Sutitan

Ive had my car now for 96k miles, and im about to change the oil soon. While draining the oil is no big deal, I dread removing the oil filter since it always gets everywhere. Ive usually jut put up with it, cleaned a little mess, and thats all.

So I was wondering what tricks you guys use. I cant be the only one that has these problems. Let me know.

07tl-s6spd

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put a freezer bag around it while unscrewing...works for me

boomersooner02000

I do the same thing. Works great!

Sutitan

Do you guys usually remove the wheel?

Shoot2Thrill

Turn the wheel, use the bottom 3/4 of an empty 2 liter soda bottle around the filter as it is removed.

SouthernBoy

I use a heavy duty ZipLock freezer bag. I loosen the filter using a wrench to the point where I can continue to remove it by hand. Then I work the ZipLock bag up over the filter and pickup arm and continue to remove the filter. The residual oil goes into the bag to be dumped in some creek in the woods along with the crankcase oil when I'm done. No muss, no fuss.


(I don't really dump any oil in a creek.)

piggydog

TL easiest oil change ever. Turn the wheel, remove filter, no need to even jack the car up.

TheChamp531

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Lay under the filter, and open your mouth.

Oh does it taste gooooood.

LaCostaRacer

Drain the filter first by punching a hole in the bottom using a Screw driver- catch the drippings in your pan and you're good. I also saw a flexible plastic thing in the back of a car magazine that forms a flexible funnel too. I personally use the screw driver method.

piggydog

I just wipe whatever fell on the pipe.

SpiderX1016

I just use Blue Shop Towels. I put 1 or 2 around the parts it might drip on and when the new filter is installed, I use one of the towels to wipe everything down.

If I'm lazy I just wrap the filter with one of those towels and unscrew by hand. Works the same.

Flick

I wrap a couple of pieces of aluminum foil around the pipe under the filter, take the filter offer and just pull the foil off when I'm done and no mess to clean up.

Sutitan

Ziplock bag worked! It was just turning the filter once the inside of the bag was covered in oil. The whole job was about 95% clean

94eg!

This car is 1000x cleaner than doing anything with a K-series motor in it (RSX, Element, Civic, etc). The filter is on the back of the block right above the driveshaft boot and subframe. You can't even imagine the lengths you must go through to keep oil off of everything. Took me many years to perfect a technique.

Then we sold the Element...

chuanger

I use a ziplock freezer bag as well. No mess at all.

mikedog4

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I just use shop towels