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Gas prices are up over 20% and customers are stretching their oil changes — Tyreese on why you chase the overdue list, not the discount button.
Tyreese Burton
Oil Change Expert
Originally aired 2026-11-07 on the Mobile Oil Change Industry podcast.
Gas prices are up over 20% and customers are stretching their oil changes — Tyreese on why you chase the overdue list, not the discount button.
Listen to "Gas Prices Are Stretching Oil Changes — Fight Back" on the podcast page
Good morning. Welcome in. Saturday morning, coffee is hot, trucks are warming up, so let us get your head right before the first job rolls in.
Here is the signal. Yesterday, Friday, Diversified Royalty reported third quarter results for Mr. Lube and Tires, Canada's big quick lube chain. Same store sales fell five point one percent in the quarter, and total system sales slipped one point seven percent, after growing sixteen percent the same quarter last year. And the company said it plain: gas prices are up more than twenty percent year over year, six months running, so people are driving fewer miles, stretching their service intervals, and putting off the oil change. That is not a Canada problem. That is a wallet problem, and your customers have the same wallet.
Now here is the thing. When customers start stretching, most operators reach for the discount button. Do not. Mr. Lube ran the experiment for you. Back in July they celebrated fifty years in business with fifty percent off basic oil changes. Huge weekend, lines out the door, and the average ticket dropped, because the bays were so full of cheap oil changes they turned away the other work. A discount fills the bay and empties the ticket. The customer you train to wait for a coupon is a customer who never pays full price again.
Video summary coming soon — a visual breakdown of the key points from this episode.
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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