I've got you all beat. My last stealership oil change was ~$23 not including oil (since I brought my own synthetic oil), took THREE hours and was followed up by a return trip to he dealer when I realized that I had gone there with 5 quarts of oil and there were zero quarts in the cardboard box in my car when I got home. Well, I checked the oil level and it was substantially overfilled.

The Civic HX only holds about 3.3 quarts of oil in the first place, so either they poured in all 5 quarts of my own $5/quart synthetic oil, or they poured in at least 4 and kept a quart for themselves. Either way, they then had to drain it into a catch pan and properly refill it to the correct level. So.. they basically wasted quite a lot of my time, charged me $23 anyway, and wasted about $7.50 of my oil with their screwup.

Well, that was the end of that. After 8 years of using the stealership for my oil changes I decided to do my last one on my own. Other than the fact I didn't have the right kind of oil filter wrench to get the filter off (the dealer likes to jam them on there with 900 ft-lbs of torque or something) it was actually pretty easy and only took me maybe an hour or so and cost me $7.50 for the filter and drain plug washer. Oil would have been the same price either way, so I don't count that, but on the other hand, by doing it myself I only put in the 3.3 quarts that it needed rather than the 4 or whatever the dealer normally does.

Actually I have no idea what they normally did with my remainder oil. Up until I did my own oil change and actually looked up the oil capacity in the manual I had always figured the Civic took 4 quarts because normally they take 4 quarts out of the case that I go into the dealer with. All these years it would seem that they were either throwing away at least 0.5 quart of my oil or keeping it for themselves. Well at any rate, as much as I am not a super huge fan of working on cars myself, this was one area where it's pretty satsifying to do it yourself and know that you did it right and saved a couple bucks in the mean time.