Originally Posted by Red370 $90? jesus, would be easier and cheaper to buy a 5qt jug of RP for $40 and change it yourself! lol..I wouldn't know the first thing
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*Edited to say: Hmm..now that I think about this...if you add in the $ spent at the mall while waiting, it's no longer "really" a $90 oil change, it's even worse for my poor hubby..lol...
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So, race ramps run $300. A drain pan, filter wrench, socket, jugs for hauling it to the service station and such run another, say, $30. Those are fixed costs. A new filter is $10 and the oil, as you noted, is $40. So, my material costs are $50 per oil change, netting a difference of $40 saved per change. That means I won't see any savings until I'm 8 changes in, or about 40,000 miles (assuming an average of 5000 per change). It still seems like a smart thing to do to change it yourself, but realizing I won't see savings for 2.5 years or more makes a $90 change from the dealer start to seem okay to me.
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Side note: Did I read somewhere that royal purple has ester in it too?
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