CyberShark

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Black01Tibby)</div><div class='quotemain'>If I go to WalMart and ask them to change my oil over to synthetic will they do it or hastle me about it?</div>

They'll do it for you with no hassle at all. I just got mine done with Mobile1 synthetic oil.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (alex01tib)</div><div class='quotemain'>one of my friends last semester went to walmart to get oil and they drained it but never put new oil in... she got on the highway to go home and her engine blew up...</div>

That's nothing, one of our workers lost a whole truck..WalMart had to pay the owner $10,000 which was the value of the vehicle..very strange but true story..it's been years since I've worked there though

Pyro

what kind of oil should i put in, i live in alberta so should i go with 5w30 or 10w30

OdessitPashka

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Pyro)</div><div class='quotemain'>what kind of oil should i put in, i live in alberta so should i go with 5w30 or 10w30</div>

5w30 if you have under 50k mi, 10w30 if you have over 50k mi

Cyber, how did the guy loose the whole truck??

CyberShark

I have no fricken idea how the truck disappeared, I only know that a worker moved the truck to the parking lott when we were done changing the oil right before closing and it disappeared. I had only been working for a week when this happened. Stranger still, they didn't fire the guy who "lost" the truck. They moved him to another area and only give him a write up. I really didn't pry to much into as I was a new worker. WalMart was trying to keep the incident on the downlow so it was taboo to ask to much about it. I was very surprised to find out that the incident didn't even come out in the paper.

SloKDM

well, we do have a few accidents at the workplace...i mean, i did a transmission service on a truck and one of the customer's lines blew due to the pressure while the service was running. The fluid went all over the engine bay and all over my area of the shop. Sucked, clean-up really did suck.


Also, about the whole switching over to synthetic...they will switch over with no questions to you..More money in there pocket.

brian01tib

I think you only have to put oil in the filter for disel trucks

silvertibbs

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Black01Tibby @ Feb 25 2005, 12:18 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (CyberShark)</div><div class='quotemain'>I used to work at the WalMart automotive department and that's close to how we used to do it.</div>

If I go to WalMart and ask them to change my oil over to synthetic will they do it or hastle me about it?
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I'd suggest to do it yourself. You'll save mega cash, they charge you for the oil on top of the services that they make you pay for. (for regular oil it's included)

Just my $0.02.

Pyro, just remember to use the new oil to grease the filter's gasket, and not old stuff. Also make sure to run it like SloKDM and Sparticus mentioned to get oil to the places they need to go, then add more if needed.

faithofadragon

if i remember correctly its a 17mm socket for the oil pan

REDZMAN

And the reason this was brought back to life?

Pyro

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (REDZMAN @ Jul 3 2005, 05:58 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'>And the reason this was brought back to life?
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ya no kiddin this topic is like 6 months old iv done a couple of them by now, i can almost do it with my eyes closed