Re: Quick oil drain plug...

[Glenn Lawton <lawtonglenn@gsmai.com>]

Andrew Duane USG/PE wrote:
> ...It is simply a drain valve. You screw it in once, tightly. Then
> when it's time to change oil, you just flip the valve and all the
> oil drains out. Flip valve closed and refill. ...I have oil change time 
> down to 5 minutes...


I'm all for convenience, Butttttttttt, no way Jose on my car, no no no. 
I could just imagine a stick, a rock, a small animal, pushes on that
flip valve, and poof, I've traded 15-5 = 10 minutes of my admittedly
valuable time for........A NEW ENGINE...........

Even _my_ time is not that valuable.

You know, I'll probably get a thousand posts telling me that it can never
happen, yadda, yadda, yadda. The fact is, it can, and I would spend all
my anal retentive worrying, wondering when it would happen.

If I'd put this valve on, it would actually _cost_ me time, since I would
be under the car 2-3 time per day checking it.

Uncomfortable with "sans-a-belt" trousers,
Glenn Lawton