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[Kaison]

Model: Rover Mini Sprite
Year: 1992
Description of problem (please be as in depth as possible): I've just drained the oil from my car and bloody hell it was black!! And wow that magnet was caked in metal!!

ANYWAY - I've got the type of oil filter that's external and is disposible. . . Tried holding it tight and twisting + with a rag around it + with a screw driver through it.
Apart from using a specialist tool (Which I don't have), Are there any other home methods?

(I can only get the screw driver just over half way in)

Thanks! Kai

[amarcd]

try banging the screwdriver all the way thro, make sure its need the end of the filter. Then just wind it off, it shouldn't be too tight o make sure you are turning it the correct way, anticlockwise.

[danrock101]

I brought a engine and the idiot had done it up so tight, the oil filter housing snapped in two when I tried to take the oil filter off, I've heard of sand paper being used, but generally I use ram a screw driver through it. You can get a screw driver and put it at the top on the ring and bang it with a hammer in a way that it slightly moves the filter around and just keep doing that to loosen it slightly.

[james962]

If you use a strap, try tightening it slightly first, then undo

[ANON]

use one of the cup type sockets that fits over the base of the filter