Maybe it's just me, but I thought it was funny...

[Mark Barnes]

Pictures LEAVING my local oil change shop this morning. Someone was gonna have a real bad, expensive day. Followed the oil for about 150 yds. on the road before it stopped. Sadly, didn't see the poor bastard, or his/her car. Still made me laugh.....

 

[MarPar]

 

[440Coronet500]

Oops, someone is going to be replacing an engine! Another reason I change my own oil. 440'

 

[hunt2elk]

Somebody forgot to pull the rubber gasket off the block from the old filter I bet.

 

[69Bee]

My experience was not as bad; new Toyota Tundra with a couple free oil changes (yea, I know...), one or two in, on the 30 mile trip home, I kept hearing a noise when I would hit a bump. The driveway entrance was a 10 degree angle, and it really scraped there. Turns out, the tard that did the oil change didn't put any of the skid plate bolts in, and it was just hanging from the two front hooks. Called, and raised hell and was told to come back the next day, and get new bolts. they offered a few more free oil changes which I declined and said that I will do my own.

 

[69a100]

Oh man, that's not good!

 

[Kern Dog]

That is some really dirty looking oil for a vehicle that supposedly just had NEW oil put in.

 

[kiwigtx]

It might have been the Oil Recovery tanker leaving the shop with his valve open.

 

[moparedtn]

That is some really dirty looking oil for a vehicle that supposedly just had NEW oil put in.

Yep. How do we know that trail wasn't headed INTO the place?

 

[Big Bad Dad]

My sister had a brand new Subaru in the early 90s. Her first oil change at one of these quick lube places ended up with a loose drain plug falling out and killing the engine that only had a few thousand miles. They had to replace the engine.

 

[JackR]

My last oil change...grand Cherokee. Picked it up and drove it two blocks home. Yelled a the kid for having an oil leak in his car as I saw oil under my Jeep. Next day driving to work in the dark kept smelling oil burn. Getting off the freeway was in a cloud of smoke at the red light. The oil filter sits on top of the engine. They didn’t install the o ring. Lost 3 of the 6 quarts.

 

[multimopes]

Many moons ago, I bought an old 64 A100 van that had been a heating company's service truck. It had a 170 slant 6 and a 3 speed in it. It was confirmed that the idiot's at the local dealership, who I worked for 10 years or so later, had forgotten to add the new oil to the engine after an oil change. The other idiot , who was the service man who used the truck every day, didn't pay any attention to the brightly glowing "low oil Pressure" warning light. After he did a few service calls he called his boss on the radio and reported it. The boss called the dealership and it was quickly confirmed that the new cans of oil were still on the floor where the vehicle was serviced. His boss called the the oil service driver in the truck and relayed the message to shut it off and wait to be towed back to the dealer so they could complete the oil change. The truck was somehow still okay and lasted at least 10 more years on the job. That's a testimony to a well built engine, I don't think a newer vehicles motor could survive such treatment!

 

[64BEL]

My sister had a brand new Subaru in the early 90s. Her first oil change at one of these quick lube places ended up with a loose drain plug falling out and killing the engine that only had a few thousand miles. They had to replace the engine.

Exact same thing with me - sister, Suburu, loose or unistalled drain plug, ruined engine with only a few thousand miles = new engine paid for by the garage.

 

[Mark Barnes]

Yep. How do we know that trail wasn't headed INTO the place?

Entry is from the rear. That's the front door I took a picture of. I asked the dorks inside what happened, and they said some woman came in with a GM vehicle that has a 10mm drain plug, which was stripped. Even so, THEY LET HER DRIVE AWAY LIKE THAT. She didn't make it a full block down the street...

 

[Kern Dog]

Entry is from the rear.

 

[Mark Barnes]

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Kinda saw that coming. (No pun intended)

 

[khryslerkid]

One dealership I knew of did a oil change on a brand new chevy van back in the 80's and didn't add new oil. I knew the van owner also and he didn't make it home. Had it towed back to the dealership and they replaced the engine. He stopped by our shop a couple of days later and stated that his new engine didn't sound just right. After inspecting his new engine we discovered the dealership had replaced it with a junkyard engine. He had a hell of a time getting that all straightened out. Took them to court and ended up getting another new van. What a bunch of crooks that place was.

 

[Basket case]

That's what minimum wage gets you. Change your own oil. Spend 30 minutes checking your own vehicle.

 

[Triplegreen500]

The truck was somehow still okay

No "somehow" about it - that's the Leaning Tower of Power!!

The only Mopar engine I love more than a slant six for indestructability, is the 4.0 Jeep inline six. Un-stoppable. I bought a '92 4.0 Cherokee years ago for $400, had a hair over 300k on it at the time. Dead miss in the engine. No noise, but a dead miss. Did the usual - plugs, wires, cap rotor...nada. Compression check - #1, ZERO. Didn't even twitch the gauge. Stopped there and pulled the head...hmm. There's the lower half of the rod looking at me. Found the rest - and the piston parts - in the pan. Pulled a rod/piston setup out of a used engine I had. Ball-honed the bore to get most of the scratches out. Put new rings on the used piston. Slapped mains/rods all the way back since I had the pan down, hi-volume oil pump, didn't bother resizing anything to fit, buttoned it up (start to finish, hand tools in an un-heated garage, on a Saturday), filled it with oil, and drove it for 12 years till the body rusted away and a buddy bought it for a trail rig. Still running. 60psi at a hot idle. Got a half-second BRAAAP on startup because I never resized that rod, but that's it. Didn't burn oil, didn't drink oil, didn't leak a drop of anything, ran like a champ and got me damn near 20mpg with nearly 400k miles on the clock. I still miss that truck.

 

[Don Frelier]

Just sad to me.
I would have run that oil another 1,000 miles easy.