Anyone happen to know of any shops in the SF Bay Area where I could buy one of these? Don't want to buy online if I can find one locally.

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Any marine (as in boating, not armed forces) store will carry this one. I'm on the East coast and I've seen it in 4 different chains for marine equipment stores. Seems that boaters have been using topsiders for years. It is about $39 which is about 3/4 of the cost of the dealer oil change. I changed my oil 11 times last year (28,000 miles with 230,300 miles overall).

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dtf
1994 E320 Wagon (Died @ 308,669 miles)
1995 E300 Diesel (228,000)
1999 E300 Turbodiesel ( died @ 255,000)
2006 Toyota Tundra SR5 AC 4X4 (115,000 miles) rusted frame - sold to chop shop
2011 Audi A4 Avant (165,000 miles) Seized engine - donated to Salvation Army
BMW 330 xi 6 speed manual (175,034 miles)
2014 E350 4Matic Wagon 128,000 miles
2018 Dodge Ram 21,000 miles

I got mine at West Marine here in Sacramento. They have many stores in the Bay area. See www.westmarine.com

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Oupa
1988 300e

I use a 5 gallon plastic bucket and polyethylene tubing (3/8" OD, I think) hooked up to my garage vacuum cleaner. It works great, and has no problem sucking the 15W-50 out of my 1995 E420.

$4 for the bucket, $5 for the tubing, and I used an old metal trash can as an insert to keep the plastic bucket from collapsing under vacuum. ABout 15 minutes is all it takes.

I love not having to remove the lower cover for every oil change - what a pain. It gets every drop out of there too.

I like my homemade version better than the topsider because I have a bout a 4-1/2 gallon capacity. Now I can get 2 oil changes in before I have to empty at the recycling station.

Troy
1995 E420 85k

If you want to suck oil, I don't think you want a Topsider, but a MityVac. I've had both. The MityVac is far far far superior.

http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/showthread.php?t=88941&highlight=mityvac+topsider

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David
1986 300E Anthracite + ECodes + MB Mileage Award

I've used both the MityVac and the Liquivac. The Mity Vac is definitely a superior product and worth the extra cost in my opinion.

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Ali Al-Chalabi

2001 CLK55
1999 Dodge Ram 2500 Cummins Diesel
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