![]() ![]() We're going to put our collection receptacle underneath the oil filter. Wipe it off, looks like it's nice and clean, now I'll move up here. I'm going to use my 15 millimeter wrench, and turn it so it bottoms out, and then just give it a little bit, just like that. I'm just going to go ahead, and I'm going to put in the drain plug, turning it clockwise, which is to the right. It's just going to keep going, and going, and going. I can wait a couple more days, and let it keep on dripping. I've got this thing, so it pretty much stopped trickling, it's just a slow drip here. Okay, so I've got my drain plug all nice and cleaned up. If it looks like it's garbage, just go ahead and replace it if you have access to that, okay? You want to make sure that you have a good seal, you don't want your oil dripping out of your oil pan. You want to make sure that it's not cracked, or stretched, or anything like that, swollen. Lastly, there's a gasket right there, it's a rubber gasket on this particular vehicle. Cross threaded would mean that somebody tried putting it in, they didn't have it started in right, and they just cranked it in anyway. While we've got our drain plug out, we can check the threads, make sure they're not all munched up or look like they're cross threaded. Just going to wipe it off, and I'll show you what to look for on this. I'm just going to take my 15 millimeter wrench, and I'm going to turn this drain plug counter-clockwise to the left. Wear some safety glasses, some hand protection, oil's a chemical, very dangerous for you. But you're going to want to be very careful, to make sure that when you pull your drain plug right here, the fluid's going to come out and it's going to prob come backward a little bit, you know what I mean? So, you're going to want to make sure you have your face nowhere near it. ![]() I'm lucky enough to have a lift, if you don't, and you're laying on the ground, well good luck. All right, so we're underneath the vehicle now. So, I'm going to wait on it, but I wanted to show you it. You can look down inside here, all the way down there, that's the oil filter, it's going to be much easier to get from down bottom. I'm just going to pull it up, leave it like this for now. Cool, so right here's the oil dipstick, this is how you're going to check your oil when you're done, okay? It's pretty basic, but I'm just going to state it. If you put it right here, you trying closing the hood, it's not going to close. You just close the hood and then drive away, that could become an issue. We can put this someplace else, and you do your thing and maybe your friend, or whatever, calls you, and you walk away and you forget if you added oil. But anyway, dexos approved, 5W-30 oil, okay? We'll set this right here, that way there we can't forget to put oil in it. It's a Chevrolet, so they recommend a very special oil for this, you don't want to use regular 5W-30, you can look into why, I'm sure you can find it all over the internet, and they'll tell you about it. It's very important that the oil you use is dexos approved. It tells us what kind of oil we need to use. All right, so one of the first things that we want to do, once we pop the hood, we're going to take the oil cap, we want to take a look at it. If you need any parts, or instructional videos, you can always check us out at. It's going to be very simple, I want to be the guy that shows you how to do it. Hey friends, it's Len here at 1A Auto, today we're working on a 2015 Chevy Equinox, we're going to be doing a quick oil change. ![]()
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