Thread: Wal-Mart breaks your car.

Originally Posted by Bunni

meh, if you have ground clearance on your car, or if your car has the oil filter valve accessible without needing a lift :/

And if you have one of them fancy top oil vacuum suckas to suck the old oil out of the dip stick port. I've got a LOT of tools and i still cannot do my own oil change (though i can replace the filter)

He was talking about the oil sending unit. They are about as hard as changing a head light. As to the oil change its really really easy. I taught the two girls across the street how to change their own oil. All you need is a jack and some normal size wrenches. The one girl wants to learn how to fix all that shit or so she says but oddly enough when im showing her she disappears.

Originally Posted by deathgodusmc

Yeah you really dont save much doing your own oil changes any more. Getting rid of the waste is getting harder to do here. Save the environment but find a hole to pour your used oil in because we wont let companies put in waste tanks. Its a fucking joke any more.

Damn... really? In New York, pretty much any place that will sell you oil and a filter will take your waste oil. I don't know if it's a requirement.

I suppose that there's some convenience stores or dollar stores that'd sell you a quart of 10W-40, and they might tell you to GTFO if you showed up with 6 quarts of nasty oil, but I've never had a problem.

That an auto-parts store which sells oil by the case, 4 brands of filters, and oil catch-pans, wouldn't let you bring back your used oil seems really odd.

Of course, it IS Florida.

Cheers,


AetheLove

Originally Posted by AetheLove

Damn... really? In New York, pretty much any place that will sell you oil and a filter will take your waste oil. I don't know if it's a requirement.

I suppose that there's some convenience stores or dollar stores that'd sell you a quart of 10W-40, and they might tell you to GTFO if you showed up with 6 quarts of nasty oil, but I've never had a problem.

That an auto-parts store which sells oil by the case, 4 brands of filters, and oil catch-pans, wouldn't let you bring back your used oil seems really odd.

Of course, it IS Florida.

Cheers,


AetheLove

LOL yeah florida is getting more and more fucked up. Oil change places wont take your oil, most cities are giving licenses to auto parts shops for the tanks at least around here they aren't, and the fire departments are no longer drop offs for hazardous material. So you have to take it to a dump where they have tanks or to a parts store that been around awhile thats has the tanks. Actually i can only think of 1 store in at least 5 miles that has a tank. Luckily i live by that store.

The only thing i can think of is the county is making money recycling the old oil so they're getting as much of it as they can. Shitty part is most are not like me that keep 3 5 gallon containers to store oil in until i get the time to take it. Most just pour it in back into the bottles and throw them in the trash or dump it in the yard. If you dont keep it simple people aren't going to do it.

Originally Posted by deathgodusmc

If you dont keep it simple people aren't going to do it.

True dat.

Also, for all I know the local shops that accept it just hold it for howeverlong and then make a drop-off at some state/county facility that deals with it in bulk.

So whether there's some complicated process going on behind the scenes is something I don't know. The point though is, exactly as you were saying, that it's simple. I can take my old stuff to where I got the new stuff.

For all I know I could sell it to some recycler (like copper or aluminium). But in quantities that small, I just want it to go away.

Cheers,


AetheLove

Originally Posted by AetheLove

True dat.

Also, for all I know the local shops that accept it just hold it for howeverlong and then make a drop-off at some state/county facility that deals with it in bulk.

So whether there's some complicated process going on behind the scenes is something I don't know. The point though is, exactly as you were saying, that it's simple. I can take my old stuff to where I got the new stuff.

For all I know I could sell it to some recycler (like copper or aluminium). But in quantities that small, I just want it to go away.

Cheers,


AetheLove

Its not complex at all. They have a storage tank in the back. Most are around 250-500 gallons. A truck shows up, hooks a hose to the tank, sucks the oil out, and leaves. Kind of like a porta potty truck except not as shitty smelling.