Why Can't I???

[jsanford]

Originally Posted by Patrick

Next time, I'll ask that they use a funnel.

Weird. When I did my own oil changes in high school, of course I used a funnel. Noone had to even make the suggestion. Big slippery plastic bottle + small hole on shiny metal = funnel. With someone else's car, I'd think it would be common sense, particularly with the fabric-based lining under the hood.

[Rick]

It's really not all that difficult to at least hit the opening where the oil cap is. By the time you fill the filter half way there's at least a little bit out of the first bottle. The trick is to hold the bottle sideways and pour slowly until you can get enough control to pour faster. The Honda oil was easier than the mobil one bottles though. You could actually just put the whole neck in the oil filler hole and cut the bottom off the first bottle and make your own contaminant free funnel out of that.

I did this method on my last oil change when I foregot to grab my own funnel, and I wasn't about to use the available ones that had caked on crud on them. These were the mobil1 bottles with the larger opening so I had to hold the one bottle with the bottom cut out and poured oil in to it. Worked pretty well, this made the first bottle the only challenge.