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Originally Posted By: jsinton
Originally Posted By: CATERHAM
You still have the used filter partially filled with oil plus the paper cup with used oil to dispose of even more frequently.
And how are you doing that? From the sound of things they are not being returned to the appropriate place that one returns used oil for recycling?
If you just want to avoid jacking up the car you can pump the oil out of the the dipstick tube into a used oil jug and leave the oil filter on for a couple of oil changes. That would seem to be a more efficient approach if you value your time.
You make assumptions. I store used oil in any spare water bottle on the road to recycle later, or dump it in my waste oil container at home. And it stays clean because I change the filter, not because I add oil so much. Besides, sucking out oil from the tube doesn't sound so easy or convenient to me.
A filter doesn't filter out visible particulate. The filters on diesel engines (think bypass filtration or centrifuges) are far more efficient than your typical automotive filter and that oil still gets jet black in short order.
Your oil is staying visibly clean because, as CATERHAM noted, you are replacing some of it every time you swap the filter.
Originally Posted By: CATERHAM
You still have the used filter partially filled with oil plus the paper cup with used oil to dispose of even more frequently.
And how are you doing that? From the sound of things they are not being returned to the appropriate place that one returns used oil for recycling?
If you just want to avoid jacking up the car you can pump the oil out of the the dipstick tube into a used oil jug and leave the oil filter on for a couple of oil changes. That would seem to be a more efficient approach if you value your time.
You make assumptions. I store used oil in any spare water bottle on the road to recycle later, or dump it in my waste oil container at home. And it stays clean because I change the filter, not because I add oil so much. Besides, sucking out oil from the tube doesn't sound so easy or convenient to me.
A filter doesn't filter out visible particulate. The filters on diesel engines (think bypass filtration or centrifuges) are far more efficient than your typical automotive filter and that oil still gets jet black in short order.
Your oil is staying visibly clean because, as CATERHAM noted, you are replacing some of it every time you swap the filter.