge you half the labor to replace it
Long story short I've been changing my oil ever since
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I've been doing all my work on all my cars myself my whole life because i am too cheap to pay labor and kind of enjoy it. oil was one thing i'd let someone else to do because i figured it's kind of hard to fuck up. Guess i was wrong....
one other thing i let "mechanics" fix was a broken control arm on my z4. i was having too much fun and hit a curb while sliding. control arm was more than my deductible by almost 800$ so i just let insurance deal with it. One day i am driving on a busy street with 50mph speed limit cumming up on a red light. I go to press break and it falls in completely. idiots that replaced the control arm didnt mount the bracket that holds break line right and break line was rubbing against an axle which resulted in a half inch long hole. Lost all break line pressure...