Modular Oil Changes in 90 seconds - Plug & Play

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  1. BruceK

    BruceK Active Member

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    Castrol has come up with a new (and I'm sure quite expensive) way to conduct a complete oil change in 90 seconds. It's plug and play technology applied to doing a full oil change by replacing a box about the size of a conventional car battery.

    Practical details on how this works are missing from the Castrol press release (as in completely non-existent!). Perhaps that is because the concept is really so simple it's nothing to brag about?

    My thought is this probably works only on a dry-sump engine and the fancy new Castrol box simply acts as the replacement reservoir for the oil with some sort of quick-disconnects.

    Pictures and the press release are here: Castrol Nexcel is an oil change in a box
     
  2. Metalman

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    Sooo... A nice "cheap" carbon fiber box that holds the required quantity of oil with a integrated oil filter... Changed in 90 seconds.... But probably costs at least $300-$400 per oil change... Probably only available from the dealer...

    The auto companies want "sealed" engines....
    They probably also like the idea of "Plug & Play" oil changes that they control as well....
    They are slowly plugging all the money loopholes the DIYers enjoy today...:mad:
     
  3. Crashton

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    Sealed hood comes next. No user serviceable parts inside. :incazzato:
     
  4. Angib

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    More or less as proposed by Porsche back in 1973 with the FLA long life car study. This was a fascinating attempt to build a really long-life car. If my memory serves, this had an expected life of a million miles (or maybe km) with service intervals of 100,000 miles or so. Fitting an opening bonnet/hood with hinges didn't make sense for such little use, so the bonnet/hood bolted in place, with access hatches for fluid checks/top-ups. They reckoned it would only cost two to three times as much as an ordinary car.......

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    Porsche FLA (Wikipedia)

    Porsche FLA (Jalopnik)
     
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    The Fuch wheels are the only thing that tells me that's a Porsche.
     
  6. Crashton

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    The whole thing looks rather Fuched up to me......
     

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