What have you done to your car today?
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Man of Honour
I just looked it up and yes I have actually tried it some years ago lol. I don't know where the bottle is now so assume I finished it. It's such a tiny bottle though so probably fell somewhere.
Caporegime
Took the rear brakes apart because of a "disintegrating" noise. Turns out the noise was indeed the brakes disintegrating. 
Plenty of meat left on those mate.
Plenty of meat left on those mate.
Man of Honour
Caporegime
Man of Honour
Do you have a link to that? I'd like to be able to do my own oil changes if it's that simple!
Soldato
Google - oil extractor.
Battery on my Avensis gave up the other day, it was labouring to turn over on cold days so knew it was on the way out.
Stuck a new battery in..... and now I magically have parking sensors. Whether they weren't working due to low battery or the reset just got them going..... not complaining
Stuck a new battery in..... and now I magically have parking sensors. Whether they weren't working due to low battery or the reset just got them going..... not complaining
Neat.Perfect weather for an oil and filter change on the car over the weekend. So much less faff using an extractor and the oil filter being nice and accessible makes it a relatively easy job.
My local garage only charge 30 quid for oil and filters though so think I'd pay the lazy premium.
Assume it's fairly easy to dispense it at a tip?
I got the Sealey TP69. Apparently a lot of the dealers do it that way now anyway. It took about 10 minutes to suck 4l out of my car and in that time I popped the filter out and replaced it. Luckily I only need to remove a piece of the air intake to get to my filter.
The garage I use charges an hours labour per car at about £70 and we've got two cars to do. For the sake of half an hour a weekend once a year it's worth the saving to me.
Yeh, the tips near me take old oil, so I just bottle it up and take it round one day.
Man of Honour
Ah yes my filter is accessible without moving anything, it's super easy lol so a total no brainer, also gives me another reason to use the Halfords Pro torque wrench another time 
Caporegime
It varies from car to car, depends on the sump design.
Some cars it leaves a good amount in the pan, some cars it gets every last drop.
But if it means doing it vs not doing it... Well frequency is king with oil changes!
Soldato
Not sure it can ever get every last drop. I think every other change is a decent half way house, that said a lot of dealers will use extraction method anyway.
Caporegime
It depends where the end of the pipe ends up in the sump really, but I have seen people demo it where they suck the oil out then remove the drain plug and nothing comes out.
And I do vaguely recall reading that Mercedes recommend that method over the traditional method for some models because it will get more oil out (because they don't know how to design a sump I guess? lol)
It might have been some other brand, it was a while ago.
Personally I'd probably try it, then pull the plug to see how much it missed, and make a call based on that. But if you have to go under the car to get to the filter anyway, it becomes a bit pointless IMO.
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Caporegime
You can get 12v pumps also that come with long bits of tube so you don't even have to use your hands. They are great for doing diffs, gearboxes and power steering reservoirs.
I bought one from Lidl for £9.99 about 5 years ago but most likely 50 quid with the inflation over the past two years.
I bought one from Lidl for £9.99 about 5 years ago but most likely 50 quid with the inflation over the past two years.
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Soldato
Gearbox is probably a bit different based on where the filler plug and drain usually are to be fair.
That's my next job, but I do have to lift the car and do it from below for that one I think!