F**king Oil Filter

[edzt]

Thought I'd change my oil today, dropped the oil no probs. Bloody oil filter...dealer must have used a scaffolding pole to do it up.

Silly me, I thought my filter socket would fit 'cos it the right size, but no, BMW use a kind of knobbly round filter. After a lot of grief finally got it off

Come to fit the new one (genuine BMW, never again!) instead of spinning on it was hard work all the way on and no, it wasn't cross-threaded
Finally went tight or so I thought, filled it with oil started it up, all's well.

Walked to the garage door, turned round and thought the bloody Exxon Valdez was in, pissing out round the oil filter
Took the filter off, lobbed it across the garage cleaned up and went inside and ordered a K&N with that nice little nut on the bottom

I know what your thinking I should have bought the correct filter tool, but I've got loads of the bloody things....never the right one

 

[Spike]

Funny you mention this, I changed the oil at the weekend and it took me 2 hours of sweat and tears trying to get the fookin thing off.

Mine was that tight the proper tool just span, so i bought one of those nylon belts with the socket bit on it, it was that tight it snapped the nylon belt, thats right snapped it.

So i took a screwdriver to it, nope still there but with lots of rips and tears in it. so out came the snips and I cut away all the filter and used a hammer and chisel on the thicker top part, after a few swear words and alot of hammering it finally came loose.

New one went straight back on not a problem, I think they are put on with the tool but who ever does it does not smear oil on the rubber seal and it sticks

spike

 

[rce]

Just done wifes GSR600 and same problem, swanky rubber filter remover just dinted the filter, ended up using my trusty pipe grips and they worked a treat.

 

[Spike]

You can get nothing round the filter on the 1200 though, well nothing except the proper tool and a rubber/nylon remover

spike

 

[Pukmeister]

I've never had a problem removing a filter on a 1200 with the correct filter tool, but they have always been hot due to warming/thinning the oil by running the engine beforehand.

I don't know if the heat makes any difference, did you try to remove yours when hot or cold ??

 

[edzt]

I've never had a problem removing a filter on a 1200 with the correct filter tool, but they have always been hot due to warming/thinning the oil by running the engine beforehand.

I don't know if the heat makes any difference, did you try to remove yours when hot or cold ??

Good point, probably gone cold by the time I'd got the bloody thing off

 

[(RIP) Bobble]

Never had a problem with genuine filters, only aftermarket many years ago (lesson learnt) more than likely overtightened and no oil smeared on rubber / filter before tightening.