Performing any kind of maintenance or repair on your own vehicle can give you a kind of pride that you wouldn’t be able to get from paying someone else, which you probably don’t even know personally, to work on your car or truck. Specially if this work is done correctly and to your own standards. Not to mention the fact that you would most likely be saving your self a good amount of cash on expensive labor. But what if its just a simple oil change? Some might not consider it cost effective and even worth the time to change their own oil. Your only costs for doing if your self would be the motor oil and the oil filter, which by the way you should definitely change the oil filter at every oil change. To me though, time is money and I don’t happen to have all the luxuries that a lube shop is blessed with, such as an expensive car lift that allows you to easily access the undercarriage of any car. It usually takes only 15 to 20 minutes for any lube shop to change out all of your lubricants and have you back on the road. I will say that I prefer the shop to do it, after buying your own oil and filters to do it your self your not really saving a bunch of money. I generally pay a little over $30 to get my oil changed, where as I almost pay the same amount when I buy 5 quarts of oil and a filter for my car.
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