Actually, no, I haven't, because I see no reason to let the car sit overnight before changing the oil. I have to start it up to at least move it onto the ramps to get underneath the car to change the oil.

 

I'm not stubborn about it, but yes that is the difference. I can't wait for the day when I have covered, garaged parking for all 4 vehicles I maintain, and then I won't ever spill warm oil.

Dave

 

If you have room, next time put the car on ramps the night before. Changing the oil on a cold engine has always been easier for me. No hot parts to avoid. No hot oil. No hot environment. No oil dripping from the filter. A very clean comfortable way to do it.

Try it, you may like it

 

Eh, again, no reason. Pretty easy to avoid touching hot parts while pulling off the oil drain plug with the car up on ramps, and I use an oil filter socket to remove that component. No oil drips from the filter due to the drainback valve. I like it that way .

 

Well, I've never tried it cold on any car, isn't it harder to have the pan drain completely? How long does it take?

 

Cold oil drains just fine. If it didn't, it would be difficult to pour it out of the bottle when filling the engine. I don't think anyone heats their oil before pouring it in

 

C'mon Kento. Too set in your (old) ways to try something new??? Try it once. What can it hurt

 

when I had my Firebird, I noticed a significant difference (i.e. a couple seconds) between installing the filter dry and filled up, in terms of oil presuure

 

AyYiYi (spelling?). If you guys are worried about the millisecond it takes for oil to pump to the filter then you better give up on this car. First, you never have dry bearings or oil passages in the engine if it has been run with oil even once. Otherwise, someone explain to me how an S4 engine that sat on my garage floor for a year and a half drained of oil still had oil in the oil passages and bearings on disassembly. The need to pump oil through an engine is to replenish the oil in the passages and bearings with fresh, cool oil. This is to dissipate heat and maintain the liquid properties of oil--that's how it lubricates. Consequently, enough oil "hangs" on the bearings and in the passages to sustain lubrication for the very brief period it takes to pump oil to the engine. Anything else is just being ****.

 

But that's what this forum section is all about!