A new way to change your oil

[bigals]

Have just watched this on the BBC, looks like a new way to tie in oil suppliers with car manufactures as I cant imagine it will be cheep to buy a refill but as with printer cartridges I am sure someone will work out a way to refill the cartridge without having to go back to the original manufacture

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34541834

[bigals]

nice carbon box tho

[dombanks]

That video explained nothing... Looks a bit like a dry sump system that uses a plug in cartridge as a reservoir??

Just read a few things about it and it looks well nifty. It could be interesting for a car like ours if indeed it does work a bit like a dry sump.

[CraigHew]

Ah well we can all buy Astons for our daily driver then.....

[jeff oakley]

It Is Castrol who are very good at showing manufacturers how to save time on a production line. Imagine if all they ever have to do is just plug in a box of oil on the production line? from what I have been told by Castrol it is not cheap and will be sometime before it becomes mainstream if at all.

[SootySport]

I'd rather have hot oil running down my sleeve when undoing the sump plug,  traditionalist me.

[XTR2Turbo]

Of course the time to drain is not that important as you can be doing something else in the meantime and then come back to it when empty.

[dombanks]

presumably you would still be able to top up the oil like normal. wonder how it would cope with the wrong grade.

[windy]

There are already cars in production that don't need oil changes. The cost saving comes with zero servicing, not in trips to a garage to change a cartridge.

[jeff oakley]

Which ones are these Windy? I am not aware of any but my Volvo has no dipstick and has never needed a top up in 47000 miles so not totally out of the question.

When I was with Castrol speaking the other day, they are very good at getting Castrol in first fill. look under the new Mini bonnet for example, they see this as a way to get a much bigger share at first fill and onwards in the aftermarket. I guess the example of a printer cartridge is a good one, but will people really do that on a car?

[cast iron]

Nissan leaf doesn't need an oil or filter change :-)

[Ian Podmore]

Nissan leaf doesn't need an oil or filter change :-)

But it does need an engine :-)