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[CaveCreekRay]

Mercedes has been siphoning oil out of engines for decades. Its faster and cleaner for their service centers. Siphoning in the Mercedes is done through the dipstick hole.

The older BMWs use canister filters which sit upright with a cap at the front of the engine bay. Not sure about the 2017s... Very sweet. Open the top, pull out the filter element and toss it. Replace the rubber seal on the cap, toss in a new filter, and put the cap on. Very clean and easy indeed. Synthetic oil intervals on the 2014's and later are 15K by the book. 5k by my book.

Now, with the advent of BMW's "cartoons" on the dash, there is a wonderful color page showing oil level. With that information available, BMW no longer provides a dip stick on its newer motors. But without that access to vacuum the old oil out, they still require a drain hole. Both brands still have the oil cap on the top of the head for oil replacement.

Anyone live near Buffalo Grove, IL want to look at a used BMW for me?

 

[Buffalo]

I had a Johnny Pop from the 1940's. It needed only two tools in order to do anything. A big one, and
a little one.

 

[D2Cat]

Mercedes has been siphoning oil out of engines for decades. Its faster and cleaner for their service centers. Siphoning in the Mercedes is done through the dipstick hole.

The older BMWs use canister filters which sit upright with a cap at the front of the engine bay. Not sure about the 2017s... Very sweet. Open the top, pull out the filter element and toss it. Replace the rubber seal on the cap, toss in a new filter, and put the cap on. Very clean and easy indeed. Synthetic oil intervals on the 2014's and later are 15K by the book. 5k by my book.

Now, with the advent of BMW's "cartoons" on the dash, there is a wonderful color page showing oil level. With that information available, BMW no longer provides a dip stick on its newer motors. But without that access to vacuum the old oil out, they still require a drain hole. Both brands still have the oil cap on the top of the head for oil replacement.

Anyone live near Buffalo Grove, IL want to look at a used BMW for me?

Ray, in 1985 I had an '83 Nissan Maxima Diesel. The car set fairly low and the oil filter was difficult to reach, besides costing $19 at the dealer.

I installed one of the Frantz oil filters on the driver's side fender area. I could change the oil filter in less then 5 minutes. Changed oil about every 10,000, because I was driving a lot of highway miles. Bought filters from a restaurant supply by the case, 96 in a box.

Sold the car running fine with 365,000 miles on it. And back then road diesel (taxed) was like .70 a gallon. Inexpensive transportation.

http://www.frantzfilters.com/

 

[skeets]

Guess you guys never changed oil in an early TC 88

 

[Tooljunkie]

Yes, i was disgusted to see another hood on the bottom side of a car. Those fibre ones are diapers.
So doing cylinder head on f150 5.4 three valve, i pull fan/shroud and i can stand between rad and engine. Yet i cannot fit my hand between rear of engine and firewall.
Keep making stuff more complicated and expensive to repair. It is getting worse. 100 plus fasteners and thirty electrical connectors. 20+ hours later one cylinder head replaced.
Not going to do that again.
88 chrysler 4 cylinder-4 hours. Could replace pistons in a 3.3 v6 in one good day.

Couple more years,wont even need a hood release lever, retun to dealer....

 

[Daren Todd]

On quite a few newer vehicles, especially trucks, they remove the cab. They have a lift at the dealer especially made for that purpose. We had an 08 f550 flat bed, that had a headache rack and cab guard. Spent quite a bit of time at the dealers.

They would first send the truck to the body Shop. They would cut the cab guard off the bed, send truck back over to the maintenance shop. They would remove the cab, do the work, then reinstall the cab and send back to the body Shop to get the cab guard welded back on They did the same for my 09 f150. Would pop the cab off, do the work the reinstall the cab.

 

[Tooljunkie]

I spent a year at a ford dealership, next to the diesel tech. Its like he did that daily. I dont have the luxury of lifting a cab. Nor the a/c the equipment to evacuate/refill.

Wife says i need another hoist, can you believe that?you read right.

 

[KennedyFarmer]

There are several makes and models of lexus, BMW, Mercedes, and other high end cars that come without a drain plug. Dealer uses a machine to suck the oil out of the engine. It's to force a customer to have to bring the vehicle to the dealer for service. Coworker used to be a mechanic for GM and mentioned some of the other brands that had similar practices.

Not sure how they came up with the 13,000 mile between oil changes.

The oil suckers aren't that expenisve I have a simple hand pump one.

 

[Sharryn]

Sounds like the idiots that developed these "no-spill" plastic gas can spouts! He should have it rammed up his place where the sun don't shine. I've spilled more gas in one attempt since they made those things than in all the years before combined.

 

[helomech]

You should see the torque procedure for the main rotor head on a S-92, or a AW-139. Can take 8 hours just to torque it.