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0 pointscruffle_duffle2y ago0 comments

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.

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BenFranklin1002y 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.

shawabawa32y 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

ryanjshaw2y 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...".

outop2y 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".

BenFranklin1002y 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.

Der_Einzige2y ago

Harbor freight famously sold unreliable jackstands for awhile. There’s memes about it in the car community.

hagbard_c2y 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.

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BenFranklin1002y 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.

shawabawa32y 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

ryanjshaw2y 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...".

outop2y 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".

BenFranklin1002y 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.

Der_Einzige2y ago

Harbor freight famously sold unreliable jackstands for awhile. There’s memes about it in the car community.

hagbard_c2y ago

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