MOTOR OIL ?
After learning a certain oil change facility does not always change the oil filter when doing an oil change I went back to doing it myself. Things have changed on the motor oil shelf. So many choice...
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Mote wrote:
Everyone has a quickie change horror story. I have two friends that had a bad experience. One with Walmart. They drained his transmission instead of the engine and then filled the engine with more oil. He didn't make it to far down the road before the transmission gave out. Walmart did make good on that one. My other friend had his oil changed at a GM dealer. The next day when he pulled out of his garage his saw a large puddle of oil. The tech forgot to tighten the filter. Lucky for him he didn't drive to far after the oil change and was able to tighten the filter and top off the oil.
I realize these occurrences are rare but they do happen.
What you describe is far different from a planned effort to fake oil changes multiple times over years with the same car an no one ever noticed...presumably, it was standard practice and they always faked it on every car that came through....just doesn't add up.
Of course, the fact you included the GM dealer, undermines your premise that it's oil change places...dealer staff typically has the top of the line training and they still made a mistake, so not going to the quickie oil change places isn't the difference.
