Car Oil Changes

[JD7.62]

I have heard now days you can go with changing the oil once every 5000 miles, but for some reason I just don't like stretching it that far out. I guess I might be old school maybe but I still change the oil once every 3000 and I always use Pennzoil, and even though I'm not sure I save any money I still do it myself.

I save about $10-15 per car and do them the same time. Its easy but in the scheme of things its not really worth the work to save the $80 a year for our two cars. Its really just a good excuse for me to crack open a cold one or six.

Ive never really worked on cars before and never had any one show me how but in the past year Ive probably saved some BIG bucks doing simple maintence/repairs/upgrades my self. Ive replaced rotors and pads, belts, sparkplugs/wires, under drive pulley, struts, fuel filters and few other things. Ive also installed some upgrade parts just as header and complete exhaust system from header back, underdrive pulley, short shifter, shifter bushings, ad more. All these cost me nothing more then materials and a couple cases of beer. If I had paid some one, geez I wouldnt even want to know how much all that would have cost! The going rate for labor is about $65-75/hr at most places!