A tale of caution!

I tought I had a oil filter housing gasket leak on my E46 1.9 so I got a gasket and o rings and was goin to give it to my mechanic who has done work for me and family for years, but he was too busy so I said feck it ill do it myself looked at a few diy guides online and off I went!

Car was serviced by said mechanic 3k ago so I didnt drain the oil just striped it down till I got to the housing, with everything out of the way I could see the oil was coming from the oil filter cup where it screws together so opened the filter and what meet me was a shock! The filter was deformed and compleatly blocked no feckin way only 3k on it, its so blocked it caused the o rings to go completely flat and let oil leak out of the filter cup!




Hard to get a good pic but its worse than it looks. So the last time I send any work to that lad! Very pissed off over it could have screwed the engine for the cost of a filter.

Diy from now on atleast ill know its done!

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