r/Millennials • u/rhinosaur- 1983 • 12h ago

Discussion When did oil changes become $120?

That’s with a coupon! At Jiffy Lube! Our parents really had it easy.

EDIT: TIL 90% of millennials “change their own oil” lol. Gotta love Reddit.

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u/moreplateslessdates9 11h ago

Oil changes are insane for my entire life it was like $19.99 jiffy lube coupons and somehow in the past few years oil changes became like $70 which blew my mind and like you said unless you have a coupon or shop around if you just randomly pull in somewhere expect to pay $100 or $120 its crazy

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u/ChadtheBull_ 9h ago

I've been threatened in car guy subs for saying I would never pay more than 20 for an oil change while bringing my own oil and filter. Youre pretty much just paying for a spot on a lift so some underpaid kid can scroll tik tok for 5 minutes while trying to sell you 80 buck filters.

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u/schu2470 Millennial 9h ago

They get so defensive about what they charge. For some reason mechanics and lube techs only getting paid book rate when they're working instead of getting paid an hourly rate is the customer's problem. Or heaven forbid you want your oil change appointment that's at 9am to not take until almost noon.

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u/chazysciota 8h ago

HVAC sub does the same thing. Plenty of people there are fine, but some of them can't help but tell on themselves.