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Jiffy Lube is owned by Shell and they donate 54% to republicans.
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Great Canadian Oil Change is owned by an American company called Valvoline and they donate 100% to democrats.
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Mr. Lube is Canadian-owned and operated.
Look for a local independent garage if you can. Supporting Canadian business is good. Supporting Canadian small business is better.
And a good local mechanic is worth his weight in gold! It took about a year in our current city before we found “our guy” but we’re customers for life now.
You gotta have a guy. When we moved out of Toronto 7 years ago, I knew I’d miss friends, but the thing I was most upset about was having to leave the mechanic I’d had for 25 years. Vito, you’re still the man.
Yeah, you definitely might have to shop around a bit to find a good mechanic, but they’re worth it.
Exactly! My preferred way to go.
This all the way - if you have a car, you gotta have a guy. Friends don’t let friends take their car to Crappy Tire or Mr Lube.
Maybe do it yourself? It’s the easiest car maintenance you can do next to maybe filling your blinker fluid or checking your mirror pressure.
Not everyone has a suitable spot to do vehicle maintenance. Not exactly easy if you have angled driveways, or park on the street, etc.
And for warranty purposes, you want receipts and a “fall guy” if anything goes wrong.
You can document your own work and keep your oil / oil filter / crush ring receipts, but some dealerships will fight you on it.
Somehow I missed the fluid part and was very confused at the mirror pressure 😂
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Sometwo they missed a thing.
Fyi for anyone afraid to change their own oil for fear of dumping it all on the driveway, just look up a (Canadian manufactured) “oil transfer pump” (manual or electric) and ensure the tube it comes with will fit and reach down to the bottom of your oil tank through the dipstick. Then pump it out into a container. Afterwards you can take the bolt out and get anything that may be left, in my experience a drop or two. Also saves me from having to jack up my car to fit the tub under, I can use a shallower pan.
Nice one.
I have a ball-cock stopper in my drain plug with a tube that I put into my oil catch pan for one vehicle. The other vehicle, I don’t like how far it sticks out and I’m worried it will catch on the road if I bottom out or go over a large bump. (It’s a vintage Porsche 914).
n e v e r get your oil changed at the dealer or at a quick lube place. Never. Stop it. Please.
They don’t care about your car, they will round off your drain bolts, and they will charge you up the ass for it and give you trash quality oil and filters (if they even change your filter at all).
I got an “end of warranty” inspection at my Hyundai dealership thinking it’d just be a quick thing where they look it over for anything they could cover under warranty, and they changed my brand new oil and oil / cabin and intake air filters without asking me first, and charged me $400 for the pleasure.
My independent mechanic charges me $110 for an oil and oil filter change using high quality synthetic oil. He tells me what he puts in/on the car, and he shows me on the car if there’s anything I need to know.
Also, changing your air filters is dead easy on most cars. Just do it yourself, and check them every 6 months.
p.s.: transmission fluids are not forever fluids. Get your CVT fluids changed every 100,000 km.
And this is what you get with a chain anyway
I’ll take the parking lot of Crappy Tire and a 17mm wrench over a Canadian quick lube place. Shoddy work and shady upsells is the nature of that kind of business.
Changing your own oil isn’t an option for everyone, but don’t risk an engine at these places either. It’s not even cheaper than grabbing your own oil and filter retail and telling an independent shop to do it.
Also great Canadian oil change fucks your vehicle up 80% of the time you go there. The one here does anyways.
If you have a place you can do it yourself, just do it yourself, it’s super easy.
I’ll change your oil using my asshole for nine sheckels and a tuppence.
