Changing oil

[4T5]

You can even chuck your spare down on the kerb & drive up onto it ***** style no jack or owt.

 

[ubersonic]

Over the past few days the oil light has come on when stopping at roundabouts etc. so I bought it with the view to just topping it up.

When my old man showed me how to oil change a car years ago it was a case of showing me how to see if the oil needed topping up via the dipsticks readings, oil filters weren't mentioned!

You have checked its low on oil yeah? the fact it goes on and off would worry me.

 

[PiKe]

You can even chuck your spare down on the kerb & drive up onto it ***** style no jack or owt.

Benefit of jacking at least one side (especially sump plug side) is you can drop it slightly to get all the oil out.

 

[ShakenNstirred]

Ok, I think I might have to get a garage to do this, don't see how I'm gonna get this all done with just a wheel jack!

not always the case, my last few cars i havent had to touch the jack

 

[Haggisman]

Yeah I've seen one or two informative youtube vids on it now, the process is easy, it's just that I only have one wheel jack so would have to jack one side of the car up and would feel unsafe under my car like that.

Don't work under your car if it's just jacked up - not worth the risk, get some axle stands (if you even need to raise it)

 

[ins0mn1ac]

Did mine recently once I realised how stupidly easy it was, quick 2min blast will get the engine warm enough for the oil to be a little easier to get out and the engine won't be too hot to touch.
Once you've unplugged the sump give it a good while as it'll continue to drip out, then providing you have enough new oil, poor some in leaving the sump plug out so it'll hopefully drag out and remnants of the old stuff.
Only mistake I made is misjudging how much oil the actual filter held, wasn't expecting that much, made a bit of a mess!

 

[megakid]

Don't work under your car if it's just jacked up - not worth the risk, get some axle stands (if you even need to raise it)

Was about to put this. There's no way you'd catch me under a car supported just by one or many jacks.

I wouldn't but if you absolutely have to, slide your spare under with the jack to give you a bit of extra room if the jack does fail.

 

[Scania]

My question is do I need to drain the old oil as it's a different type (semi vs fully)

Not sure if it would be any different with cars or not but at work the oil drums (one regular oil, one synthetic) have a big sign by them warning not to put synthetic oil in Scanias as the oil won't mix properly and causes - apparently - turbo problems.

 

[Brookert]

Not sure if it would be any different with cars or not but at work the oil drums (one regular oil, one synthetic) have a big sign by them warning not to put synthetic oil in Scanias as the oil won't mix properly and causes - apparently - turbo problems.

interesting.................

My dad was told, when he bought my last lot of oil from his ford buddies, not to mix the old ford semi synth with new ford fully synth.

Didn't say why, I would imagine there must be a difference in densities, which would cause poor mixing.

Anyone got some semi and fully synthetic they can test?

 

[( |-| |2 ][ $]

If you've got the oil it's not going to cost you much to get a garage to change the oil while using a new filter and sump plug.

Hopefully they'll dispose of your old oil correctly too

 

[ShakenNstirred]

interesting.................

My dad was told, when he bought my last lot of oil from his ford buddies, not to mix the old ford semi synth with new ford fully synth.

Didn't say why, I would imagine there must be a difference in densities, which would cause poor mixing.

Anyone got some semi and fully synthetic they can test?

this only really applies if your adding oil in a top up(like if you added 1/2, 1litre to get it back up to full mark)
when changing oil you have drained 99% of the oil so not a problem