Skoda Octavia Maintenance Records and Discussion on Two Ways to Change Oil

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 September 10, 2024
The 13-year-old Skoda Octavia was about to be maintained, so I asked my father to go to the store to change the oil and maintain the car.
As soon as we parked at the workstation, the boss asked us to park inside.
Because another car will come soon to change the oil from outside.
Business in the store is not bad. It seems that in addition to osmanthus flowers in the golden autumn of October, car maintenance and oil change are also popular.
There are two ways to change oil, draw oil and drain oil.
The way we change oil today is to draw oil.
Insert the vacuum tube of the pumping unit into the oil dipstick and
The oil in the oil pan can be directly pumped out.
There is no need to worry about residual oil if you can’t pump it clean.
Replace the oil filter below
Although the power of the car is 6,
But I have always used better fully synthetic engine oil.
Since you can only run less than 10,000 kilometers a year, you usually change the oil once a year.
The oil was exhausted and the little brother was packing up his tools.
The next step is to inject new oil.
I have been using SAIC Volkswagen Shell Black Diamond 0W40
Start slowly injecting new oil,
Because the engine oil port is very small, you cannot pour all the engine oil into it like pouring tea. You can only maintain a certain injection amount to ensure that the engine oil does not flow out.
The little brother is very hard, but he is also very experienced. He crosses there with a move of Changing Tendon Sutra. Maintain this position for a minute.
Insert the oil dipstick when you see that 3 liters of oil are about to be filled.
Through the oil dipstick, you can see that after the amount of oil injected decreased a little, a small amount of oil was injected. After repeatedly checking the scale of the oil dipstick, the oil injection work was truly completed.
It will inevitably spill when pouring oil, so the little brother uses an engine oil cleaner to dispose of the residual engine oil.
Below is the purge air filter element
Blow gun blows on the air filter element,
What needs to be noted here is that air conditioning filter elements are not recommended to be blown with air guns.
Just replace it once a year
Reinstall the air filter element and fix the cover plate with six internal hexagon screws.
This picture shows using gravity oil change method to change oil, commonly known as draining oil.
After finishing work,
Have you seen that my Octavia has been replaced with the front storage box and the rear panel of the center armrest?
Finally, let’s discuss drawing oil and draining oil.
Drain oil: Almost all cars have an oil drain screw on the oil pan. As long as you unscrew this oil drain screw, the oil will flow directly out from here.
The biggest feature of the oil drain screw is that it cannot withstand frequent disassembly. If the number of times is too high, the screw will cause hair. Hair silk means that the oil drain screw is obsolete and must be replaced with a new one. If a slip occurs at the oil pan end, it is very likely that the oil pan will have to be replaced.
Because of the extremely complex design structure of the engine, some oil will more or less remain in some oil passages, and it is impossible to release all the oil 100%.

Pump oil: The way I change the oil today is to pump oil.
Summary: I don’t think there is any difference in essence between putting in oil and pumping out oil, just the form is different. Which method you choose can be completely handed over to the store that maintains the car. You must believe that they are professional.
Thank you for reading.