Kwik Kar Willow Bend

A regular oil changes is the single most important regular maintenance service for your vehicle! No lie!

At Kwik Kar Willow Bend, it is not just about changing your oil

An oil change at Kwik Kar Willow is about insuring your vehicle is ready to meet the challenges you encounter on the road every day. Whether your vehicle needs conventional, high mileage, synthetic blend or full synthetic oil, Kwik Kar Willow Bend has the quality motor oil your vehicles needs and you want. In addition our staff performs a comprehensive preventive maintenance review to check, change, inspect, fill and clean essential systems and components of your vehicle. Our technicians review visual checklist to diagnose potential problems and reviews c any upcoming manufacturer recommended maintenance each time your choose Kwik Kar Willow Bend for your oil change.

We have the oil change to meet your vehicle’s needs:

 

At Kwik Kar Willow Bend your Oil Change is not just and Oil Change:

Change:
Oil with up to five quarts of quality motor oil
Oil filter

Inspect Key Components:
Antifreeze/coolant reservoir levels
Engine air filtration system
Inspect Belts
Brake fluid level (in transparent reservoirs)
Wiper blades
Exterior lights
Chassis (lubricate when applicable)

Check and Fill:
Tire Pressure and Wear
Transmission/transaxle fluid
Differential/transfer case fluid
Power steering fluid
Windshield washer fluid
Visual Battery Inspection

Clean:
Exterior windows
Vacuum interior floors

You can get a coupon for discounts on oil changes anytime just select coupons from the main menu

Whether you are in Plano, Carrollton or The Colony, Lewisville area

Kwik Kar Willow Bend is ready to meet your vehicles specific needs.

We carry a number of Motor Oil brands, our primary brand of oil. Valvoline is manufactures to the highest specification.

However we realize that certain customers or vehicle my specify alternatives, so we carry a number of other brands to meet out customers needs

Not changing your oil as recommended by you vehicle's manufacturer can result in serious damage to you vehicles engine. One of our main services at Kwik Kar Willow Bend is changing oil and while we would love nothing more than to have everyone change there oil every 3,000 miles or 3 months, today you may be able to extend that interval. Many of today's modern synthetic oils can last to 5,000 or even 7,000 miles. Your driving habits and environment can have a major impact on this interval but often if you are using the correct synthetic motor oil, 3,000 miles is no longer the magic number for changing your oil. It is best to always check, what your manufacturer suggest.

But what if I do not change my oil very often?

Back in May of 2013 Cars.com published an article "Why Oil Matters" and in that article they highlighted some of the disheartening effects of not changing your oil. The following is a excerpt from that article,

"In short, it's not pretty.One of the problems is that there will begin to be buildup in the cooler parts of the engine, like the crankcase and around the camshafts and valves. This can lead to carbon deposits, or sludge, coming out of the old oil. That could require an expensive engine cleaning or force you to replace worn-out piston rings. It can get worse. The pistons could eventually seize or the camshafts could be damaged. Getting a bill for either one of these repairs would make even a few high-quality oil changes look like pocket change. Consider regular oil changes to be like really cheap insurance for your engine." Read the whole article at Cars.com

While the picture to the left is an extremely dirty engine, we have unfortunately seen similar sights far to often and I can assure you this customer was not visiting the shop for an oil change. The lack of properly schedules oil changes had already damaged vital engine components. A customer with an engine like this may have thought they were saving money but forgoing regular oil changes but the cost of the repairs resulting from failure to change your oil in a timely manner is almost always going to exceed the savings from not doing a simple oil change, very often by thousands of dolars!

Your fuel economy may also be negatively impacted buy not missing those regularly scheduled oil changes. Cars Direct makes this assursion in an article entitled  "How Oil Change Affects Gas Mileage" from January 2012. While this makes logical sense from the standpoint, if all the part are moving smoothing with minimal friction you should get better mileage but we cannot find any empirical studies demonstrating the savings. Even if there are mileage benefits from synthetic oil those savings are probably not going to off set the cost difference between conventional and synthetic oils. However the extended oil change interval using synthetic oil will ultimately save you money What can be stated without hesitation is that proper oil changes at the correct specified interval can save you literately thousands of dollars in early repairs.