Thoughts on oil bottles...

[Rocketdoc]

Today was oil-changing day on our cars. As I was putting in new oil (Havoline in one, Mobil 1 in the other) I realized that I really don't like the wide-mouth openings that the oil companies put on the quart bottles now. It used to be that the smaller snout would fit in the oil-fill opening and hold the bottle upright while it drained. Now the bottle snout is too big to fit the hole. Fortunately, the shampoo-bottle funnel that threads perfectly into my 2002 24V also threads perfectly into our Ford Explorer.



Anybody have any idea why the oil guys decided that changing the bottles so that they wouldn't fit into most oil-fills was a good idea? The only thing I can think of is that they want us to buy funnels, most of which are plastic, and are made from the petroleum products they also sell.....



Any wide-mouth advantage I'm missing here???



Merry Christmas to all!

 

[WDixon27]

i also dislike the big mouth bottles, i remember seeing the adds when they were new saying how much more convenient they are, yea now i gotta find a funnel or puke oil down the side of the motor that's much better

 

[jwduke]

I agreem they suck. Plastic company that made the bottles, must not have checked any vehicles to see how well they worked.

 

[ata]

I think they were made that way so they would pour without BURPING oil all over the engine. Either way I have to use a Funnel.

 

[WDixon27]

yea instead of burping it all over you just miss the hole with the mighty stream of oil, or in the case of some cars overflow it out the valve cover due to the baffles in the cover not being designed to flow that much

 

[vnapple]

I saved a couple of screw-on tips from honey bottles that screw right on the wide mouth oil bottles. I cut one back to a large hole to fill oil with, and the other cut back a little less to fill my diffs with. Works great. A little slow, but no mess.



Merry Christmas,

Vinny