A little oil change help

[BeRad]

Gonna do the 1st change this weekend. What's the best side of the car to lift to do the change? Front, driver side, passenger side? thx, BeRad

[BluStreak]

Don't know, I have taken mine back to saturn every time. I buy my own oil and take it in. Then it only cost about $20 at the dealer. Which isn't bad since they check over everything else and wash the car.

[CSCC 148]

I'd put the car up on ramps. That's what I do. It's safer that way since the oil plug is way back there...

[Sp00ner]

If you can reach the plug, you don't need to lift it at all, I didn't. Have you found the oil filter yet?

[SilverRedLine04]

i havent even looked at my car, isnt the filter where the 2.2 ecotec is at?
oh shit the s\c charger is there.

i'll check it out after work

keith-

[Sp00ner]

Not sure if it's in the same place on those, haven't seen one, but it's to the right (driver's side) of the supercharger, kinda under and behind the throttle body, in a small crevice. It blew my mind the first time I went to do it, I looked at it for 10 min, and just said 'I'll wait'. Went out and did it the next weekend, and it's alot easier than it looks...

[Sp00ner]

Originally Posted by BluStreak

Don't know, I have taken mine back to saturn every time. I buy my own oil and take it in. Then it only cost about $20 at the dealer. Which isn't bad since they check over everything else and wash the car.

I just don't like another man touching my car, it's like some guy feelin up my girl at the bar...

[navymitch12]

spooner i did mine the same way, slide under it on the ground in the parking lot and unbolt the oil plug, the rest it done above the car, and yes the oil filter is in the same place as the 2.2L and the supercharger is there haha tricky right

[CSCC 148]

Originally Posted by navymitch12

spooner i did mine the same way, slide under it on the ground in the parking lot and unbolt the oil plug, the rest it done above the car, and yes the oil filter is in the same place as the 2.2L and the supercharger is there haha tricky right

You guys either have long arms or I'm really wide to not fit under the car.

[Kirtsky]

I put mine up on stands, but that was to take off the wheels and clean them while I was changing the oil. Easiest is to have a long extension for a ratchet to reach the filter cap from top.