newbie here in need of some help from you experts :)

[Tenspeed]

In January I bought an 04 Mini Cooper S and love the thing the death. Its also the first car I feel comfortable working on myself. I never worked on cars before and I swapped out the windshield wiper motor in under 35 minutes so I feel I can do anything! My next 2 projects. I will be doing are an oil change and brake pad/rotor installation. My question here is, I need to do an oil change asap and do not feel like paying $110 to the dealership. What parts and type of oil do I need to get in order to do this? Any help is much appreciated so thank you all for your time

[bad venge]

Here are the how to's I use :
Oil Change
http://webbmotorsports.com/index.php...&id=10&catid=2

Pad/rotor
http://webbmotorsports.com/index.php...w&id=5&catid=2

[Tenspeed]

Wow those are the best how-to's I have seen for this...thank you so much for the info I will hopefully be doing these things over the weekend if the star wars orchestra doesn't occupy all my time on Saturday ^_^

[bad venge]

The 36mm socket is an oddball to find at times

[nelson.jones07]

Yeah that's the best thing with this. Thanks for providing this answer.