3.7
Draining or suctioning off engine oil and
filling up with engine oil
Special tools and workshop equipment required
♦ Old oil collecting and suction equipment e.g. - VAS 6622-
Note
The engine oil should always be changed, if possible, when
♦
the engine is at normal operating temperature.
It is absolutely necessary to observe the oil disposal instruc‐
♦
tions!
It is not permitted to clean and re-use the oil filter!
♦
Drain off/suction off engine oil
– Take off cap.
Vehicles with petrol engines with replacement oil filters
– Loosen oil filter and unscrew
⇒ "3.8.1 Replace oil filter with replacement oil filter for petrol
engines ", page 54
. To this end, remove sound dampening
system for filters applied laterally to the motor.
Vehicles with petrol engines with replacement oil filter element
– Remove engine cover.
– Loosen oil filter cover -arrow- with socket insert SW 32 and
partially unscrew it.
– Wait a few minutes so that the oil flows out of the oil filter
housing and back into the engine.
– Remove the noise insulation.
– Drain engine oil as follows:
Work procedure for petrol engines with a metal oil pan
Drain engine oil at 1st. oil change
Drain engine oil after 1st. oil change
Drain engine oil at 1st. oil change
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