My recent "Toad" experience

Acampingwewillgo wrote:
Just to answer the question, they are the only ones that have changed the oil for at least the last 5 years....for the price, it wasnt worth doing it myself. I think the idea that they have continually over torqued the plug is Right on the money. When I got the car home and crawled underneath, I could see that the last time they changed the oil, they had put some type of silicon sealer around the plug which says to me, exactly what was commented on above. That was one of my comments as to being old enough to have done plenty of my own oil changes yet I never stripped out a plug either.
I appreciate the comments....Thanks

Agree with you on this, I have been doing oil changes on all my cars/trucks and never worn out or broke a drain plug. My truck does not use a copper gasket but my car does, I use a torque wrench on the car but not on my truck.


i hope they never use air tools, that has way too much torque. Sounds like they did the damage.