A shop that estimates that it has done thousands of oil changes on GM trucks had one come back twice, leaking at the filter they had fitted both times. They found a service bulletin telling them to tighten the filter far harder than anyone would by hand. The father-and-son team filmed themselves doing it while voicing serious doubts about whether this was a good idea.
Royalty Auto Service (@royaltyautoservice) posted a video of the process which has so far drawn more than 843,700 views. The truck is a 2023 Chevrolet Silverado with the 5.3-liter V-8. “They say it’s just an oil change, but evidently we’ve been doing them wrong for a long time here on these GMs, supposedly,” the father says. “This is the first one we’ve ever had a problem with.”
