[Kurt B]

It's not a matter of who you take it to, it's a matter of their attitude. I had tires put on last week at Firestone, and hell, I had them change the oil too, and needed the engine drain plug replaced, so I gave them a nice new one and said the old one's stripped, carefully replace it.

They weren't too comfortable with that one bit. I basically said, the head's stripped, I had to use a little vice grip action to finish my oil change last time, but otherwise, it's fine, so slap on this new one.

Gently try to loosen it and if it doesn't come right out, I'll take care of it. The point is, they were willing to listen. They didn't just "Yeah yea ok ok..whatever dude." me.

I told them everything: about the oil lines--don't crush em please, they wanted to see where they were, I showed em, and that was that. Overall, I'm happy with it.