Just did mine yesterday. Saved $70 not going to the dealer, or $100 not going to Jiffy Lube. I use the ValvoMax Oil Drain Valve, the one where you only have to unscrew the oil plug by hand. I didn't get the EZ Oil Drain Valve, the one that you only need to flip the switch with your finger. I didn't get that one because I feared that one day I might drive over something, and flip that switch by accident, and lose all my oil while driving on the road somewhere. Man you don't want that. But since my car has a bottom engine cover that would have covered this oil plug anyway, I probably would have been better off going ahead and getting the EZ Oil Drain Valve imo.
Yes, I have a car that came with a bottom engine cover. And having to take that engine cover off every time I change the oil is time consuming, and I keep losing one cover screw every other time I change the oil. But I just found out during yesterdays oil change that I probably wasn't turning all those engine cover screws far enough clockwise, securing them all the way. Before this, I thought the dealer was stealing these engine cover screws, back when I was letting them change my oil (yes I took that free oil change deal for the first 60, 000 miles). But as far as I know, they might have really been stealing them, since I started discovering some of these screws missing when I started changing the oil myself. That, or they were making the same mistake I was making, and not turning these screws clockwise far enough. Anyway, I think I found my problem yesterday, and I shouldn't be losing any more of these engine cover screws, including the ones I need to replace.
If anybody else here been having this problem of engine cover screws missing every time you change your oil, then maybe you were making the same mistake I was making. But one thing for sure, I would have never known any of these screws were missing, if I kept letting the dealership do the oil change.
