I've heard mention of these things for a few years now, but it felt exorbitant to spend so much when, meh, it's an oil change for frog's sake, it's not so hard, just get under and get it done.

But lately I've found myself dragging my feet about doing it. Perhaps I'm like a fine wine whose maturation has made it sick of scootching around on dusty driveways and getting pebbles in my hair, dropping drain plugs and getting oil on my ratchet. Wines gets this way as they age, they want more ease in their busy lives.

So I splurged and then tried this on my wife's car yesterday. I don't know whether to cry or hug the canister close to my heart or both "” it worked beautifully and was so easy.

Now, my wife's car was a great first go because I can also get at the oil filter from the top, so I didn't even need to wear my shop clothes. Totally clean job all around, done fast, too easy to be believed.

Tomorrow I'm doing my Toyota and, sadly, the oil filter is only accessible from under. But the ease and cleanliness of this will gladden my heart there too, I'm less dready about it tonight by far. Highly recommended, superb build quality.

My only gripe is that when you pump the handle you must be careful not to pinch your fingers on the way down. Also, kind of hard to see how much oil is collected inside on a bright day. But I could see it well enough in the shade, and it has handy liter/quart marks on the side to make it easy.

You get my gist "” highly recommended, make your life easier and get one of these.

I'm on my second one so far. This one is way easier to use than the original design that I bought about 7 years ago. So far so good!

It worked. Pumping the handle created suction pulling oil out. Had to repump several times over 1/2 hour. Hooked the pnumatic function up to the air compressor but didn't notice anything happened. No directions and if self evident it didn't work for me as many others reported being pleased with the pneumatic method for sucking up the fluid.

I love this pump everything works perfectly fine with it. The most I love about it is the size I was able to extract all oil at once and my car uses about 8 quarts of oil. I have a Q7 can't recommend it enough.

Bottom line is that this product works. I changed my oil in Mercruiser 4.5L 200HP pretty quick after warming the engine and running antifreeze for winterization. Suction was plentiful running manually without the need for compressed air. Dumping the used oil was easy and mess free. Good quality of materials which should lend to several years of use.