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It’s amazing and honestly kind of sad how risk averse some people are. The reason I don’t change my oil anymore is it just isn’t worth the time and hassle. The

It’s amazing and honestly kind of sad how risk averse some people are. The reason I don’t change my oil anymore is it just isn’t worth the time and hassle. The “unsafety” of such a task doesn’t even register on my things to be worried about: at all. Jack it up, remember to put on gloves(!!!!) put the fucker on stands and go. The actual scary thing is I’m pretty sure way back when I was a kid we’d just dump the oil down the storm drain. I hate to think what that was doing to the environment around us.

BenFranklin100 3y ago
I’m baffled too. Changing oil in a car is dead simple and effectively zero risk with a proper pair of jack stands and a modicum of common sense and mechanical aptitude.
- ryanjshaw 3y ago
  Not everyone is born with common sense. I sure wasn't. I'll find some way to do something that will leave the people with common sense scratching their heads, saying "but why wouldn't you just...".
  - outop 3y ago
    There's a kind of meta-common sense which allows people to say "I don't have the ability to perform this task reliably".
  - BenFranklin100 3y ago
    All right, I respect that. I’m sure there are plenty of things that I might do that would leave you scratching your head too.
- shawabawa3 3y ago
  Of course it's safe if you jack it correctly The problem is if you've only used a jack 0-1 times in your life, you won't know you haven't done it correctly until there's a car crushing you
- Der_Einzige 3y ago
  Harbor freight famously sold unreliable jackstands for awhile. There’s memes about it in the car community.
  - hagbard_c 3y ago
    There's plenty of unreliable jack stands, especially the folding tripod-type is easily toppled. I still use these but I put a few LECA-blocks and/or stacks of lumber under the edges of the car to catch it in case the jack stands fail. This never happened but I prefer not to end up a statistic of the ´man found dead under car on farm' type.

BenFranklin100 3y ago

I’m baffled too. Changing oil in a car is dead simple and effectively zero risk with a proper pair of jack stands and a modicum of common sense and mechanical aptitude.

ryanjshaw 3y ago
Not everyone is born with common sense. I sure wasn't. I'll find some way to do something that will leave the people with common sense scratching their heads, saying "but why wouldn't you just...".
- outop 3y ago
  There's a kind of meta-common sense which allows people to say "I don't have the ability to perform this task reliably".
- BenFranklin100 3y ago
  All right, I respect that. I’m sure there are plenty of things that I might do that would leave you scratching your head too.
shawabawa3 3y ago
Of course it's safe if you jack it correctly The problem is if you've only used a jack 0-1 times in your life, you won't know you haven't done it correctly until there's a car crushing you
Der_Einzige 3y ago
Harbor freight famously sold unreliable jackstands for awhile. There’s memes about it in the car community.
- hagbard_c 3y ago
  There's plenty of unreliable jack stands, especially the folding tripod-type is easily toppled. I still use these but I put a few LECA-blocks and/or stacks of lumber under the edges of the car to catch it in case the jack stands fail. This never happened but I prefer not to end up a statistic of the ´man found dead under car on farm' type.