I bought a K&N oil filter for my car and spoke with a mechanic afterwards. He said that it's a waste of money (I have a v6 no mods). What do you guys think? Also, I've recently moved so now I have sort of a driveway to work on my car. Any suggestions on basic tools I can buy to do basic car maintenance? Thanks.
Kevin

 

Yes the expensive oil filter was a waste of money. Just stick to the Delco's for $2.50 a peice. For maybe the slight increase in protection it's not worth the ridiculous price increase. The K&N air filter is worth it at least in the fact you can clean and reuse it.

As for tools, get yourself a good socket set with both standard and metric sockets our cars use both quite a bit. Make sure it has 1/4", 3/8" and 1/2" drives. Mutli-meter is nice to have for any electrical related problems. Some box wrenchs, pliers, side cutters, needlenose pliers. Just your basic hand tools.

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For oil changes, you'll need portable ramps, or a floor jack and jack stands to get the car up high enough to get under it to do the oil change; a pan to catch the oil as it drains out and a container to take it to the recycle center (Checker takes mine); and an oil filter wrench to fit your filter (and hand tools to remove the drain plug). There are several kinds of filter wrenches, from a metal strap, to a cap that fits the flutes on the bottom of the filter, to a web strap on a square bar that you turn with a ratchet. I have all three. Only the web strap is a "univeral" size, the others have to match your oil filter.

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instead of ramps you can be real ghetto and use a few 2x4s stacked up to drive the front wheels onto. just make sure there's no nails sticking up!

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i agree with the above. you can buy a cheap filter and change it more often if you are concerned and still save money. you can buy a cheap floor jack but if you want to work on anything else or frequently i would get a larger jack. not those tiny little ones they call floor jacks. i got one as sears for like 100.00 and another at a wholesale place for 60.00 they work equally good. as for tools. buy a manual for your car. it does have some good information in it 20 bucks i think and i would reccomend a basic tool set from sears they are good quality and lifetime warranty`you can get a decent set for around 100 bucks i think.
you can get cheap tools for 10 bucks but you get what you pay for. a good set of tools is a life long investment if you can spare the money.
thats just my $.02

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