How much for oil change?

[ukchris]

Where are you located? If you ask you might be suprised how willing people are to help those who are eager to learn, for the price of a few beers someone may share their garage for an hour.

You can get an oil pan at Walmart or Home Depot, just make sure it will hold 10 quarts and is reasonably slim. Remember to open the breather hole on the oil pan too or you'll have a mess on your hands, trust me!!

For disposal Autozone will take your old oil, I think they supposedly only do so if you buy your oil there but I don't think they ever check.

Check the quantity of oil required in the book before filling too, I think mine takes 8.75 quarts and I nearly had 9 in before I checked!

Chris.

[z12358]

ukchris:
"Where are you located? If you ask you might be suprised how willing people are to help those who are eager to learn, for the price of a few beers someone may share their garage for an hour."

Thx for the thought. The car's in northwestern CT (Litchfield county) right now where I spend most of my weekends and where I plan storing it. Kind of a long drive to Boston for an oil change. I'll try some friends in the area but if anyone here is in the area and likes beer...

Did Home Depo have those stairs already made or you culled them yourself?

Would the same set of wrenches do the job on 986, 987, 996, and 997?

Z.

[ukchris]

I just kept checking the cullrd lumber rack as it's cheap, you could just as easily buy a 2 x 12 I suppose. I cut them up, a couple of 45 degree cuts with a circular saw then screw them together. Lots of people do an oil change with the back end on rhino ramps, another popular way is to find a slope, put the ramps a little down hill then back on to them such that the car ends up roughly level.

I don't know of anyone in NW CT, there was a Boxster tech session in SE CT a couple of weeks ago which might have been ideal for this.

I think the tools would be similar across cars, they aren't expensive anyway, you're only looking at a few dollars with the exception of the torque wrench.

Chris.

[z12358]

MNBoxster:
"My point is, Porsche doesn't need all the fine print when they can simply deny the repair and probably have 50% or more claimants leave it at that and shell out for the repair on their own. It's a Dealer's game; they have the deck stacked in their favor."

In postings from new (warrantied) owners that I've read on forums it doesn't look like there are a lot denials of warranty. If anything, I was amazed what claims the dealers actually did service under warranty (console scratches, etc.). Sammy's case had a twist as the claim was made just outside of warranty (for something that the dealer failed to fix in waranty) so perhaps a little "convincing" should have been expected (of course, shouldn't have taken that long!). I haven't read about a case where RMS was not repaired under warranty.

Same as with insurance companies, it is in the interest of the ones who offer the insurance/warranty to service as little claims as they can get away with. The deck is always stacked in the favor of the ones who got your money first with an obligation for a conditional service in the future. That's why rules are important, especially written ones. So if the rules of the contract speciffically prohibit something that I've done, my bargaining power during the claim negotiations will be diminished. That's why I wanted to know for sure if anything like that is written in the rules.

And I agree that how claims are handled ultumately rests on the customer satisfaction policy of each company.

Z.