Hi And Could Anyone Advise Please

[inkell]

Hi to all.

I'm new to the site, I've been searching the net unsuccessfuly to see if I'm making a simple mistake and overlooking something.

A few months ago I changed my 05 d4d estate for a 2010 1.6 estate and am so far more than pleased. I'm a believer in frequent oil changes and change oil and filter every 6000 miles or so and decided last week it was time to change on the new car for the first time. After a bit of searching I found the filter and drain plug and realised that a cup wrench would be needed for the filter.

The wrench was duly ordered and arrived yesterday, oil and filter bought but I'm left feeling rather frustrated. In over 40 years of doing my own maintainance, (oil and brakes etc) I'm beaten by an oil filter for the first time. I noticed what looked like a spring clip and made sure that wasn't stopping anything but I couldn't release the plastic filter casing.

Am i missing something simple, I didn't want to use undo force but just how tight do these get? Any advise/ help would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[cmia]

It should wind all the way off, are you sure you actually got it loose?

[inkell]

Hi cmia,

Thanks for your reply.

I might not have wrote it very well but my problem is that I couldn't loosen the filter at all.i had the cup wrench on a ratchet socket wrench and even with a bit of an extension bar I couldn't move it. I didn't want to proceed giving what I felt was undo force for an oil filter in case I'd missed something or could cause damage to the plastic filter casing.

[Mr.D]

Hi,

If 2010 model has the same oil filter positioning as 2007 model that i have (at the very bottom left corner of engine compartment),then yes excess force is needed. I'm not doing this myself as i don't have possibilities, but i always watch this done in service and no matter how strong a mechanic looks like,they all tend to strugle each time.

[cmia]

Its probably been tighten too much.

It should just wind off.

[Mel Tinys Taxis]

Sounds Barmy I know but try tightening by just a Tad if it moves just a fraction it should then undo works with the odd nut and bolt so may work here.

Best of luck,

Mel.

[TomdeGuerre]

At first I thought you were dealing with a regular "spin off" and throw away filter and it was probably just one that had been assembled dry instead of coating the rubber gasket with oil which can make it a real pig to slacken. But I think you have the plastic housing with the replaceable paper element filter and there's an external lock tab. That's the type I have on mine although I've never replaced it myself.

I think the paper element filters are a different ball game and require a better type of removal tool as per the attached pics which grip not only the flutes on the plastic filter housing but also the extra tabs at the base. The extra purchase might make all the difference. Or maybe you've already got this type of tool and if so best of British to you.