There is NO money in changing oil. You can't afford to pay a mechanic to change your oil so these quick oil change places try to upsell other services. Most of the workers that are changing your oil were probably flipping burgers at McDonalds before that.
These places have one manager that oversees all these workers and he's not even a mechanic. If he was he wouldn't be working there.
I use to do oil changes for $30 and there wasn't much profit considering the time it takes, esp with the newer cars that have shields that have to be removed to get to the filter.
The only reason I did them so cheap is I heated my shop with a waste oil heater and I never paid a cent for heat in the 12 years there.
I had a 40 x 60 building that probably would have cost 10K in oil per season to heat.
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