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Originally Posted by extrashaky
Or you can use your Subaru roadside assistance to have the car towed home, order a sampling kit from Blackstone (free) and do all that yourself. Catch the oil in the sample bottle as it drains, not from the contaminated drain pan you use (which is where a shop would likely dip for your sample). Be sure to indicate on your oil sample report that you took the sample cold, so they know to adjust for condensation. If you can't wait for the sample kit to arrive before getting the car back on the road, you can catch the sample in some other CLEAN, dry plastic or glass container that you can seal, then transfer it to the sample bottle once it arrives. I would email or call Blackstone for suggestions on what to use.
Put the oil sample double bottle in a padded envelope and send it via any method OTHER than USPS, because they suck hippo balls and will quarantine your sample for a month while they try to pull their heads out of their rectums to figure out that the container is not hazardous material. I usually send mine UPS Ground, but you may want to expedite yours to get your results faster.
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Hey, good call with the roadside assistance. I linked to Blackstone because you guys all use it. I haven't yet but will soon. Just installed my fumoto valve.
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Originally Posted by extrashaky
You can do that yourself also. You can pick up a manual oil pressure test kit from Harbor Freight for $25 (or $20 with their 20% off coupon). It has a six foot hose on it so you can read the pressure while sitting in the car and can turn it off quickly if you have no pressure. You can either pull the oil pressure switch and put the manual fitting in its place, or there's a plug in the oil gallery on top of the engine next to the A/C compressor you can tap into if you want to be able to see both the manual gauge and the warning on your dash if you suspect the switch to be bad.
Probably easier to let a shop do all this, but it's not entirely necessary.
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OP doesn't strike me as the DIY type, at least not yet. Let us be gentle with the young grasshopper.
Oh, and I'll restate my agreement with you guys that the published acceptable usage does smack of BS in a 21st century engine but, meh, like Strat said, #subielyfeyo.