Oil change stores are businesses that specialize in changing motor oil in most types of cars and trucks. Most oil change stores also provide other types of preventive maintenance services, but they usually do not provide many types of common or major vehicle repair services.
While most full service auto repair centers can perform an oil change on a vehicle, oil change stores are usually quite adept at quickly changing the oil, the oil filter and checking other fluid levels in a vehicle. In most cases, an oil change store can offer basic oil change services that can normally be completed in about 10 to 15 minutes. Prices charged by oil change stores are generally very competitive and most national chain oil change stores offer coupons or promotions to attract new customers.
Most oil change stores may offer several different brands of motor oil and oil filters to choose from, but there are oil change stores that are subsidiaries or are actually owned by a motor oil manufacturer and only sell one brand of motor oil. Some of the better known and larger oil change store companies include,: EZ Lube, Jiffy Lube, Speedy Oil, Pennzoil Oil Change Service Centers and Valvoline Instant Oil Change Service Centers. For the most part, most oil change stores can be found along heavily-traveled roads in areas that have large amount of retail shopping centers or retail gas stations. Most of the companies also have significant online presences as well, and often offer coupons and promotions on their websites.