I provide the following to reinforce the idea of avoiding the instant lube places. I was at a local safety inspection station this week for the final sign-off on my Cobra, and one of the vehicles on the hoist was a Ford Escape. The
oil pan was off and he was scraping the gasket surface on the block, and I asked the mechanic if the problem was a leaking
oil pan. His response was that he was replacing the
oil pan, as the drain plug hole had been stripped by an over-zealous instant lube technician (my verbiage, not his). I'm not sure why he wasn't just using a kit to fix the stripped threads, but that's another matter entirely.