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Originally Posted By: ARCOgraphite
Easy, except for the shroud - but manageable. And they fixed the drain plug ( from earlier FB by going back to a larger bolt head.

The car gets "dry starts" every startup though. That high filter empties.

Now, about that M1 filter ... .


This is patently untrue. I have a Tacoma with a similar set up, and the filter can remains full, no matter how long between runs.
 
Originally Posted By: The Critic
The easiest one that I have done was on a 2002 Acura RSX.
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I'm sorry, is this the same as laid out on a 2005 RSX Type-S? Heck no! Hard to get to the filter yo! Exhaust burning my arm right near everything.
 
The filter on top seems nice...

Because it would be so wonderful to not have oil from the filter drain into the heat shields over the header pipes and stink for a week after every oil change...like on my 2011 Subaru.
 
Love the topside filter on my E46.

Really? Car gets DRY STARTS every time with a topside filter??
I thought that's why they have ADB valves and such.
Hard to believe Subaru and BMW would design some of their most successful models to dry start every time....
 
Yeah, Subarus with top mount filters are great. One of my friends recently got a new Outback and that was the first thing I noticed under the hood.

Other good ones...
Ecotec I4 GMs
Old BMWs
Old Mercedes
4.0L V6 Tacoma
Pentastar V6
 
Originally Posted By: 01rangerxl
Yeah, Subarus with top mount filters are great. One of my friends recently got a new Outback and that was the first thing I noticed under the hood.

Other good ones...
Ecotec I4 GMs
Old BMWs
Old Mercedes
4.0L V6 Tacoma
Pentastar V6


I have been a shade tree mechanic for 50 years and I did not even look under the hood before I bought the Forester. I was going to buy the vehicle regardless. It was cold and I wanted to get the papers signed and on my way.
 
Originally Posted By: artificialist
The GM Tech-4 engine had a neat setup. You unscrew the drain plug, and the filter fall out with it.


Mine never fell out. i always had to use a pair of flat nose pliers .
It really never had dry starts either as the filter was soaked in oil when you filled the pan back up!
 
On my brother's 3.0L 98 Sable, the oil filter was front and center and easy to grab.

It was the same place on my 3.0L 99 Taurus, only Ford saw fit to shorten the A/C line and move the big accumulator right over top of the filter. I think this saved them a total of 4" (2 on each side) of A/C line.

Every time I crawled underneath to change the filter on that car, I was SO HAPPY that Ford saved 5 Cents per car by shortening that A/C line.
 
Don't understand this thread. I've never had a car where changing the oil and filter was difficult.

Is this a NEW CAR thing?

(I've only had old cars)
 
Originally Posted By: Trav
Chevy Vega. LOL You could get the drain plug and the oil filter from up top, that was the only good thing on that car.
My senior year in trade school i did work study at the Chevy dealer and got to change the oil on all the nice cars, vega's and the new Chevettes. LOL


My nick name for a Chevette is "piece of Chevette"
 
2.4 EcoTec in the Solstice: Stick the extractor tube down the dipstick, vacuum out five quarts, remove the cartridge filter on the side of the engine.

I can do it wearing a suit. Just wish I had time to drive it.
 
BY FAR, the best car I've seen for oil changes is my 2003 Hyundai Santa Fe with the 2.7L. I can reach the drain plug without having to get under the car at all. Even better, the oil filter is so close to the front I can get down on one knee and remove it. Piece of cake.

It beats my 2002 Toyota Tacoma 3.4L where I have to go through the driver's side wheel well, get filthy and get oil all over the metal "splash guard" or whatever you call it under the engine. Messy job no matter how you do it!
 
All of these vehicles are easy to change the filter, but they're still a bit of a "pain" for oil changes because they're all low to the ground cars that require a jack/jackstands or ramps to get to the drain plug. My wife's Subaru has the filter mounted on top, and yes it's very easy to replace, but I still have to drive up on ramps to get to the drain plug. My Ranger and my Bronco on the other hand, have a filter in a little less than ideal location, but I can crawl underneath with all four tires on the ground and get to everything easily. That trumps an easy filter IMO. And the Bronco's filter is also accessible from up top. The only reason it's not really ideal is it dribbles oil all over the front differential when you remove it.
 
Originally Posted By: Win
2.4 EcoTec in the Solstice: Stick the extractor tube down the dipstick, vacuum out five quarts, remove the cartridge filter on the side of the engine.

I can do it wearing a suit. Just wish I had time to drive it.

Really? The 2.4 can be changed using an extractor???
 
My '86 V-8 Mercedes 420SEL, and its successor the '97 W202 C230, were both a breeze. The oil could be extracted via the dipstick, and both cars had the cartridge oil filter right on top. You never had to crawl underneath for an oil change. I did multiple changes on both cars with no fuss.
 
Originally Posted By: Benzadmiral
The oil could be extracted via the dipstick, and both cars had the cartridge oil filter right on top. You never had to crawl underneath for an oil change.

Yup... love those setups, just like on my 530i and on wife's Q5. Wife's old C300 was the same way, too.
 
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