Oil change drain pan

[Pdwight]

Originally Posted by JFP in PA

Two well known problems with these things:

1. They do not drain all the oil out of the sump.
2. The tubing that you insert into the dipstick tube (which many cars no longer even have) often gets caught on various things inside the sump, preventing its extraction. We just had another car flat bedded into the shop for this exact reason.

From experience, I am not a fan of these units, they cause more problems than they solve. If you cannot jack the car up to drain the oil properly, take it to someone that can.

It got all the oil out of my E36 , only a tiny trickle was left and that stopped in a couple of seconds