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These posts are giving me flashbacks to LR3 oil changes with many rusted bolts holding the heavy skid plate. Love the extraction method and will never drain the Defender oil from the bottom.
Same. Every time I change the oil in my Civic the old way my Defender sits mockingly beside me. I'm too stubborn to buy an oil filter socket/wrench so I hammer a screw driver in and twist it out that way.
Very satisfying to do oil changes using the pump. Sucks it all out.
Pouring in 8.8L of fresh oil and seeing that full level on the dipstick. It's like the cherry on the cake.
Same. Every time I change the oil in my Civic the old way my Defender sits mockingly beside me. I'm too stubborn to buy an oil filter socket/wrench so I hammer a screw driver in and twist it out that way.
I'm not sure what is worse...the mid 80's Honda engineer that designed the oil filter location above the suspension arms or every Honda engineer since that never found a better location on the engine block to move it to. Although I did learn to put a quart size Ziplock freezer bag around our Honda Passport oil filter when removing it.
Going back to the discussion of which standard ("STJLR.xx.yyyy"):
Until 2018, the prior spec was shown only for the 2.0L "flat" i4 (P300 in NAS spec). In 2018 for those and their i6 (typically P400 in NAS spec) and V8 motors.
Last edited by Ratledge; Apr 27, 2024 at 05:00 PM.
Curious about how somebody like Jiffy Lube would handle it, I had my oil, filter & air filter changed locally for $42. They did it the hard way, dropping the skid plate and all that fun stuff.
Total vice dealer quoted $1200 was $42 + $96 (2x 5L) for LiquiMoly 0W-20 LR labeled from Amazon plus $12 for the air filter (somebody sent me a pair of JLR P300 oil filters) so $150 though I cheated on the oil filter.
So, I can have it done eight times there for the price of one oil change at my dealer. DIY might get it down to $120 or ten-to-one.
FCP Euro have a sale on Top Tec 0w-20 at the moment. $8 oil filters too. Got another oil change due. $95 +tax. (with 1.2L of oil left over for the next one)
Getting ready to do the first oil change on my wife's 110 V8- I've got several "socket" tools for oil filters and they are either too small or too big. What size is it for the V8?
