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The Top-Down Oil Change
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The Top-Down Oil Change
Changing your own oil is messy and time-consuming unless you use an oil extractor.
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i've considered changing only the filter every other time, but to not change the filter is asking for an early retirement for your engine.
who told told you to only change the oil?
I drain warm oil for a minimum of 1 hour, and even using Wix filters would never consider changing the oil without changing the filter. Since 90% of all cars / SUVs have oil filters accessable from the bottom, the extractors would be useless ... unless you are one of the 10% with top access or simply don't care about your car.
May need to stop and empty a few times during an oil change.
When you hear about someone today that has a complicated vehicle issue and they are struggling to find someone that can handle it, you need to refer back to this kind of journalism and realize that it worked to chase good people out of the trade long before they ever got good enough to handle the harder tasks.
Totally unnecessary and this can damage an automatic transmission.