Originally Posted by geeb1
I do my own because I don't trust the techs at these places

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My nephew has worked at a couple of these places and now works at a firestone shop in Mobile...I've seen his "oil change and tire technician abilities" and I wouldn't let him work on a bicycle, let alone, my vehicle. He called me one day and said he had changed the oil in my dad's fairly new zero turn mower and it was smoking like crazy. I go over there and asked if he changed the oil or just added oil to it. He said he changed it. I asked him where the oil was that he drained out and he said he didn't drain any out, just put new in it. I told him that was not changing the oil. The kawasaki engine on that mower holds about 2.25 qts of oil...when I pulled the oil cap off, oil poured out. I bet I drained 3.5 to 4 qts of oil out.