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yeah, like kia having the skid cover the oil pan. Or subaru requiring that you remove a front wheel well panel to change a headlight.
by sjg007 8y ago
yeah, like kia having the skid cover the oil pan. Or subaru requiring that you remove a front wheel well panel to change a headlight.
- sokoloff 8y agoHaving a skid plate covering (read: protecting) the oil pan seems like a good design to me.
- sjg007 8y agoproblem is that there is no access hatch, you have to remove the whole plate to get to the drain.
- sokoloff 8y agoThat probably means the factory intended for topside oil changes. I switched to topside oil changing about 7-8 years ago and it's tremendously more convenient. I didn't trust it at first, so the first 3 I did, I did the vacuum process and then removed the plug. Never got enough oil out of the plug area to fill much more than a tablespoon, so I became a believer. I use the MityVac 07300 and can recommend it highly if you have a good sized compressor to run it. They also sell a manual pump version.
- sjwright 8y agoI've replaced a headlight behind a front wheel panel before, though in a different brand of car. It wasn't difficult; just a bit more awkward. (And with new cars quickly moving to LED lights, we won't be changing them very often anyway.)