Have you considered the possibility of starting your own business doing mobile oil changes? Every car needs to have the oil changed right and most car manuals state that the oil interval for changes is somewhere between 3,000 and 8,000 miles depending on the car, engine and harshness of driving conditions.

This means you automatically have built in customers for life; providing of course you do quality work, have fair prices and give exemplary service to you customers. If so they will indeed refer you to other clientele. Before my retirement I was involved in this line of work at OilChangeGuys.com and so often people ask me about the Mobile Oil Change Business or how one might get started you see? In fact here is one where Jose from Florida asks;

I'm looking for an equipment to change oil for passenger vehicles, but i don't need the franchise. Please send additional info and prices.

Well we do not sell equipment to our competition and we are not franchising systems in the United States, but your best bet is to Search Google under; "Mobile Oil Change Vans" and "Mobile Oil Change Trailers" as there are a number of such companies which sell these things. There are various companies based in GA, SC, TN, Canada and even there in FL.

You should be expecting to spend about 10-12K for a good workable system and I do believe that most of these companies do have at least some financing. But if they are lease deals the rates are not so hot, so kind of watch that a little too. Consider all this in 2006.

Lance Winslow

Currently Lance is retired at age 40 and is running an Online Think Tank Forum while traveling North America. Perhaps considering something extremely challenging to do that will exercise his mind and utilize all his experiences, observations and skills. Any ideas?