Oil Change: Threaded Funnel, Jacking, Oil Use

I use a piece oi appropriately 6x9 inch frozen food package cardboard rolled into a funnel. It fits tightly and stays tight in the oil fill hole.

It's basically free and totally disposable with no mess.

For jacking, I use this custom pinch weld adapter.



10,000 miles is too long.

3,000 to 5,000 max.

 

Better than nylon. Ultra durable UHMW Spectra. Hard to cut with the pinch weld "knife edge" even with the car's weight landing on it.

 

Here's an interesting funnel idea, fashioned from an empty oil quart bottle, with offset neck. Maybe requires particular thread style:

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Still think you should persevere with making the front/rear jacking points work; rolling the front onto low-rise ramps as needed for initial clearance. I do that often, gets easy. The only car I raise from the side is a Tesla 3, 'cus Elon didn't think it needed front/rear jack points.

 

I used a screw in funnel for an oil change for the first time recently, it really is a great tool. Previously, I used a regular funnel, but it didn't go in very far due to all of the valve train parts under the fill hole, so the funnel tended to fall over to one side.