People who pay for conveniences in order to delegate their labor these days often confuse their class/caste privileges for a sign of maturity. What you’re confusing for a sign of maturity (people cooperating with you because you are competent/ respected) is actually capitalism replacing your social connections with money. You’ll notice that’s also how they trashed the rest of your society, if you take two minutes and think about it.
This example brings up another point that the argument doesn’t address. You have to know how to do an oil change to begin with, and you’d be surprised how many people don’t. Or maybe you wouldn’t, it’s not exactly straightforward. I knew someone who poured the oil down the dipstick hole instead of the oil tank hole
At least it was in the oil spot and not the transmission fluid spot.
Good old Subarus, having the drainplug for engine and transmission near each other and identical led people to drain the transmission and overfilling the engine.
How not to build a car example number one
My Vehicle from 99 had a straight forward dipstick that always seemed to be perceptionally accurate. For some reason now I can’t seem to ever find good measurements on these small dipsticks. Is the engine warm, yes. Pull it, wipe it, dip it… Shmeer across the whole thing and I can’t tell where the level is at. Or the entire thing is covered or nothing at all which should be telling me it’s really high/low. I’ve even asked others to check them next to me and they tell me they have no idea what it is at either. i read somewhere to take sandpaper to old ones to give them more surface for the oil to stick to, but that seems like a recipe for metal shards flaking off into the oil down the line, maybe not though.
Level surfaces and patience are 2 things I need more of