Some of you may see these "Oil Changers" drive through oil change places pop up alongside their respected Petro Canada stations.

Considering I have always driven manuals, I always change my oil myself due to paranoia of other people driving my car and being garbage at manual (even the serviceman who brought in my car at the dealership, with 20years of manual experience, still ran the clutch high and long)

The only time I would ever consider another place doing it, is out of laziness, and if the price is very low, but then again only if it's a drive-thru one to avoid others driving my car.

Anyway, before I bought my Mazda3, I brought my jalopy 1990 Mazda Protege323 to the Oil Changers in Whitby on Dundas and Thickson, and here is my result:

While I was stopped over the pit, the serviceman kept moving my shifter linkages in and out of gear. It would pop all of a sudden into 4th, then come out and wobble side to side in neutral. It really annoyed me that they were playing with my shifter.

Anyway, I paid my $49.99 + tax and was on my way.

Lo and behold, they stripped my oil pan threads for the screw. Their fix; duct-tape around the screw itself and force it in like a wine-cork.

Warning you all: stay away from Oil Changers, and any "Fast drive through pit", if they can't take the time to do it properly, you can't drain all the old oil in less than 9 minutes.

It's a good thing that car was up for scrap anyway. Imagine it was my Mazda3