weird oil change.

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Ok let me preface this by saying like most of the guys here, i have done dozens of oil changes.
I work on and have restored classic cars.
I also worked as a parts counter monkey for 2 years.
YEsterday i did an oil change on my wife’s new to her car. She went to the local pit monkey and got their 5 min special. The oil filter had this on it. I have never heard or seen this in my life. This little angled-on-each-side gasket was supposed to go between the hole in the center of the filter and the end of the housing for the filter intake end.
WTH?

washer

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What kind of car is it from? Something similar was on my wife’s old Buick 20 years ago when I changed the filter on hers. I managed to accidentally break it, too.

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09 rogue.
What bothers me is the gasket has lost enough material to get me pissed.
At first i though the in n out had a filter that was doable with this set up, but the #s cross match and i put my $300 calipers on it and it is the same.
No lower “dish” in the filter to made up for it either.
So that can’t be it.
Maybe he has a bad mechanic uncle? :crazy_face:

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Very strange. Aliens? (as in the UFO type)

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$19.95 oil change places suck.
S****y oil and filters.
Minimum wage morons too.

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Yes they do, i’d never use them clowns. but again i have never paid anyone to change mine. i have done it on bikes and cars and trucks since i have owned them.

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I paid 900 for a new oil pan in the Mrs car as the previous owner used a Jiffy type service, stripped the threads, its a Honda and a new oil pan means new water pump, timing belt and of course the rest they find needed, brakes etc , was about 3k by the end of the visit,

Sure they could have found more but I insisted they stop looking when they began telling stories about what other people cars needed

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