Are these things the norm now?
My normal mom and pop place for oil changes was closed so I went to Jiffy Lube, where they said they now suck out the oil from the top through an extractor so they don’t strip drain plugs or leave out oil plugs, or drain the wrong oil. On one end, you have one job, so do it right. And on the other, Ive spent time working in these places and have seen a fair share of the aforementioned fuck ups.
Anyway, they were only able to get 3.25 “quarts” out of the dip stick, and when I asked them they said “oh no the machine measures in liters” and it’s actually 4.75 quarts. But liquid liters and quarts are pretty fucking close and we’re taking 2/10 of a quart in conversion. They put 5.3 quarts back in and of course overfilled it. But they still wanted to charge me for a 5.3 quart oil change. How messed up is that?
Granted, you’re not going to get everything out during a regular pan plug drop oil change but I recall the full capacity specs being pretty close. If they only sucked out 3.43 quarts then that’s only like 65% of an oil change.
Anyway, just a rant posed as a question. Now I know better and will wait until my preferred place is open.
My normal mom and pop place for oil changes was closed so I went to Jiffy Lube, where they said they now suck out the oil from the top through an extractor so they don’t strip drain plugs or leave out oil plugs, or drain the wrong oil. On one end, you have one job, so do it right. And on the other, Ive spent time working in these places and have seen a fair share of the aforementioned fuck ups.
Anyway, they were only able to get 3.25 “quarts” out of the dip stick, and when I asked them they said “oh no the machine measures in liters” and it’s actually 4.75 quarts. But liquid liters and quarts are pretty fucking close and we’re taking 2/10 of a quart in conversion. They put 5.3 quarts back in and of course overfilled it. But they still wanted to charge me for a 5.3 quart oil change. How messed up is that?
Granted, you’re not going to get everything out during a regular pan plug drop oil change but I recall the full capacity specs being pretty close. If they only sucked out 3.43 quarts then that’s only like 65% of an oil change.
Anyway, just a rant posed as a question. Now I know better and will wait until my preferred place is open.