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On cars with a horizontal oil plug sometimes I unscrew it only most of the way out at first. Oil still comes out, just not so fast (go away, do something else for a while). Then I can pull the plug and it won't shoot everywhere because it's already halfway drained.
My Celica drives me nuts. Every other car I've owned the procedure for changing antifreeze was
- put bucket below radiator
- pull plug, drain, reinstall plug
- refill antifreeze
But on the Celica (2000) it's
- break a few snap clips while fighting with engine bay plastic piece #1
- realize that engine bay plastic piece #2 is holding #1 on, so remove that one too
- look everywhere for the drain plug (gotta be in there somewhere...)
- go on the internet to research, find out where it is from a forum, get mad because everybody else has problems with it too
- pull plug, drain, put plug back in
- reinstall plastic pieces as close to the way it was as possible
- jack up front of the car 2 feet off the friggin floor because of the bizarro refill procedure
- finish, drive around and watch the temp gauge bounce around for the next couple of days while air in the system sorts itself out
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'87 924S (Sold)
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