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Oh goody goody...oil pan stories!
My wife always had her oil changed at "Fleet Farm", a local big box store. One time she came home with a note saying she needed a new drain plug before the next change.

What ? I called em up, and the mechanic said, yeah they wear out! I said, how could something that lives in oil, and only makes a few turns in its lifetime wear out? They just wear out he said.

Using that theory, if one spun a nut down the length of a 3' chunk of threaded rod it would be worn out!

So, I got a brand new plug in the factory package from a friend who works for Honda, took that and my dial calipers with for the next oil change. Told the guy, drain the oil and bring me the plug.

I measured the thread pitch on both, the new one was actually slightly smaller!

I told em you guys wrecked the pan, its always come here for oil changes.

Well, after a month of arguing, they bought a pan, installed it poorly, and it leaked happily ever after.