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Tags: <substitute-tool><car><liquids>
Title: How can I add oil to a car without a funnel?
Question: Say the oil light turns on in my car, so I check the dipstick and it's low. I have an extra quart in the trunk...  ...but I don't have a funnel to pour the oil through.  I once tried pouring straight from the bottle, but since it was a windy day, oil went where it shouldn't have. How can I pour  all  the oil into the engine?

Answers:
sents: text: You could grab like 1 or more pieces of paper, stacked together, and make your own funnel/backboard like mechanism.
text: If you have cardboard paper, I'd use that, since it's stronger.
text: You could use tape to make something very much like the shape of a plastic funnel, or you could just hold it together with your hand.
text: Then when you're done, just throw the paper in the trash.
answer_details: author: lifehacks.stackexchange.com/users/143/CRABOLO
score: 14
sents: text: You can make a funnel yourself out of a plastic water or soda bottle
text: you may have sitting in your car.
text: Using scissors, a knife, or even your teeth, you can rip through the water bottle and make it look like the image below.
text: Source: wikiHow
answer_details: author: lifehacks.stackexchange.com/users/20/michaelpri
score: 14
sents: text: Pouring quickly helps, but if you hold the container close to the hole you are pouring it into it should work.
text: Alternatively Making a Aluminium foil funnel should work.
text: You may opt out of using foil though and cut the top off a water bottle and pour the oil that way.
text: Also, the plastic and foil may last longer than a paper or cardboard one.
answer_details: author: lifehacks.stackexchange.com/users/188/Pobrecita
score: 6
sents: text: Modern plastic 1 quart oil bottles have the funnel built in.
text: In the old days of one quart cans of oil, you either used a spout or opened the can with a can opener and poured into a funnel.
text: You will note that on a modern oil container the spout is offset to one side.
text: The design is meant to place close to the oil opening of the engine and once started you simply tilt it up vertical inserting the spout into the opening.
text: While the use of a funnel may be necessary on some engines because of an awkward oil cap placement, generally speaking using a funnel to add oil is reinventing the wheel, and will cause more mess and problems then it solves.
answer_details: author: lifehacks.stackexchange.com/users/117/Jon
score: 3
sents: text: the other answers are good but also to help reduce the glugging, therefore the increases the accuracy, pour it so half
text: the pouring hole has oil flowing through it.
text: this can be done by tipping the bottle slowly or by turning the bottle so that the longest edge of the bottom parralell with the ground.
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answer_details: author: lifehacks.stackexchange.com/users/15794/Topher Brink
score: 1
sents: text: A gas station will give you a disposable paper funnel (they look like these: https://www.freshwatersystems.com/p-9496-1000-konie-10-oz-disposable-paper-funnels-8-sleeves-of-125.aspx ).
text: Use the right tool for the job, don't try to create a makeshift funnel unless it's your option of last resort.
answer_details: author: lifehacks.stackexchange.com/users/110/Jon Leibowitz
score: 0

Summary of the answers:
You could try making a make-shift funnel using pieces of paper, aluminium foil or a plastic water bottle. Alternatively, some new bottles have a funnel included, and some gas stations will provide you with a disposable funnel.
The options are to try making a funnel out of paper, aluminium foil or a plastic bottle, to get a modern oil container with built-in funnel or to get a disposable paper funnel from a gas station.