Ladies and Girls changing the oil......

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Originally Posted By: ramblar
Originally Posted By: BigJohn
Just wondering how many of you husbands, dads and boyfriends have trained your girls on how to change the oil?

I am proud to say that my 20 year old daughter, a third year student at CU Boulder, buys her own Mobil 1 0w20 and the best premium filter 'on sale' and does her own changes. Oh yeah, she also learned this last year how to jack the car up and change her tires from standard to snow tires.

Who trains their ladies and how many of them do their own work?

PS...my wife knows how to do it, but it is certainly one of those 'honey do's' at my house on her car!!!!


is she single? whats her number
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oh wait...I'm taken.

Ha, Yeah, but Im not, hahaha!
 
Had my daughter do a couple of oil changes and change a tire, but that was as far as it went. She puts gas in it, but that is about all I believe. Hubby takes the cars in for repairs and oil changes. My wife however can't change a tire or oil. I doubt that she could even break the lug nuts loose and I sure wouldn't want to be in the car if she tightened them. She tells me when it is down to a 1/4 of a tank and when it is getting to where it is due for a oil change. She has helped me with repairs both in the house and the car, but not so much since the kids got big enough to be the helper.
 
My wife has no interest in maintaining cars and gets mad at me when I work on our cars. She feels it's a waste of time. I recently paid to have a timing belt and water pump replaced. When she saw the bill she said, "couldn't you do that".
 
You people are all dead lucky. Your wives/girlfriends/daughters actually drive.

Miss Linda has no interest in learning how to steer a vehicle, let alone crawl under one. I firmly believe she thinks my car is somehow semi-alive, and that when I've got the hood up it will someday clamp shut on me like a crocodile on a victim.

At least she understands that mechanical devices need maintenance; she's fine with cleaning and changing the filter on her vacuum cleaner.
 
Originally Posted By: andrewg
Originally Posted By: Pop_Rivit
I'd prefer my wife had it done somewhere rather than roll around under a vehicle herself.

Yep....I don't really want a woman of mine doing that stuff anyway. Not only is it MY JOB, but just the sight of a woman with grease and oil under her nails is somehow really gross to me.


You find it gross. Some find it kinda hot... ;-)

I don't want my wife to change the oil while I'm here to do it, but if I kick the bucket before she does I don't want her to have to depend on pimple-faced minimum-wagers at Jiffy Lube who'll try to up-sell her every way they can. Same for my girl if she moves away from where I live before she gets married (or, God forbid me from strangling him, marries some metrosexual wuss who won't do it himself). Even if they DO choose to go to a shop to have it done, they'll at least know what's involved and what isn't, rather than saying "$75 for a Dr MoJo super-flow backwash treatment? OK, if you say so."
 
Wife? Not a chance.

Older daughter: willing but now has her own SO

Youngest daughter: I'm lucky she knows how to view things outside of her 10' sphere/existence bubble. Oddly, she's was high honors student in high school (11th in class) and is doing very well at college. I wish I could USB being critical of your environment. She doesn't care if stuff adds up. Her battery went dead last night, getting her to describe where she was took at least 5 attempts at getting meaning out of it. How the car acted before the event would have made for comical reading. She would have written it very well.
 
My girlfriend probably knows more about cars than I do. She's ex-Army. She could strip down a Browning, clean it, and reassemble it while I'm still figuring out which end to point at the bad guys.

Some guys get all the luck, I guess.
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I am proud to say that my fiance probably knows just about as much about cars (and certainly more about classic bikes) as I do. She changes her own oil, does most maintenance herself, and can at least diagnose (correctly) things that she may not be able to remedy. She grew up in a family of gearheads and did two vintage bike restos for credit in high school (40-something Harley and 67 Triumph, which she still owns), and she helped her dad do a frame-off of a 68 Chevelle throughout her younger years. Oh, and she can do the same with firearms, and outshoot most of my friends (we both work in federal law enforcement and associate with similar folks).

I did not need much convincing that she was a keeper!
 
Originally Posted By: Benzadmiral
You people are all dead lucky. Your wives/girlfriends/daughters actually drive.

Miss Linda has no interest in learning how to steer a vehicle, let alone crawl under one. I firmly believe she thinks my car is somehow semi-alive, and that when I've got the hood up it will someday clamp shut on me like a crocodile on a victim.

At least she understands that mechanical devices need maintenance; she's fine with cleaning and changing the filter on her vacuum cleaner.


my missus is the same (minus maintaining the household appliances).

she is too scared to drive.

but, sometimes likes handing me tools when i am doing the oil change.
 
I taught Daughter to change oil and the regular checks. Made sure she knew how to check all fluids, wipers, and tire pressure.

Daughter #2 (not related by blood or marriage) got the same instructions with her car. Another Daughter Friend did too. Neither come back for help anymore and I don't know how their vehicles are doing. I hope they are feeling guilty when 5k miles comes and goes with no oil changes.

Wife just expects things to happen somehow. They do.
 
I'm glad my significant other doesn't do the oil changes. I don't want her to know how easy it is when we talk about sharing work around the house.
 
On our first date my now-wife announced she had just changed her oil the day before.

I steered her away from FRAMs though. This was pre-BITOG, 1999, but the "minimopar filter cutup" was online.

I had not yet had the nuts to do it myself, but did over at her house a month later. I gave her ONE drive on ramp, like a redneck promise necklace, and kept the other so if we ever broke up they'd be useless. We still have the ramps.

Fess up, who's crying?
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Then, later, she borrowed my car for the wagon space and jump started a coworker (man's) honda, "they" hooked the cables up backwards and blew the honda's main fuse. My car was undamaged and I even described the probable issue over the phone. She always laughs at my "extra steps" like turning the ignition off on the donor car while hooking the cables up.
 
Originally Posted By: Kestas
I'm glad my significant other doesn't do the oil changes. I don't want her to know how easy it is when we talk about sharing work around the house.


Bingo! I hide underneath the car fairly often. Sometimes I'm just staring at the underside, checking things over and listening to the music on the stereo.
 
Me! In fact my wife who is 32 had to show people at the resturant she used to manage how to jump start a car. Their was not a single guy in the place that could jump start a car or even start a car with a manual transmission! She was going to have them use my car to jump start the other cars but then no one knew how to start it because it was a manual. I was working on her car that night so she took my car to work. I was so shocked to here that it blew my mind.

Most of my firends in real life are just as comfortable jump starting a lear jet as they are a car so it came as a shock to me!What they are teaching males in school these days is scary when most of them cannot start or drive a manual trans and do not know how to jump start a car. I live in a state that has a harsh winter some years and jump start's are common because no one replaces their battery until it fails and they drop fast when it is below 32°F!
 
Originally Posted By: eljefino
On our first date my now-wife announced she had just changed her oil the day before.


...and it was at that moment that you must have decided to go shopping for a ring!
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Great story, thanks for sharing it with us.
 
Originally Posted By: JohnBrowning
Me! In fact my wife who is 32 had to show people at the resturant she used to manage how to jump start a car. Their was not a single guy in the place that could jump start a car or even start a car with a manual transmission! She was going to have them use my car to jump start the other cars but then no one knew how to start it because it was a manual. I was working on her car that night so she took my car to work. I was so shocked to here that it blew my mind.

Most of my firends in real life are just as comfortable jump starting a lear jet as they are a car so it came as a shock to me!What they are teaching males in school these days is scary when most of them cannot start or drive a manual trans and do not know how to jump start a car. I live in a state that has a harsh winter some years and jump start's are common because no one replaces their battery until it fails and they drop fast when it is below 32°F!


See, that's the thing, nobody wants you to know how to do even do the basic maintenence these days. Manufacturers go to extordinary lenghts to discourage DIY'ing; special tools to reset the maintenance minders, no dipstics, claiming lifetime fluids, they really want everybody to think that a car is just an appliance. The problem is that unlike appiances, cars need much more attention and maintenance to keep going, and people that have no clue what it takes to perform certain tasks get hosed at the dealers or independant mechanics.

$1000-$1500 dollar brake jobs, $100 ATF drain & fills that are in fact easier than the oil change, I just hope I can pass my knowledge to my kids some day and that they will have some interest in cars when they grow up.
 
The odds of my wife or daughter changing oil are about the same as them teaching my boy and I how to knit. Not gonna happen.

Not being sexist or exclusive but they have zero interest.

There is however, the mutual appreciation that they have skills we do not have. My wife is a seamstress and can do work with needles or her sewing/embroidery/serger machines I wouldn't know where to begin. We work pretty good as a team.

Example. We just got an old pop up trailer. She's patching up the canvas and I'm taking care of the mechanicals and electrics.
 
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