Do you change your oil yourself?

[CounterMeasure]

If its under warranty, the dealer does all maintenance. I do this because it keeps the dealer and/or manufacturer from being able to use the "maintenance related failure, no warranty for you!" card. Once the warranty expires, then its all on me.

[Ezekiel2517]

I changed mine for the first time a few weeks ago. It was very easy, excapt I was not expecting how far the oil would shoot out of the drain and I got some on my driveway. Oh well, that is why I should have had more cardbaord underneath. It cleaned up easy enough.

 

I have never in my life paid for an oil change - always have done it myself. Never used a torque wrench or fancy plug - just common sense. Tighten it enough but dont over tighten and strip it or crack it. Hand tighten only on the filter and lube the gasket with some oil before seating it. The Fram ones with the grippy stuff make sure you can get it on good and tight by hand.

 

I took the free oil changes, but to change the oil in this truck with synthetic would probably run $100. I bought several of the 5-qt Mobil 1 jugs when they were running the rebate checks. Paid something like $12 for 5-qts.

 

I have been meaning to ask about the grease zerks. Are the tie rods the only place that gets greased?

[15silver]

I almost always do my own unless the weather sucks when i need it done. I'll be using my 4 free ones first, then switching up to my own schedule. I generally do it at 5-6000km, but with the larger capacity (8L) will be doing it at 10,000km, or the oil life monitor, or 6 months - whichever is sooner. Never hurts to get under the vehicle a couple times a year at least to see whats what.

[Silvern Sentry]

I used to do my own oil changes but with quicklube places and stuff all over I have not in about 10 years. Not that I can't or don't want to. I just figure for the mess and getting rid of the used oil its worth my 29.99 to have someone else deal with that. I watch them like a hawk though and never let them try to upsell me.

 

 

 

If its under warranty, the dealer does all maintenance. I do this because it keeps the dealer and/or manufacturer from being able to use the "maintenance related failure, no warranty for you!" card. Once the warranty expires, then its all on me.

 

It is always nice to throw them the business to if they treated you well too. I like my dealership and have a good relationship with them so even bring in doughnuts for sales, service & parts departments when I go, hey I just got a free service why not. Sometimes $25 in doughnuts will buy a lot more good will down the road.

[Badass69]

 

I have been meaning to ask about the grease zerks. Are the tie rods the only place that gets greased?

Yes the tie rod ends are all that you can grease. I find a lot of dealers don't grease them either... just like how they only hit the easy ones on the front ends that were fully greased. I didn't do the "free changes"... going to town for them to make a mess of my truck is a lot larger inconvenience than the 15 minutes it takes me in my shop to do it...

 

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[scott.moody.9401]

When you use the quick oil change places, after its done, make sure you crank the engine, then let it sit for a minute BEFORE you let them show you the oil level on the dipstick. That way the filter is full and not empty when they check the oil level in the pan.

 

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[buck_i]

My dealer has free oil changes and tire rotations for life.

[Dunc]

if so do you:

 

1) Use the original drain plug?

2) Use a magnetic drain plug?

3) Use a Fumoto easy drain plug?

4) Use a ez-drain drain plug?

 

 

For years I used a magnetic drain plug. But I heard of items 3 and 4 and thought I might give them a try.

 

What say you?

I use the EZ drain valve with the 90 degree fitting. Have had no issues at all over the past 25k miles with it. I will definitely buy them for all my cars in the future. Sure it drains slightly slower, but there is zero mess and no tools needed. I just open the valve and go do other stuff in the garage or inside for a little bit.

[Dnt]

See no real need for changing the factory drain plug. I buy the filter (Wix) and M1 at wally world and have my local small oil change place do the work. $20.00 for the labor and oil disposal. See no real need for me to crawl around under there. However I do want to make sure the M1 and good filter are used so this is my system.

How long are you guys going on oil changes? Do you think the DIC does a good job of gauging the interval? Got 1500 miles here and oil change counter is at 79% which if my math is correct (1500 divided by 21% = 71.43 miles per percent x 100 percent equals 7143 miles) means it will be at zero at approx 7000 miles. I have done a very large amount of remote start and city driving "stop and go" plus pulling my trailer so I guess the silly thing figures all that into its equation? Check out these pics. This 6.2 with 8spd is a real gas miser I can hardly believe how good it is!

[Silvern Sentry]

How long are you guys going on oil changes?

 

Call me ridiculous but I like to change my oil as much as possible, every 6 months even if not at mileage.

 

Anyone else do this?

[Easymoney]

I change the oil on my truck every 5k miles. I use the factory filter and mobile 1 oil. I would also change it once a year if I didn't drive enough miles a year for the light to come on.

[redwngr]

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How long are you guys going on oil changes? Do you think the DIC does a good job of gauging the interval?

The beauty of the OLM is that the change interval will vary with how you are using the truck.

 

I usually do it at the first convenient time after it gets below 20%.

[Dnt]

Thanks for the input. I may go ahead and do the first oil change around 5000 miles. What do you guys like for the oil filter? I read an article somewhere that said some aftermarket filters do not contain the proper check valve inside the filter and could damage your engine?

[beetle]

 

Call me ridiculous but I like to change my oil as much as possible, every 6 months even if not at mileage.

 

Anyone else do this?

 

No, not ridiculous........I do mine even sooner sometimes, all depends on what type of driving I do, lots of stop and go or not getting up to temp gets done sooner. I've drained and looked at the oil under those conditions, yikes!

[Badass69]

 

Call me ridiculous but I like to change my oil as much as possible, every 6 months even if not at mileage.

 

Anyone else do this?

 

And just think.... my OLM hit 0% a little while ago and what did i do? Reset it and keep driving.... oh the humanity! Lol. I run expensive synthetic in this bucket and I have tracked every single oil change from infancy with analysis..... i'm not worried about my oil too much.