one, two, three, four! Rev up your engines! It's time for the Scotty Kilmer Channel today I'm going to show how to correctly
change oil in a modern car, now over the years, both cars and the oil that goes
in them have changed, for instance in my old Toyota Celica here, I use
conventional motor oil, and change it every 3,000 miles,
that's how older cars were made, but a modern car like this Toyota Matrix, that
has variable valve timing, it's much more complex, and really requires a synthetic
oil, these oils are lighter for tighter tolerances, in this case, it's a 5w30 oil,
so you match it with this Platinum oil that's also a five-way dirty oil, and of
course, you can use any quality synthetic oil, I'm using this because it's a good
oil, and it was on sale at Walmart for five bucks a quart, and in the case of
this 2007 matrix Toyota requires five thousand mile oil changes, now if you
have a late-model car, like this Toyota, that uses a 0w oil, you can use the Pens ultra platinum full synthetic oil, and you only need to change it every ten
thousand miles, or once a year, which is what Toyota suggests, to change it once
every ten thousand miles or once a year, and if you're going to change your oil
that less frequently, you really need a better oil filter, than some of the cheap
ones, that don't filter that well, but how can you tell if the filters better or
not, well first let's weight them to see which has more material in them,
okay now the cheaper auto light filter it weighs 160 grams, while the Platinum
filter, it weighs 192 grams, so it's obviously more in the fancy filter, well
let's call them in half and look inside, we got the grinder and cut a
half, I will cut the Platinum in half too now we'll compare the insides, the
cheaper filter and the expensive ones have the same type of shell, but the seal
on the cheaper one melted right off and fell, well the one here just stuck on the
better filter, so it's got a better seal on it to begin with, but the main
difference is the filtration material, the cheaper one you can see has much
less pleat, so there's less surface area and it uses a cheaper paper material,
well this is a better composite one that can hold a lot more dirt, and when we
look at the bottom of the filters the anti drain back valve, it's real cheap
made out of plastic on a cheaper filter, but here it's all metal with a metal
spring, so it's going last a lot longer, so if you're going through all the
trouble using the right oil for your engine, you might as well use the right
filter that's going filter it for a long time, and now I'm gonna show you how easy
it is to change your own oil, you just have to jack the car up a little because all
modern cars are pretty low to the ground, now some guys who are really were to put
a jack stand under here, but really we're just jacking a car up the tires are
still on the car, so even if it went down the car would still land on the tires, it
wouldn't crush you, and here's what years of experience have taught me a lot,
sometimes it's hard to get those drain plugs off, so get a long bar like this,
with a socket on it, then you can easily pull it loose, and of course you have your
drain pan ready to catch the oil when it comes out, here's the oil drain plug, you
just put the socket on, and give it a big pull, and with your fingers
and gloves so you don't hurt anything, out it comes, and of course realize that you
should run your engine for maybe five minutes, and let it sit for 10 minutes
before changing the oil, so the oil is warmed up and flows better, but it's not
too hot that's why you wait ten minutes to change it, and realize, for the drain
plug it's good idea to get a new gasket every time to put on, before you put it
back on to make sure it doesn't leak, then once it stops dripping, put the plug
on with your fingers, then put the socket on to make it nice and tight, and comes
the oil filter, know that I'm strong, so I can unscrew these things by hand, but
sometimes they stick on or maybe your not that strong, so they
make these simple tools that cost about seven bucks at autozone, they go right on
the oil filter, and you put a wrench and an extension on them, and then they can
turn them off real easy, now before you put the new oil filter on, here's a tip,
stick your finger in the oil, wipe it around the lip, where the seal is, that
makes it seal better, plus it makes it easier to take off next time, then you
just screw the filter back, on make it nice and snug, then you just pour the
correct amount of oil back in, and there's two ways of doing that, you can either look it up on your book, google it and find what it is, or you can
do it the old-fashioned way, you can check it before you change it, make sure
it's full, then measure exactly what comes out and put the same amount back in,
you can't beat that, and then the question arises, what do you do with the
old oil, well I pour mine in a container and take it to a recycling center, and
many auto parts stores take your old oil too, you can just pour it back in the
containers it came in and give it back to them, and they'll recycle it, so now
you know how to correctly change oil in a modern car, because you don't want to
ruin one of these fancy modern engines they cost a fortune to repair, and oil
changes are simple and quick, and remember if you've got any car questions
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