Pep boys just called. When the guy changed my oil last time at the smog check place, he put the wrong oil filter on.
This is the second time this exact same thing has happened! It must have something to do with my car… like there’s a manual out there of Make/Model -> Oil filter type that has an error or a typo or something.
10 head -> desk
20 goto 10
What car do you own?
A ’96 Infiniti G20.
Maybe it’s time to put a big sticker in the undercarriage that specifies what type of oil filter to use.
agreed
oh, like the grease monkies are literate to begin with.
Sometimes a car manufacturer may even change the oil filter number partway thru a model year. I know with my WRX, i not only have to distinguish that its a 2003 vs a 2002,04,05, etc, but that its a model from the LATTER half of 2003 cause they change the filter part no. halfway WTF?
Learn to change the oil yourself. There’s no real cost savings but you’ll get piece of mind knowing some lube monkey isn’t going to screw it up again.