Today I did my first oil change on the 8. I bought 4 quarts of Castrol GTX 5W-20 oil and a Mobil1 M1-108 oil filter from Advance Auto Pats along with a hand pump and a filter wrench. The filter was pretty tough to access. It's stuck between the engine and the firewall and getting to it took some doing. The hand pump was small so it didn't pull out a lot of oil with each stroke. As a result, the change took longer than I wanted but with the weather being what it is (cold and windy) it beat trying to lift up the car and changing the oil the normal way.
With the hand pump I extracted about 2 quarts of oil. This may seem low but it was actually okay. The oil level was on the low end to begin with and the difference between the low mark and the high mark on the dipstick is about 1.8 quarts. Most 8 owners report getting about 3.7 quarts of oil out when they do their oil changes so between the 2 quarts I got out and the 1.8 quarts that were "missing" I'm confident that I got out all of the oil I could. My confidence was bolstered by the fact that I poured in about 3.5 quarts of new oil to get the level up to just below the high mark on the dipstick.
All in all it was a pretty easy job. I bought an extra quart of oil to keep in the trunk so that I can add it between the oil changes as needed.
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