You can buy a service contract with your local dealer for oil changes. It works out to be $14 per oil change. You get 10 oil changes!!! That is much cheaper than you can ever do it yourself. I have all my Mopar products done this way. Saves me time and the headache of making multiple trips to the parts store to get parts and dispose of the old oil. I am normally in and out appox. 45 min. Might want to look into it.

 

yeah, go buy some oil change plans. And tell ur wife to take the car in so you can sit home and watch TV + Beers.


Well, I always reach my hand in below the radiator. I got small arm. Band type oil filter wrench works the best. But i Dread frist oil change from the Factory, the filter is always torqued down to like 1,000,000,000 ft-lb.

 

I recently started changing my own oil, recently (2nd change), I drained the oil. took old filter off, and wtf! Wrong filter?? I had gotten the same one at napa for the first one>>??? Hmmmm. I look at the receiving flange undrneath, thats odd, It will fit the larger oil filter, ( the one I thought was wrong). The first oil change was done and I matched up the one the dealer had put on there.
long story short, The dealer was using the wrong filter for 35 k miles. I wouldn't buy a dealer service for oil changes EVER!! Total rip offs!! Just my 2 cts!!

 

Jeebus this thread is a riot...

 

I got one for ya, 2005 dakota, 4.7. oil drain plug is above cross member, unbolt plug and watch oil splash everywhere but in the dam pan