The quick lube industry is moving past oil-only while oil costs squeeze margins — Tyreese lays out the mobile diversification playbook: add one service, price the margin, and keep the customer.
Tyreese Burton
Oil Change Expert
Originally aired 2026-11-04 on the Mobile Oil Change Industry podcast.
The quick lube industry is moving past oil-only while oil costs squeeze margins — Tyreese lays out the mobile diversification playbook: add one service, price the margin, and keep the customer.
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Look, I want to start this one with something that came out of Las Vegas this week, because it tells you exactly where this industry is headed, whether you run a shop with ten bays or you run one van like me.
On Tuesday, National Oil and Lube News reported on the State of the Industry session at iFLEX at AAPEX, and the headline finding is this: the quick lube business is not just the oil change business anymore. The session was built around the twenty twenty-six NOLN Operator Survey, and thirty-four percent of the operators who responded said they also have car washes. Jason Lyon, the immediate past president of the Preventative Automotive Maintenance Association, put it even plainer. He said almost half of their members are not simply quick lube anymore. That is why the association chang...
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Tyreese Burton is the owner-operator of MOMS Mobile Oil Change in the Philadelphia area and host of the Mobile Oil Change Industry daily podcast. He covers the business of mobile automotive service — pricing, operations, fleet contracts, and industry shifts — from the driver's seat.
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