# An oil change tip

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/an-oil-change-tip/168020>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [July 29, 2020, 10:50am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/an-oil-change-tip/168020 "2020-07-29T10:50:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 10:50am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/an-oil-change-tip/168020/1 "2020-07-29T10:50:52Z")

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😉

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/3/5/35637740497c25be5dcc22997842dd54c0ec688b.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![Marnet](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/marnet/32/41_2.png) [@Marnet](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Marnet)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 11:14am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/an-oil-change-tip/168020/2 "2020-07-29T11:14:34Z")

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Ah, a compacted car. 😳🙃

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**Author:** ![tom418](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/da6949/32.png) [@tom418](https://community.cartalk.com/u/tom418)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 1:14pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/an-oil-change-tip/168020/3 "2020-07-29T13:14:32Z")

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Now the owner of the car gets to park in spaces reserved for compact cars only, eh? 🙂

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**Author:** ![TwinTurbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@TwinTurbo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/TwinTurbo)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 1:23pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/an-oil-change-tip/168020/4 "2020-07-29T13:23:52Z")

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> [@tom418](#):
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> gets to park in spaces reserved for compact cars only, eh?

compact_ed_  
😁

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**Author:** ![Marnet](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/marnet/32/41_2.png) [@Marnet](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Marnet)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 2:11pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/an-oil-change-tip/168020/5 "2020-07-29T14:11:47Z")

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Bet the owner feels bent out of shape. 🤔

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**Author:** ![shanonia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de053/32.png) [@shanonia](https://community.cartalk.com/u/shanonia)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 3:25pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/an-oil-change-tip/168020/6 "2020-07-29T15:25:04Z")

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Note how the roof didn’t cave in, the understructure did. Modern safety engineering favors a strong roof and roof pillars, and lots of crumple zone around the passenger space. Here’s a good example.

An electric eye like on garage door openers would have kept it from getting that high.

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**Author:** ![Nevada\_545](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/nevada_545/32/41232_2.png) [@Nevada\_545](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Nevada_545)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 3:38pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/an-oil-change-tip/168020/7 "2020-07-29T15:38:35Z")

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> [@shanonia](#):
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> Note how the roof didn’t cave in, the understructure did.

The damage was photoshopped. The bar across the top has a kill switch for the lift motor.

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**Author:** ![oldtimer-11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e79b87/32.png) [@oldtimer-11](https://community.cartalk.com/u/oldtimer-11)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 6:17pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/an-oil-change-tip/168020/8 "2020-07-29T18:17:20Z")

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How tall was the guy working on those front brakes?

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**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 6:28pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/an-oil-change-tip/168020/9 "2020-07-29T18:28:12Z")

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> [@oldtimer-11](#):
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> How tall was the guy working on those front brakes?

When I was a kid, my uncle was showing slides that he had _obviously_ taken while flying in a passenger plane.  
This was in the '50s, when most people hadn’t yet taken a trip on a plane.  
His next-door neighbor–who wasn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer–asked, “Did you take those pictures from a plane?”.  
My uncle’s sarcastic response was, “No, Gladys, I was standing on my tip-toes”.