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DaveH
Fancied changing my oil at 10000 miles as I am not convinced the 20000 miles on one pan full of oil is the best thing. Yes, I’m sure it would be ‘ok’ but fresh oil can never be a bad thing.
Shocked at the dealer price of £216 so looked at the alternative of doing it myself.
Didn’t have the time or inclination to scrabble about removing the undertray to get at the drain plug and grappling with the awkwardness of the filter change so plumped for vacuuming the oil out and replacing it with fresh stuff.
To my surprise, and pleasingly, I managed to suck out 7 litres of old oil and replace with 7 litres of new.
There will still obviously be old remnants of oil in the system but, I figure that a 90% change is far better than nothing.
Just pleased that the Screwfix oil vac worked a treat. Half an hour, job done. No mess. No frustration.
£80 for the oil, £50 for the sucker!
Shocked at the dealer price of £216 so looked at the alternative of doing it myself.
Didn’t have the time or inclination to scrabble about removing the undertray to get at the drain plug and grappling with the awkwardness of the filter change so plumped for vacuuming the oil out and replacing it with fresh stuff.
To my surprise, and pleasingly, I managed to suck out 7 litres of old oil and replace with 7 litres of new.
There will still obviously be old remnants of oil in the system but, I figure that a 90% change is far better than nothing.
Just pleased that the Screwfix oil vac worked a treat. Half an hour, job done. No mess. No frustration.
£80 for the oil, £50 for the sucker!