Oil and filter, brake fluid flush, air filters. Battery soon. Hardest part was getting the old oil filter off. The tech at the dealer where it was CPO last year did a number on it. It took about all the grunt I could muster to get it off. Damn. I tried to torque the new one to 30nm, but it was so tight with the torque wrench I probably over did it a little too. Hand tight next time in a year. Used Motul 8100 X-power, 10W-60 and Motul RBF 600. Straight forward job. I didn’t do the two front oil lines. Figured with 13L of oil, new filter, and low miles it’ll be fine. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
New battery. Interstate from Costco. MTX-49/H8, AGM. After reading most of the threads here I got myself pepped for lots of aggravation. Wasn’t that bad after all. Some points of BS that are engineered in but easy to work around them. Start to finish was 2.5 hours with a slow start. Wasted way too much time trying to secure the hold down bolts so they wouldn’t drop to who knows where. Plus super careful not to drop their nylock nuts and washers. I ended up using a couple alligator things from Battery Tender connectors. Worked well to hold them up and out of the way. A few pictures if it helps anyone. Starting point. Image Unavailable, Please Login Loosen the negative bolt, blue, to swing the cable out of the way. Remove the negative quick connect point, green. Then remove the hold down plate. Image Unavailable, Please Login As others have said, what the hell is this thing in red for?! Just gets in the way but wasn’t as bad as I was expecting. The blue item was a pain too. Interfered big time when putting the new battery in. Image Unavailable, Please Login Generally, adequate space. My zip tie trick to hold up the hold down bolt didn’t work. The left/passenger side hold down bolt really grabbed the heat shield so had to work it in just right. It’s the heat shield side that folds over and snaps closed. Image Unavailable, Please Login New and old. Image Unavailable, Please Login Old battery. Image Unavailable, Please Login Last time supposedly changed by an F dealer during CPO. Didn’t think they used Interstate. Maybe they fudged the paperwork. Image Unavailable, Please Login Old. Image Unavailable, Please Login Process… Image Unavailable, Please Login The clamp/bracket that would not let the new battery pass. Plus its bolt was very loose. Found another loose bolt too. Image Unavailable, Please Login
More… I made a bracket to hold it back and held in place with gaffer tape. Worked great. Battery slid by. In blue is my trick to hold those bolts out of the way. Image Unavailable, Please Login The side of the heat shield that grabbed on the bracket thing. I wasn’t the first to deal with it. Image Unavailable, Please Login It’s in. Image Unavailable, Please Login Reconnected. Image Unavailable, Please Login Back together and everything reset and working. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Air filters. Didn’t know there are two different part numbers. This is the one (2 of them) I bought. It doesn’t have the carbon filter attachment that were on the old ones I replaced. Image Unavailable, Please Login Part number for the one with the carbon filter attachment. About twice the price. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Just did my battery today. It took 30 minutes from start to finish (this isn’t my first battery change ) A couple of points to speed things up; 1 it isn’t necessary to remove the oil filler cap. 2 it isn’t necessary to remove the negative quick release cable from the tie down bar. New (the camera didn’t catch the full CCA but it was 1184) Image Unavailable, Please Login Old (the CCA wasn’t as weak as some old batteries that I’ve pulled but cranking is consistently slow, leading to electrical dropouts. We are going skiing in a week and with the sub-zero temps, it’s asking for trouble using a 3.5 year old battery, especially given that I normally change them every two years)
Next time will be much quicker. Agree on your 1 and 2. I followed the lead from other posts. Definitely an easy DIY.
