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When your car is as old as mine, which is 20 years, it may be consuming oil between services! I don't have any external leaks or smoky exhaust, it just consumes a few litres of sump oil in the 12 months between servicing, so I have to keep it topped up. For years I've struggled to fill it cleanly, even with the extension spout on 5L oil bottles, so now I have a 3D printer I designed a custom funnel :o) I just needed the funnel to be higher than the engine's fill hole because that's buried and difficult to reach even with the extension on the bottle, especially when the bottle is full and prone to glugging. I also wanted a broader target so when the oil starts pouring or glugging it's more likely to end up in the hole and not all over the engine! Naturally it rained while I was taking the photos, GRRRR! This model is a snug fit in the 35mm filling hole. My original measurements suggested I'd need cutouts in the base to allow air back out but I got that a bit wrong and the funnel sits well into the hole but stops short of the panel just under the hole so the cutouts probably weren't needed, but they don't do any harm there so I've left them in.  Handily, the funnel fits neatly on the bottle for storage when not in use! Hope this comes in handy for someone else. If you REALLY like it, https://www.buymeacoffee.com/gigabeast :o) I used 0.2mm layers and 0.4mm nozzle, PLA+ is fine so pretty much anything will do, normal temps, no support BUT I'd advise a brim of a few lines for adhesion as the bottom layer is in 4 bits and might get pulled up, up to you, does mean a bit of trimming post-printing to get rid of the brim. Print as orientated in the STL (bottom of the funnel with the cutouts sits on the printbed).