I did my oil cahnge yesterday, but I think a gorilla must of done the last one because the oil filter was unbelivible tight.

On previous cars i've owned I could destroy the filter with a scewdriver but with this skoda That was not an opion.

I finaly managed to undo the top of the filter, it took two people and a rarther large clamp before it budged.

I think this is slightly more than 25NM.

Has anyone else found that grorillas had benn working on their car before them?

Yes, with windy guns on the wheel nuts

I carry a nice large torque wrench in the car for undoing road bolts :-) but normally I check them once I get back from the garage.

As for the Oil filter, yep, might was a right git to get off too. I think it has something to do with the rubber o-ring seal near to the top. I gripped mine with a layer of sandpaper, then a strip on aluminium and then fianlly my chain wrench around that lot - still it took me several goes!

it's quite common for the spin-on type oil filters to be tight. but when they are put on, it only needs to be hand tight

This one was realy tight I tried using one of those fabric clamp things for taking oil filters off but it just snapped..

one of these is a big help for stuck oil filters

also you can get these things in a range of different sizes to fit.

I've got one of THESE, I didn't expect it to be all that good but it's actually fantastic, never let me down yet!

i love you guys.

last time i did my oil filter it was a screw driver job.put the current one on by hand,its now drum tight.is it bad to just empty the filter on an oil change?it says 30,000km on the side so i intend to make full use of that fact,and change it every other oil change.

At least yours was tight.

Had mine serviced by a local Honda garage.

But when I got home I had to tighten the filter up as it was leaking.

I thought I'd tightened mine up enough by hand - now I have unsightly oil drips on my garage floor :(

I've got one of THESE, I didn't expect it to be all that good but it's actually fantastic, never let me down yet!

Yep, I have the Sykes Pickavant equivalent of this type, and never been beaten yet

I use an olde-fashioned chain wrench. Cleaner than a screwdriver, and never been beaten yet.

I had to get the oil wrench that looks like a mole grips after the chain wouldn't work on a fiesta. That was because the position of the filter, but GSF etc all sell tools for the plastic lid type things.

It's not the gorillas, it the 16 year olds with airtools that you have to be wary of, I've heard from one extremely experienced source...

I did my own oil change and when the two years was up went to remove the oil filter which I had put on, could I get it off! I thought the damn thing was welded to the screw, broke the chain wrench that I was using, and spent about two hours with the help of a friend, and a leather belt threaded through the holes on the broken wrench eventually got it off, hand tightened this one, wouldn't blame the mechanics, but saying that they should know better, as for myself its the worst filter I have ever had to remove in 40 years of motoring, time for a redesign I think

I did my own oil change and when the two years was up went to remove the oil filter which I had put on, could I get it off! I thought the damn thing was welded to the screw, broke the chain wrench that I was using, and spent about two hours with the help of a friend, and a leather belt threaded through the holes on the broken wrench eventually got it off, hand tightened this one, wouldn't blame the mechanics, but saying that they should know better, as for myself its the worst filter I have ever had to remove in 40 years of motoring, time for a redesign I think

Change the oil every 6 months comes off nice and easy then