Why change your own oil?

Make sure you check the cap seal when you are buying motor oil. I found the seal broken on one 5 qt. bottle of Pennzoil Platinum I picked up off the shelf at Walmart, and it was full of used motor oil.
 
My previous car -Goodyear put in synthetic blend with a cheap carquest red filter which is made for conventional and up to 5k...if I waited for 10k car would've been screwed...they torqued the drain plug so tight I had to use an impact driver to remove. Never again
 
For me I want it done right and I get a chance to look underneath to see if there are any others issues going on...My 21 Honda HRV is a easy oil change along with the CVT ard the rear Diff....
 
My previous car -Goodyear put in synthetic blend with a cheap carquest red filter which is made for conventional and up to 5k...if I waited for 10k car would've been screwed...

I bought a Honda 30 years ago and it told me right in the manual to change the very cheap $2.99 oil filter every 20,000 miles. I thought that was strange but trusted Hondas judgement and started changing the oil filter every 20,000 miles as suggested. I cut them open and they were clean and in good shape. Honda was right. I’ve done it ever since for a million miles on every car I’ve ever owned and it’s fine. Your car won’t blow up if you run a parts store oil filter for more than 5000 miles.

And oil filters arnt made for conventional or synthetic oil. They don’t care. That’s just a marketing gimmick.
 
Since I twisted on the filters this time, I'm hopeful I'll be able to hand remove them next time. I think oil changes places over tighten plugs and filters. I don't know why they don't use torque wrench for the drain plug.

I don't know why a torque wrench is necessary for that. The clowns that over tighten drain plugs won't use the torque wrench correctly anyway.
 
My previous car -Goodyear put in synthetic blend with a cheap carquest red filter which is made for conventional and up to 5k...if I waited for 10k car would've been screwed...they torqued the drain plug so tight I had to use an impact driver to remove. Never again

It would have been fine.

using an impact wrench on a drain plug is wrong anyways

Agreed. Although I occasionally take my drain plug off with a small impact driver as I usually have it out for removing and installing my undertray.
 
How about needing 2ft breaker bar to get screw off oil pan after Honda dealership did oil change?
A few years ago my wife got a new Chrysler minivan and the first few oil changes were free at the dealer. The first time I went to do it myself I ended up putting a floor jack under the box end wrench on the drain plug to get it off.
 
I just serviced my neighbor's daughter's Odyssey. The plastic shroud around the oil filter uses 3 push pin fasteners; 2 were missing and 1 was broke.

Oil plug was not over-tightened but the cheapie oil filter was. One thing I kinda liked was the reusable plug gasket; the one with the rubber center. I gave it a new Honda warsher torqued to 29 lb/ft.
 
I do it because there's just some times that you need to isolate yourself in the garage with the doors locked, the radio or TV on and spend some quality time with a drink of your choice, your vehicle and some 5W20 or whatever your vehicle's favorite libation happens to be. A couple toots of brake clean can also liven the mood but YMMV.
 
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