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Oil change very easy.
1. Get oil, filter.
2. Remove filter from car with 32 mm wrench (if you don't know what the filter housing looks like, use your 32mm socket and find something that fits in the top of the engine--pretty certain it's the only thing on the engine top that uses a 32mm socket).
3. Raise car
4. Phillips screwdriver, open oil drain latch underneath car (dead center, it's a square in the underarmor).
5. Use 13 mm socket and loosen oil drain bolt. Have oil catch ready.
6. Drain oil.
7. When oil finished draining, flush about 2 liters of any good quality synthetic oil through system to clean.
8. Replace oil drain bolt and use new copper crush washer.
9. Lower car.
10. Clean oil filter housing.
11. Replace o-rings in oil filter housing, replace oil filter, close oil filter housing.
12. Fill with six liters of oil.
13. Lift car and check for leaks. If no leaks, close oil drain latch. Lower car.
14. Fill with remaining oil until dipstick shows full.
15. Start car, let run to operating temperature.
16. Stop car, check oil level. Fill if necessary (and it will be).
17. Dispose of old oil pursuant to local regulations.
18. Clean up.
