> Adding oil to the engine is an aggravating challenge - trying to pour
> > oil into the filler neck at a near horizontal angle. You are guaranteed
> > to spill some oil and make a mess unless you use a funnel. Then
> > afterwards there is always the question of what to do with the funnel
> > which is now coated with residual oil.
> >
> > The secret - the oil filler neck has an extension telescoped down inside
> > the filler tube. Just grasp the edge of the filler tube between finger
> > and thumb and pull and it slides right out, The rest is self evident.
> > Pretty slick.
>

>>just be careful when you use the oil fill cap to prop open the lisc plate
>>flap... once i dropped it behind the fiberglass bumper...took me 15 minutes to
>>get it out LOL

I had no idea anyone else out there used the oil filler cap to prop open the license plate. I guess given the common necessity, we are compelled to invent similar solutions.� 
I wonder who else has found this little "aid":� once the telescoping filler neck is out, and plastic oil bottle spout is in, I use the bottle to push the filler neck back in allowing the bottle to get nearly vertical. Then having removed the cap from its job holding the license plate open, I let the license plate close on the bottle holding it there to drain. I can't stand seeing all the oil that remains in the bottle after it is drained, which all ends up in the landfill eventually.
By the way, I haven't tried the "propping to drain" on anything but the Diesel Vanagon oil filler neck, have no idea if it works on the WBXR.

Sam M
1981 Westy, 2.0 L I4 
1991 Carat awaiting TDI implant