Lidl Electric Oil Extractor ( Problem for W211`s ? )

[wilko50]

Hello to you all, I have just brought the Lidl oil extractor (below link) which seems like great value. Problem is as you probably know with the W211 the battery is in the boot, this means the cable wont reach the engine bay to run the pump.

My question is ,can I run it from the small SBC battery in the engine bay or will it drain it ? It can take 20 mins to drain the oil which is a long time draining a small battery, also on these cars will the small SBC battery take power from the main battery when low even with the engine turned off ?

I hope you can help and give advice. Thank you

Ultimate Speed Oil Pump - at Lidl UK

Ultimate Speed Oil Pump - Includes: 1 oil pump including spiral cable with terminal clamps, 1 suction hose (1.2m), 1 discharge hose (2.0m), 2 clamps

www.lidl.co.uk

 

[Tonye]

Tru connecting to a battery charger, its only 60w

 

[190]

The Lidl pump is rated at 60W so that's 5 Amps for 20 mins which would amount to 1.66 Ah draw from the small battery. It will be fine. Having the oil hot (max 60 C) helps a lot with speed of pumping.

I've tried my automatic battery charger and it didn't work but there would be no harm in having a charger connected to the battery while you pump and that would work.

 

[Petrol Pete]

There has been a lot of love on here for the little Lild oil extractor but the simple fact that it need 12V put me off right away , kind of limits its use for other tasks.

I prefer Hand pump vacuum , admittedly much bulkier but my preferred method.

 

[ChipChop]

Hello to you all, I have just brought the Lidl oil extractor (below link) which seems like great value. Problem is as you probably know with the W211 the battery is in the boot, this means the cable wont reach the engine bay to run the pump.

My question is ,can I run it from the small SBC battery in the engine bay or will it drain it ? It can take 20 mins to drain the oil which is a long time draining a small battery, also on these cars will the small SBC battery take power from the main battery when low even with the engine turned off ?

I hope you can help and give advice. Thank you

Ultimate Speed Oil Pump - at Lidl UK

Ultimate Speed Oil Pump - Includes: 1 oil pump including spiral cable with terminal clamps, 1 suction hose (1.2m), 1 discharge hose (2.0m), 2 clamps

www.lidl.co.uk

I use a Lidl ultimate speed oil extractor on my diesel Mercedes and it takes less than 5 minutes to extract 7+ litres of 10w40. No need to worry about any significant battery drain in that short space of time i would have thought.
Do w211's not have a jump positive terminal jump start point in the engine bay? 210's do under a little black plastic cover on the near side of the engine bay.

 

[steveq]

Hello to you all, I have just brought the Lidl oil extractor (below link) which seems like great value. Problem is as you probably know with the W211 the battery is in the boot, this means the cable wont reach the engine bay to run the pump.

My question is ,can I run it from the small SBC battery in the engine bay or will it drain it ? It can take 20 mins to drain the oil which is a long time draining a small battery, also on these cars will the small SBC battery take power from the main battery when low even with the engine turned off ?

I hope you can help and give advice. Thank you

Ultimate Speed Oil Pump - at Lidl UK

Ultimate Speed Oil Pump - Includes: 1 oil pump including spiral cable with terminal clamps, 1 suction hose (1.2m), 1 discharge hose (2.0m), 2 clamps

www.lidl.co.uk

Isn't there a positive 12 volt terminal under the bonnet on the W211?
I thought there was one - under a sliding cover on the RHS as you are looking into the engine from the front.
There also is an earth terminal on the top of the suspension mount for the -ve terminal.

 

[johnsco]

Isn't there a positive 12 volt terminal under the bonnet on the W211?
I thought there was one - under a sliding cover on the RHS as you are looking into the engine from the front.
There also is an earth terminal on the top of the suspension mount for the -ve terminal.

Those are the positions where I connect my 12 volt oil extractor on my W211.
There are similar positions to clip on the leads in the engine compartment of the W203 C200.
Mine isn't from Lidl, but it's pretty-much the same as the ones that Lidl was selling 7 years ago when I bought it.
The current drain from a car battery is negligible.
Don't worry about it.
Pump away !!

 

[wilko50]

Isn't there a positive 12 volt terminal under the bonnet on the W211?
I thought there was one - under a sliding cover on the RHS as you are looking into the engine from the front.
There also is an earth terminal on the top of the suspension mount for the -ve terminal.

Thanks for replying, I took it back and got a manual extration pump instead

 

[wilko50]

Those are the positions where I connect my 12 volt oil extractor on my W211.
There are similar positions to clip on the leads in the engine compartment of the W203 C200.
Mine isn't from Lidl, but it's pretty-much the same as the ones that Lidl was selling 7 years ago when I bought it.
The current drain from a car battery is negligible.
Don't worry about it.
Pump away !!

Thanks

 

[wilko50]

I use a Lidl ultimate speed oil extractor on my diesel Mercedes and it takes less than 5 minutes to extract 7+ litres of 10w40. No need to worry about any significant battery drain in that short space of time i would have thought.
Do w211's not have a jump positive terminal jump start point in the engine bay? 210's do under a little black plastic cover on the near side of the engine bay.

Hi, I have never seen it, I am not sure

 

[190]

I've done it both ways and the major advantage of a Lidl pump is the oil goes straight into a wast oil container with no potentially messy decanting of oil from a hand pump. My hand pump has been relegated to other duties such as fully draining pipework for plumbing.

 

[DSM10000]

Modern battery chargers often need to see a load of some kind before they supply current so they may not supply power to the pump.

I had a very old battery charger that was switchable between 3 or 6 Amps I rigged up supply from this to power the extractor pump (bought from Amazon but seems identical to the one Lidl advertise)

Once it primed itself with oil it extracted
8. 25 litres in around 10 minutes. Straight into two 5 litre empty screenwash containers!

You could buy a 12v 7ah lead acid battery for about £15 and use that, makes a useful power supply for testing or buy a laptop power supply rated at 6amps or greater and rewire the pump to run it from the mains

 

[W1ghty]

Connect it to another cars battery that’s closer ?

 

[alabbasi]

There's always a thick positive wire coming from the alternator. Make sure you don't ground it

 

[Wearsthefoxhat]

Connect it to another cars battery that’s closer ?

Hopefully they won’t notice eh…

 

[DSM10000]

There's always a thick positive wire coming from the alternator. Make sure you don't ground it

Normally these are terminated in an insulated plug though so not easy to attach to?

 

[W1ghty]

Hopefully they won’t notice eh…

I meant another family or friend car (or of course someone that doesn’t notice )

 

[alabbasi]

Normally these are terminated in an insulated plug though so not easy to attach to?

Most of the ones I've messed with have a ring connector with a boot over it.