Than taking your truck to the dealer for an oil change and acting like they should...
1. Have the filter
2. Have the oil
3. Know where the filter is

Yes, I have a sadistic sense of humor

 

Did they get the hood open?

 

I am already amused that anyone would ever take their truck (regardless of year) to a dealer for an oil change.

 

The saddest and most dis-heartening story I've ever read here was a story that was posted probably a few years ago by another member. I wish I remember the specifics, and I apologize if I get this wrong. From what I could recall, somebody was traveling in their stock F-1/F-100 and they had a problem out on the highway, I'm thinking near ?Louisville. They needed to find a garage because it wasn't a thing that could be fixed on the roadside. They couldn't find a repair shop. Then they spotted a Ford dealership and reasoned that a Ford dealership should certainly be able to help them work on their Ford truck. The dealership mechanics (all bored as hell from working on late-model modern stuff) swarmed around the truck and were more than willing to fix the problem. The service manager (or somebody above him) refused to let them work on the truck because it was too old or whatever, insurance issues, etc. It was kind of heartbreaking.

Yeah, back to the original post, sometimes that kind of backfires. I remember one day a guy at an Advance asked me if there was anything else I needed for my modern truck. And I said "not unless you have a wheel cylinder for a 49 Ford truck" laughingly. He clicked around on his computer and said "Yep, we have em in stock".

 

Yeah had to show them how to open the hood. As for changing my own fluids, that would also include disposing of said fluids, responsibly. The cost/time to do that is more expensive than the $20 my dealer charges me.

 

$20 for an oil change and filter and I would have them do it for me too. I would think they would take extra care with an older vehicle just because it was something cool to work on.

 

Here we can just drop the used oil off at a couple of the local parts stores. There is also a recycling business in town.

Me? I run it in the deuce and a half. It likes it, especially mixed with a little gasoline.

 

I guess I wasn't clear...I understand that many people do not have the facilities or desire to change their own oil. My point was, why take the truck to a "dealer" when there are so many other, less expensive, alternatives? I don't know how the "stealerships" operate in your area but around here you pay a BIG price for "factory authorized/OEM" oil and filters not to mention the $20 recycling fee. I'll carry my jug down to the O'Reilly store and recycle it for free and spend my savings on a better quality oil and filter.

 

Since I buy all my oil in 5 qt jugs from WalMart they are more than happy for me to just drop the used oil back with them....in the 5 qt jug marked "USED OIL" with a sharpie....OH, and be very quiet when you tip toe to the edge of the last roll up door and quietly sit the jugs down and RUNNNN!!!

 

My county government recycles for free. They will even unload it from your vehicle and put it in the recycle container. I dropped off 8 quarts yesterday. The only problem is they are only open 8-4:30 weekdays so I did it on my lunch hour.

 

Guys and girls, the people who take that used oil are not doing you any favor. They're probably getting $.50 cents per gallon for it. At least that is what we were getting for it in bulk as late as 2010, on site pickup by their trucks in OH. Here in TN we pay $.10 per container recycling fee when we buy new oil.

Edit: That may be $.02 cents per container recycling fee. I don't have any receipts to check.

 

I take mine to a small shop with a new filter and the oil, he puts in on his lift and changes it for $12 and recycles the oil. He also checks/fills all the tires and filters and doesn't try to talk me into any unnecessary bs. Takes all of about 10 minutes.

 

Haven´t done it, but thought of it more than once. LOL

 

I change my own oil & filter on all my vehicles,this way i use what kind of oil & filter that i want & not what they give me & i do not pay any shop & disposal fee,when i am done i take the old oil & filter to ADVANCE AUTO PARTS & they dont charge anything

 

There was a discussion a while back on another board about modern shops not wanting to work on old vehicles. One point was the new ASE techs don't have an idea of how to work on an older vehicle that doesn't have a information port they can plug their diagnostic equipment into. Second, since they don't know much about older vehicles and their sometimes more complex designs, like shoe brakes with all the clips and springs as opposed to caliper brakes with a couple of bolts, it takes longer to do the work and it's hard for the shops to use a rate book to figure out what it will cost.

But third was the biggest. Many shops refuse to work on older vehicles because after 40, 50, 60 years even if the car is a complete restoration there is are 40, 50, 60 year old parts through out the vehicle. If the shop works on the back U-join and in the process jostles another part of the vehicle and a leak develops the owner of the vehicle will accuse the shop of causing the problem. We all know old cars and trucks are made of up parts with leaks waiting to start. I know this happens. I worked with a bodyman who repaired the rear quarter panel of a customer's car and the guy came in the following week because their was a problem with the opposite front quarter of the car. The guy argument was that the bodyman must have caused the problem because it wasn't there before he brought it into his shop.