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As far as my experience with quick change places on this side of the pond, I did use them for my company vehicle for a short time. I got tired of them up selling me crap I didn’t need and failure to tighten a drain plug, dumping 6 liters of oil in my driveway, ended our relationship.
Except for the Wrangler, the DeSoto, and the bikes, the newer vehicles go to full service shops. I always get the tires rotated at the same time. The Chevy goes to the local stealership. They know me and know what I do for a living, so they don’t try to up sell me on anything. If they see something that needs attention, they let me know. We are trying a new to us place for the Fiat in Jeep clothing, and have been pleased with them.
The drain oil from the Wrangler, DeSoto, and the bikes goes into a five gallon bucket. That bucket goes to my SIL when filled and he uses it in his oil burning patio heater. That booger glows red when it is January mode. He gives me an empty bucket to refill and we start the process over.

 

[Pugglt Auld Jock]

I remember the old V8 Range Rovers which I think originated from an old Buick V8 of the 1950s/60s. Used to need regular 3k oil changes, but this was back in the 70s and 80s when engines were designed with slide rules milled from aluminum castings on hand controlled machines, so as you can imagine the tolerances in the engine parts were pretty bad and the potential for swarf and other contaminants to work their way into around the engine was high even after years of use.

I actually stumbled across some youtube channels you'd probably enjoy Jock. They take engines they have bought from scrap yards and take them apart to see why they were scrapped. Usually only buying the engine that's been scrapped from a car where the engine has been replaced so as to ensure there is always something interesting to be found that has failed in the engine.
The most horrific engine I have seen them look at so far (not for failure but for design) was an audi 4.2V8 that had the whole timing assembly on the gearbox end of the engine, and used about 4 or maybe 5 separate chains to link all the timing gear together..... and plastic tensioners/guides so you don't need to be a genius to know what's going to happen there.

They also explore a lot of engines that have been poorly serviced, so lots of failures through oil problems.

One thing that shocked me to discover recently is my wifes parents NEVER service their cars. there cars have no service history at all, and what's even more shocking than that is they have a 20 year old landrover that they still use daily, They have works vans (again never serviced) that are 18 and 15 years old, and yet the engines keep going even if every other part of the car is falling off. The landrover had a new engine a few years back but not because of the lack of servicing but because of the typical Rover K-series head gasket failure that they fitted to the freelander aswell as many other cars.

I have seen in the USA as well, there are many non car people who do zero servicing on their cars and garaged taking engines apart with the oil looking like road bitumen.

Ah yes, the venerable Rover/Buick V8. The British hot rodder's wet dream! I was very much into hot rodding and drag racing in the late 60s and 70s and that engine turned up in so many projects - I remember a Mk2 Zephyr/Zodiac which I salivated over every time I saw it. Rather than gas on about it there's a mass of info here for anyone who's interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rover_V8_engine#:~:text=12 External links-,History,boards in the late 1950s).

Personally, I thought Edward Turner's Daimler 250 or 450 engine was a much prettier unit and would have been my choice for a Bucket "T" or similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daimler_V8_engines

Back in the day there was a Jago bodied bucket T which regularly was seen at Santa Pod with a Daimler 250 in it. Been looking for a picture of it but haven't found it yet.

If you've got a link to any of those engine videos I'd love to see them Andy

 

[Pugglt Auld Jock]

Except for the Wrangler, the DeSoto, and the bikes, the newer vehicles go to full service shops. I always get the tires rotated at the same time.

Tyre (sorry Tire) rotation is another thing you guys on the other side of the pond are much more into than us. Really only gets done over here if you either do it yourself or particularly request it at service time. I think it fell from favour with the advent of front wheel drive?

The drain oil from the Wrangler, DeSoto, and the bikes goes into a five gallon bucket. That bucket goes to my SIL when filled and he uses it in his oil burning patio heater. That booger glows red when it is January mode. He gives me an empty bucket to refill and we start the process over.

Sounds like our old "Volcano" heater in one of the workshops I worked in. A big circular waste oil container (waste oil with paraffin mixed in) and a funnel out the top much in the shape of the old American locos you see in the cowboy films - the whole thing was as tall as a man. You tilted the funnel flue to one side and threw a lighted rag onto the top of the oil/paraffin in the tank and then refitted the flue. When fully up to temperature the flue, which had small louvered vents in the side to "supercharge" the air flow, would glow bright red hot and roar! The heat produced was fierce. Health and safety would see it condemned these days but it kept us nice and warm at break times on snowy winter days!

 

[Pugglt Auld Jock]

True to their word DPD delivered the oil package at 14.57HRS. Well packed in a stout cardboard box:

These are the new packs, much like a wine box. So less polluting plastic as there's only the inner liner made from plastic. I've pulled the spout up on the one on the right so you can see. It pours pretty much just like a normal container.

 

[AndyRKett]

Ah yes, the venerable Rover/Buick V8. The British hot rodder's wet dream! I was very much into hot rodding and drag racing in the late 60s and 70s and that engine turned up in so many projects - I remember a Mk2 Zephyr/Zodiac which I salivated over every time I saw it. Rather than gas on about it there's a mass of info here for anyone who's interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rover_V8_engine#:~:text=12 External links-,History,boards in the late 1950s).

My experiance of these engines is pretty limited. mainly because I was born in the 80s after several major oil crisis in the 70s and 80s and so by the time I came along petrol was expensive and most people were driving 1.1 escorts and early Vauxhall Astra's. My Dad in the 80s had a 2.8 Granada Ghia which was a pretty engine for most people on our regular suburban street by the time I came along.

If you've got a link to any of those engine videos I'd love to see them Andy

This is an Audi V10 from one of the channels I found, you can see the insane OTT engineering in the timing gear, all inaccessible behind the flywheel.


This is another one

this is a BMW engine tear down but he has some other interesting videos and its not all big V8s and super car engines, they have some other "simple" engines like ford Ecoboost and this ecotec engine from GM with oil related issues.

 

[Mike1alike]

Missing piston, on the 2nd video!
Wow!!!
How about that?