Title says it all. I'd do it, but I don't have the tools/space to do it.

i'm very partial about where i take my car, usually i like to do everything myself. but i've been taking it to walmart lately mainly cause they do everything and it costs me the same as doing it myself since i use synthetic. and i usually check everything they did once its done and make sure myself. so yea. or speed lube isn't bad. been there before too.

yeah, I go to walmart...super tek oil change is like 13 bucks

god, I would never trust wally world with my car. I make the trip back home to St. Louis to have either a dealer or a mechanic I trust do all of my work.

Yuck....Super Tech oil? I do my oil changes my own. Always have, always will. $14 or so at O'Reilly's for a Wix filter and 4 quarts of Valvoline oil. Then i know what kind of oil is going in my car, and i know i am using one of the best filters available, not whatever $2 cheapie they had laying around.

But, if you don't have the time/space/tools to do it, at least make sure wherever you take it uses a name brand oil.

Yeah, I'm lazy and don't like getting my car's oil changed very often. So I take it to Wal-Mart and have them put Mobil 1 synthetic in it... My oil was changed last month, and that was the first time since June 2003.

I would trust wally world just as far as I would any dealers. Dealers are the biggest crooks ever.

Yup....dealers rip you off. Their labor cost and part prices are often much higher than an independent shop, while the quality of the work is often lower. Not all are bad...just quite a few. Only thing worth going to the dealer for is a new car or parts that you can only get from the dealer. JMO, but then again i am really anal about doing all or as much of the work as i possibly can on my own vehicles....been a long time since i've gone to the a shop.

And another great thing, half of the dealers shops, especially like tractor dealer shops are too cheap to pay for a real mechanic, so they hire a jackass that knows less than you, and he uses a book to diagnose the problem which takes him forever because he has to change 4 or 5 things before he fixes the right one, but that is ok, the shop isn't losing money because even though most of the stuff they replaced was ok you still pay the parts and labor. Oh well, I am just bitching and making sentences that run on for friggin ever so I will shut up.

well my dealer does all the warranty work, since it's, well, free for me and I once paid for an oil change there, was a bit expensive. But there's a mechanic back home that my family's been going to for years that we trust and they do all my other maintenence.


i just wouldn't want wal mart touching my car even if it was to rotate my tires

I hear you, I wasn't trying to standup for walmart by any means. I always get out the old four way after anyone messes with my tires. I had a front tire come off of a tractor once, and it is not a fun ride.

I would never trust Wal-Mart with anything in my car. I am speaking for my hometown, because I really haven't heard much about the one here. Basically, when the mechanic finds a way to improperly reattach an oil filter (which is pretty hard to do), which then causes your car to overheat and lock up due the the lack of lubricating oil and completely destroying the engine, I think something is wrong. When the "mechanic" cannot properly remove a wheel from a car, much less change the tire off of a rim and balance it, because the "lug bolts" (Thats right, not the nuts, the bolts, the part that the wheel slides on to) keep shearing off, it tells me that Walmart is challenged in finding mechanics that are willing to work for $6 and hour.

Autozone is worse because the only people that they hire are those that couldn't cut it at Wal-Mart. As I said before, this is only the case for my hometown, which has 1 walmart, 1 Autozone, and an abundance of Red Neck idiots that like to pretend that they are on the top of the world because they are a "mechanic."

Every O'Reilly Autoparts store has several tool sets that you can rent. You pay a substantial amount of money to borrow the kit, but when you return it as it was when you got it, EVERYTHING is returned (credit cards come in handy here). You aren't out a penny, but you have sucessfully done a job you can be proud of, and not one that you have to file a lawsuit to WalMart about.

At least it was a tractor going slow speeds and not a car...still i'd imagine it would scare the shit out of you.

One of my friends took his truck to a tire shop back home, and a had a flat fixed. The next day he asked me what the weird knocking noise coming from his truck was....i thought there was a problem with a u-joint or the rearend. Got to looking at it and ALL the lug nuts had fallen off the wheel where he had the flat tire fixed! Amazing that it somehow stayed on the truck without falling off.

You have to elaborate. I just fell out of my chair laughing after reading this.

Last year I had a wheel come off my truck while I was doing about 62 mph I somehow kept it under control, but I have no idea how. It was a pretty damn scary ride. I had just had new tires put on, and they hadn't tightened the lugs down all the way.