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Originally Posted by Spuds
Because with a middle step you can put the old oil back into the jugs the new oil came out if
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Same here, although this poses a challenge - a 5 quart bottle isn't enough to fill the engine, so you use 2. But at the end of the oil change you have one empty bottle and one that's half full, so you don't have enough room for all the used oil (despite the deceptively large amount of air in the original bottle - ask me how I know). So you still need some extra jugs to store the left over oil. I use a 16 quart open drain pan with a decent drain spigot, it keeps the mess to the pan, which I store upright so no need to clean it (it's only used for oil, not coolent). The enclosed drain pans sound like a great idea (where the pan can serve as a container) but then you'd have to really clean the outside where the oil was.