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i was going to say STOP before it's too late. the more you try different sized heads and vice grips, the more you are rounding off the bolt head, and all of that means only one thing: the less and less likely you are going to be able to turn it at all.
If you couldn't turn it with all your pressure and a good bolt head, then stripped a little, then more...then how are you going to NOW turn it with all of your pressure and a rounder bolt than when you started. It won't work. All that is happening is that you are making it less and less likely that your Jiffy Lube guys will get it off either. Stop now, and let a shop do your one last oil change, and have them put a new plug on for you. If you strip it even further, how is that going to make it easy on them either? their sockets will spin around too. even if they are impacts.
Your problem from the beginning was probably leverage. A small hand socket wrench simply didn't have the leverage to help you turn the bolt. Unless you are the hulk, it will help to slip a 2" pipe of at least a foot in length over the hand wrench you were using... then you get a good LONG handle and that bolt will turn for hulks and non hulks alike.
So, tough love here: stop now before even the mechanic who is for sure going to do your oil change -- even they will hate you as it will take them half an hour to unscrew your round bolt if you keep going.
Buy the toughest socket you can to replace your broken one...throw that one away.
Buy a new drain plug. Magnet is B.S. (oh god! someone's contradicted dean...oh no) you are not going to see metal filings on your plug. Maybe the finest microscopic atoms if something is going wrong. So how are you going to see that? on a rag? with all the oil? Then you wipe it clean and put it back...then what? seriously, what are you going to do about it? rebore the cylenders immediately? Just get whatever plug fits and is not so cheap that you will strip it easily. If you want to get a megamagnet, go for it.
Next time, never let the socket slip around at all. Get the pipe out and keep your other hand on the socket and bolt together.
P.S. when you said you were jacking the car up, I hope you weren't doing the change with your car jacked up with the spare tire jack? You need proper axel stands or ramps, do NOT work on your car on jack alone...especially hamering and shoving the wrench around like that...for your safety.
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