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A while back, I went to one of those corporate places for an oil change. They fucked up putting the metal thing back on the undercarriage, but a family member told me it would be okay without that. So I’ve been driving without the metal protective layer thing.

This fell off sometime on my drive home from work. We are currently experiencing tornadoes, so I can’t examine it too closely at the moment. It appears that it was just zip tied back on…

I am dead broke - my money this month has to go to car insurance, I can’t even afford registration at this point.

Can I just rip it off? I need an oil change soon, but I’m going to try to stretch it out a month or so.

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[–] paequ2 4 points 2 days ago

I went to one of those corporate places for an oil change ... This fell off sometime on my drive home from work.

Exact same thing happened to me. Ever since then, I do my own oil changes.

Although, there's definitely a startup cost. If you're tight on cash, then I wouldn't recommend it.

I guess the splash shield isn't essential for driving... although, you should probably get it back on at some point. It'll keep the elements out of the engine a bit. Getting water down there will probably lead to corrosion in the future. Not to mention rocks that could dent things down there.

It shouldn't actually be too hard to put it back on. It's usually just held on by plastic screws. You just need to buy replacement screws (a few bucks) and find a screw driver. The hard part would be lifting the car high enough so you can crawl under it. Then just line up the holes and put the screws on.