Having trouble getting your Oil Filter off?
 

I don't know about anyone else but the filter location on these cars sucks arse and to try and get anything in there is a bit of a pain in the ass. Sometimes the Oil filter tools can be a bit expensive so I was searching round my local Bunnings and found one of these;
[IMG]http://www.tool-up.co.uk/img/fs/BOABABY.jpg[/IMG]

People use them for all sorts of things and I decided to give it a whack at the oil filter.

Anyway these things are cheap and work a treat.

BTW my car was a bitch to do a change on, to low, plastic plates oil filter in a crap location!

I usually put mine on and tighten it correctly when I service it and it comes off by hand.. First time. Every time.

I wasn't the last person to service it, it was a work shop...

[QUOTE=B4BOY;418410]I wasn't the last person to service it, it was a work shop...[/QUOTE]
Well that seal will never have been lubed up either......

if you cant get them off, sometimes you can bang a decent screwdriver through it to get it started then twist away. your removing it anyway.

[QUOTE=B4BOY;418407]I don't know about anyone else but the filter location on these cars sucks arse and to try and get anything in there is a bit of a pain in the ass. [/QUOTE]

Easiest car I've ever had to service...

[QUOTE=tuna;418415]if you cant get them off, sometimes you can bang a decent screwdriver through it to get it started then twist away. your removing it anyway.[/QUOTE]

Done this a few times... works a treat but its usually very messy.

You should try removing the oil filter on a 1st Gen Honda CR-V... its stuck on the back of the block right up the top, you have to squirrel your hand up between a gap in the subframe to get the filter out!! Definitely the worst filter position I've seen, the Subaru one is a dream in comparison!

Old hemi's have the filter mounted upside down, at the top of the block, near the firewall.

Stupidest design ever.

I always thought the subaru ones were nice and easy, clean to drain out.

[quote=topgear;418420]i always thought the subaru ones were nice and easy, clean to drain out.[/quote]

whs ^^^