I pay $32 at my dealer for Mobil 1 synthetic. I get the hook up since I have bought 5 cars from them in the last two and half years.
It would cost more doing it myself............This is how smart the Auto guys are!
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Drive car up on ramps. Remove 4 undertray bolts. Drain oil into container by unscrewing the oil fill cap and removing the oil pan drain plug and oil filter. Screw in new oil filter and drain plug with new $0.50 copper crush washer. Fill with 5 qts and check level.

OP, also remember that your inexperience working on cars with proper tools, AK's DIY on this forum, your love of your car is a much better option than letting some minimum wage careless idiot work on it. They're as likely to screw something up. I never was a car guy before the Z. Now I do almost all my own maintenance and installs and have even helped out other local Z owners. I dropped the transmission in my garage with the help of a buddy and some of his tools (replaced my OEM CSC with Z1's kit). The Z is my DD, so I can't really afford to have downtime on someone else's schedule. Doing the work myself has saved me thousands of dollars in labor, no question.

I just bought 5 quarts of Mobil 1 for $25 at Walmart and got a $12 rebate ;)

Having to buy five cars in three years to get a reasonably priced oil change sounds like a terrible deal :stirthepot:

lol at the nissan dealer where i'm at they charge $35 for synthetic. So i'm geussing synthetic is ok with our cars.

The other big reason for the push to DIY is that you can take the money you would have otherwise spent on labor, and spend it on more mods.

I thought you said you paid $70. What did you get for that if they didn't use synthetic? Full synthetic is what you want. Dino oil isn't bad for it - just not ideal.

The full synthetic was around 70

I may just wait until Dynosty opens up and get it done next week since they are well known for our cars lol I hope they do oil changes as well!! haha

Yeah so $35 was for the blend (aka semi-synthetic). Your use of the term synthetic there was confusing.

u know, dats absolutely fine. there are professional drivers that dont do oil changes on their own cars... more like they've never even tried it.

just because i own a house dont mean im going to go up on the roof and diy my shingles.. :ugh:

step1: go up on roof
step2: replace all shingles
step3: done! :ugh2:

My buddy did that once (he's very handy). Pocketed like $7K for his efforts out of the insurance check for hail damage. And afterward, he vowed never to do that $hit himself again lol

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yah, the pro's make it look too easy! :eekdance:

I have done that 3x now. my family saved a butt load of $$ doing it ourselves. it's not that bad as long as it's not hot as sin or wet and cold.

Diy is not for everyone. Some like to pay for "piece of mind" knowing that someone else "more capable" than they are did a good job. However, I don't trust anyowashing my car (especially HS kids with jewelry all over) because of scratches. Most mechanics get paid by the job, not hour so they cut corners or use "tricks" when they can.

I Diy because, I have the time, I like to know exactly x works or was done, I trust myself, I'm cheap and it saves me $$, because I'm a bad azz that's capable of doing it. There are other reasons but these will do for now.

YzGyz

i diy my oil change because i dont have much free time. i just do it when i can on my free time. i hate making appointments and then work or weather gets into the way and have to reschedule because my Z melts in the rain..