Winter Oil service

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I think we obsess too much (me included) about getting every drop of the old oil out when the reality is you can't, there will always be some left in bearings and oil galleries. In any case the colour of the oil is not a good guide to to the oils condition, ask any diesel owner 2 mins after they have done an oil change. Petrol owners should have pretty clean oil after a change if they don't then they didn't get enough of the old oil out. In 10 years of using a pump to change the oil, only once did I not achieve visibly clean oil after a change but it will have done no harm if 95% of the oil was new.

 

[ALFAitalia]

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Was on special at Lidl Bognor.... might have been £12.99 to be honest... but that's the 0.2L per minute one with a max 30 min run time....look at the specs on the box. Judging by other people's posts earlier ones must have been better or a different brand.

 

[Smiley]

If you have "sludge" or "debris" to get rid of then you either have a big problem or a 60+ year old car.

 

[OneForTheRoad]

Was on special at Lidl Bognor.... might have been £12.99 to be honest... but that's the 0.2L per minute one with a max 30 min run time....look at the specs on the box. Judging by other people's posts earlier ones must have been better or a different brand.

It's the same one I've got . Nothing wrong with them , bit too much knee jerking here tbh. over £13

 

[Skd884]

Many thanks, I'll look forward to this!

Drained from the sump 204 at the main dealer today.

 

[Fastcar155]

I had a pair of Volvo Penta diesel engines installed in a power boat.Although an oil plug filter was fitted to the engine it was not possible to use.

The only solution was to use a pump that left 1 litre of engine oil in the sump !

Solution was to change the engine oil every 50 hours

 

[colinallcars]

Totally had the same thoughts years ago but after actually doing the pump based method AND removing sumps ( I have done this with 4 different vehicles over the last 10 years ) I’m happy that the pump removes just as much as the sump plug method.

Bear in mind I always do the change when the car has been out and used for over an hour so the oil and anything in suspension is well and truly mixed up.

Also remember im changing the oils a lot more frequently than the actual service intervals. It’s not like the sump is full of sludge and broken bits of timing chain guides !

It works for me and works for Mercedes and BMW

Appreciate you are more OCD than I am so good luck clambering around under your own cars. I do all of mine outside and don’t have access to lifts etc now so the top down method is beneficial there also.

Sadly not BMW anymore, they’ve reverted to a sump plug and no dipstick tube. I’m about to have to crawl on the ground!