Great comment, Amen 🙏 @lokirussell5891, ...I totally agree with you. I've been changing mine for years. My son had a Honda Odyssey, he took it to a place called "Grease Monkey" oil change and there must have been monkeys doing the oil change because they stripped out the threads on an aluminum oil pan. I don't let any mechanic touch my vehicles. I generally consult forums on the internet to repair my problems.
I do the same thing. A lazy mechanic will wipe off your old oil filter and over tighten your drain plug plug and add one quart of old oil back to your engine and keep that new quart of oil for his own car
Naa man, this was laziness. The tech pulled one off a window, and instead of making sure it went in the trash, it ended up in his oil fill bucket, and since he's a lazy tech, he didn't look close before filling said bucket with fresh oil and he dumped it in someone's car.
@@ssss-df5qzmy thoughts too, if it went in the top then it would still be in the top. Either that or this engine has some pretty big head drain galleries
I already don’t trust 90% of cars and drivers on the road. I’d prefer not to have to drive with more people doing maintenance that they don’t actually understand
Those things have cam bearing go out and lower oil pressure quite often and they still run fine. That sticker seems like didn’t cover the whole thing and was just a small restriction.
I was wondering about that as well, definitely did some damage driving so much distance like that. How bout that sharpie though, now thats a permanent marker you can trust.
I changed my own oil from the first oil change on my first car EXCEPT two times when I was unable to do it myself. First shop put the drain plug in soooo friggin' tight it took me forever to loosen it. Second time the stealership NEVER CHANGED IT! I had that funny feeling something wasn't right so before I drove off the lot I pulled out the dipstick and it was dirty oil.!!!!!!i
My pops had his drain plug fall out of his Avalon shortly after an oil change. Oil light came on so he shut it down quickly and didn't blow the motor. I had a clutch, master and slave cylinder replaced once and they filled the system with filthy used cruddy oil. Also if you buy a used vehicle from a stealership, check that it has all of its lug nuts before leaving. And if the oem radio is on the floor with a nice head unit in the dash while taking a test drive, the oem will be reinstalled and the nice radio goes to the mechanics new diy shop stereo. Oh oh also check that all the dash lights work and that there isn't black electrical tape over the tpms light. I digress.
"Big O Tires"l eft the oil plug loose on my wife's Lexus. Lost most of the oil over the next week. Almost burned it up. Now she lets me change her oil too.
I went to Jiffy Lube and they didn't empty my old oil, but filled it up anyway. I had twice as much oil as I was supposed to have, and had to change my oil pressure sensor. Now I change my own oil, and I replace everything else that I can.
@@Saint696Angerthat's great and all but trust me one day you're gonna have a major issue no matter how much maintenance you do. Keep doing your own work because ittl prepare you for maybe being capable of doing that work when it happens. I didn't even know how to change brakes when I got into cars and now I can rebuild a block.
@@Kdubz_Auto_HVACI’m trying to get myself down that path too, my main issue stopping me from trying to learn with my car is having limited space (I have to park on the public road, no room in the driveway area) and the common issue of tools but the basic tools aren’t bad it comes to figuring out where I’d be able to jack it up being the main problem with that which goes back to space since it’s on regular residential roads
Rookie move, just put some coolant in the oil. Will settle to the bottom every time it sits and that’s the first thing the pump picks up on a cold start and trashed the bearings. They’ll diagnose a head gasket gone and there’s no evidence.
This has to be intentional! There's no way that was accidentally dropped into the oil filler cap and made it all the way to the oil pan in basically 1 piece.
Recently took off the oil cooler on my 2014 BMW X5 diesel. Glad I did, because one of the plastic pieces that held the built-in thermostat broke off and had lodged itself in the oil flow channel in the cooler. Removed it. No doubt the engine is feeling MUCH better with the improved oil flow because of it!
Exactly what killed my 86 Ford Ranger at 150,000 miles. My sister was driving it, pressure went to zero, and the camshaft seized. According to the mechanic, the oil pick up tube was clogged with gasket material. Changed the oil religiously every 3000 miles.
Form-a-gasket material? Maybe you put a little too much on, and the squeezed out excess found its way there? Not insulting you, just offering a possibility.
@hotrodmercury3941, I'd like to hear that Stang in your pic, breathing! What's messed up is the customer will be back in the shop in a few weeks with "My engine is making a knocking sound!"😄
The one time I went to one of those I found my tranny dipstick resting on something in the engine compartment (2000 miles after the oil engine oil change). Just carelessness (also on my part for not checking sooner).
@@trainluvrI always do my own maintenance. But this one time I had a big trip and zero time and needed brake pads. 1k miles into my trip my brakes failed. Popped the hood and they never replaced my master cylinder lid. I’d went through the desert and everything. Ended up having to replace everything before my brakes was ever correct again. My lines and calipers was full of shit.
But honestly this happens in every form of life. A certain percent of people are just evil. They will do bad things just to be doing them. It’s a sick world. In my case I don’t think it was intentional. But honestly. You never know.
Toyota failed to seal my wife's filter/plug and the car was leaking oil...after an oil change...at a Toyota dealer...where we bought the car. My heart goes out to anyone who relies on the idiots *fixing* things these days.
@@Yahooligan72yup he totally put it there after righting random miles then letting it get stained then not only took it back out but record himself doing so then posted it, that’s how a busy mechanics spends his day
Mechanic here: :( It's not us, it's the lube techs. They'll hire anyone. "Anyone from that ----ing grocery store across the street is qualified to do what you do." -My Boss
I always ask for two stickers, one for the windshield to remind me for the next service and one for the oil pan to remind the service man to remove it the next change
@@Hardworkpays209Has not been in there to long, otherwise the oil would have broke the sticker down. I would say either the guy recording did it a little before smashed the sticker and put it in and or up to 2 or so months tops that it been in there.
They use the dip stick Jimmy. They wrap the tip tip of the dip stick Jimmy and push it through the tube 🤭. And wait for the customer to come back for an expensive job.
Ever since I was a kid, my fascination with toys was to take them apart and put them back together. Fast forward to the technology age, and I started taking apart my phones and computers. When I got my first car(2000 accord coupe), I took it apart and learned as much as I could. Ill be 35 this year and still havent taken any of my cars to a mechanic
A Tahoe came in with little to no oil pressure. When we took the pan off, we found instructions for a Toyota cartridge style oil filter plugging the pickup tube. It had to be intentional.
Either that or some half wit dropped it in the container holding the fresh oil and started pouring the oil before it settled to the bottom (or better yet, remove it! 😂) I've seen apprentices do it at workshops I've been employed at... I was gonna say, I've had a customer bring in a beautiful old Holden HQ Statesman 308/TH400 car with no oil pressure. Pulled the sump while the motor was still in the car to inspect it all and see how far we had to go with things. To my surprise, I found a FULL tea towel all torn up in the sump and minced up through the oil pump. It had been left in there by the last person to rebuild the motor in the 80's or 90's and it ran for a decade or two before it finally became a problem and block the pick up in the sump... It was the funniest thing I"d ever seen. I was a 3'rd it 4th year apprentice at the time and took a bunch of pics to take to trade school to show people- cause I didn't think they'd believe me... 😂😂😂
I started to tell people that all these little things like this are deliberately done by these manufacturers. Part of the Matrix to keep us a consumer. It's also why nothing is made out of strong metal anymore, but rather being made out of plastics etc, garbage.
@Daniel Brealey It's not possible for it to make it to the bottom of the pan, still intact, on those engines. The customer wasn't the first owner and never had any work done to it that required removing the pan, so who knows how long it was in there. We pulled it out and their oil pressure was fine, they were happy to pay for a oil pan gasket job.
Could see someone doing this for a free engine replacement. Not saying the customer intended that or even knew about it, but good on you for catching it and putting it on film
I'm an auto technician. I'm relatively new to the work but I sure as shit ain't stupid enough to do this garbage, and I've already had my Rav4 sent to a more professional local shop before I got the job a good while back. Guess what these 'professionals' did? They locked the damn plastic filter housing on so hard I had to grab the air hammer and break it off. I had genuinely thought they used the impact gun on it, and these were supposedly people who had been in the career 10 - 20 years longer than me with ASE certs. Hand tighten till it don't move, and lube your gaskets, it's not rocket surgery.
Engine rebuilder here, oil passages from the top of the engine leading back down to the oil pan are a half of an inch to an inch in diameter. These are unpressurized wide channels so they can easily pass a sticker through them. Sticker was either stuck to the inside of a funnel or inserted into the oil fill port.
I used to lose the plastic ring from the Castrol GTX bottles in my Ford SB's. After one got past the valve cover baffle and had to remove the cover, I'd always make sure to remove those little rings. I was young, dumb and kinda lazy so it took me a few times to get in the habit.
@@southbound1969 no, i know the brown guy that did it. Had a grin on his face. Doesnt work as a lube tech anymore, also got fired as a paper delivery girl too.
Customer: "Can you guys please make sure you put a mileage sticker on the windshield. You guys forgot my sticker last time." Joe: "Yeah, I'll give you a freakin sticker."
I'm in my 60's. My time is too precious to waste time going to Walmart to buy a case of oil, filter and oil catch, then climb under a dirty car to change the oil, then have to take the old oil to dispose of, when I can drive through Valvoline Oil Service, sit in my comfortable car while someone else does it in 15 minutes for $35 bucks. AND the oil change is entered into the cars maintenance database that my dealer can easily see. Try getting a big warranty job for free with your two-bit receipts and your word that YOU did the oil changes. They'll laugh you out of the dealership. Seriously. Why would anyone do this themselves?
@@Herbie11 It is much better than sitting around watching TV all day. I do my own oil changes, and nothing is ever overtightened. No clips or screws are ever missing, oil is never overfilled, and I enter the data myself into carfax. Oil change places have entered the wrong data into my carfax before, and there was no way to fix that. I hope you at least check the oil level when they are done.
@@Herbie11have you ever checked your oil level after it was changed by those valvoline kids? They always overfill it with at least 1 extra quart above maximum level and it's not the best option for you engine
I got good news and bad news. The oil will do a better job, but you'll burn more of it because it'll actually get to the engine. The sticker blocked the oil, so you now have excessive wear, possible piston slap. Now that the sticker is removed, the oil will burn and create carbon build up and clog your catalytic converter. The real good news is, we know that whoever pulled that sticker to put a new one on, owes you an engine.
Easy to figure out where that came from. It's either the sticker they made during that oil change, or the change after. Likely they made the sticker, lost it, and made a new one. Maybe it dropped into the open oil fill and when it happened, the shop didn't want to say anything because it would have cost them thousands in an engine tear down to get that debris out.
In my 92 Civic years ago, I also had a piece of paper in my tubing, and it was kind of small label to an oil filter. I have no idea how it got in there. But check your pick-up tube! There might be gasket maker in there too from all the times your valve cover been off.
Nonsense, cars a perpetual wear machines something is always going to need a replacement. But I think it's just a smidge wrong to sabotage a customers vehicle in hopes of scamming money out of them.
@Anomaly agreed. I stand corrected. This was more of a sabotage case. I didnt mean that all dealership techs are saboteurs either. Arguably some of the best ones are in dealership shops.
The tech was like "damn I just wrote up that window sticker on that expedition where the hell did I put that thing" *shrugs shoulders and writes another sticker*
I wouldn't even tell the customer. If the motor does next week they will be blaming you. I'd take a picture of it where it was found then another of the writing on it after removing it and make a note that it was found and removed
@@edwardneuman6061 had one hand me some random ass air filter covered in driveway dirt and was told we had to change all our filters... the air filter he handed us wasnt even for the fkn car.
Bro.. I kid you not!! I had that same exact thing happen to me at my old job one day, I was doing a rear main seal on a Tahoe. When I disassembled things and remove the pick up to I have been to glance in it while I was setting it on my cart and noticed a piece of paper behind the mesh screen, that's so crazy to see someone else had the same exact thing happen! Wow! The crazy things we find and see in this line of work I tell you! SMH!!
This is why I do all of my own work, my daughter recently went to change her oil and the oil change place locked her oil filter on so tight she was crushing the filter and had to bring it to the shop near her house for them to remove. That is why she id doing her own oil changes from now on. Most places that do oil changes hire people that could not cut as real mechanic.
I’m a used car mechanic at a dealership (work on traded in vehicles) I literally cuss other techs who have done that every traded vehicle gets an oil change along with everything else to make it lot ready. Absolutely no reason to hulk the fucker on there hand tight until it stops is good also lube the O-ring so it doesn’t get stuck next time.
@@texasmonster1668 Between assholes that should never work on cars and engineers and designers, wtf are they thinking,make mechanics jobs easy not piss us off every time we have to fix what they screwed up. I hear ya.
@@spencerkrake11 Dealers do some shady stuff too to cut costs. I know for a fact that if too many cars come in on certain days for their "complimentary" oil change, nobody's getting oil filter changes that day.
@@illiniwood lol. Toyota dealers keep to schedules. No walkins if it's too busy. Toyota dealers are definitely the ones to go to. Make sure you schedule
Your there, you observe. Could have saved the engine if its not too late now. Be better then anyone knows or expects. Even though no one will thank you, you are a better person. A rule I live by. Keep up the good work.
Seen first hand how this happens … we use to keep our funnels in a bucket with holes in the lid .. sounds like a good idea … but we also had a trash can next to the bucket ….. sure you can figure it out from there … also always tear off all the seal from your oil bottles so they don’t fall into the valve cover when you put in the oil ….. 👍👍
Really ? Because the drain channels from the heads back to the oil pan can be almost 1/2 in. Don’t think a window sticker can pass through a port that size .. but your right most likely someone took off the oil pan and put it in ..😂
This is why I change my own oil. I've worked in shops, I've seen the jugs used to transfer bulk oil from the tank to the car. They sit around in the dirty shop environment collecting debris.
@@jayprimo or it was put there intentionally so the customer would bring it in to be "fixed again" sad to say but this is a racket of sorts to keep you paying them.
@@nicholasholloway8743 A thousand ways to sabotage an engine and this guy put an oil foil into the valve cover in an elaborate attempt to have it end up exactly where it did and HOPE it starves the engine........ OR he just fucked up and didn't look in his jug. Don't be so quick to attribute to malice what is likely stupidity.
Shit that's where I work!! I personally wash the jug out each time as I can see all the dirt and sand pooling at the bottom... I return it clean with a rag over the top every time... 4 years... The other tecs just don't give a shit and don't follow my lead... Nothing like pre filling an oil filter with dirt 🤣🤦
I'm guessing whoever changed the oil took the oil cap off, set the sticker next to it, added the oil, then went "where TF the sticker go?..............f*** it, guess I'm getting another one". Always take inventory of what you took to the job, and what you walked away with after the job.
