Id actually consider changing my own oil if the IS had that lol ...

 

My 02 BMW 330i had this type of filter. Really does make changing the oil filter an easy and clean job. No need to crawl under the car

 

My father's 52 Plymouth with a flathead 6 has a cartridge oil filter conveniently located on top of the engine. 58 year old technology FTW. It also used oil as an air filter. The heavier dirt particle were trapped in a pool of oil similar to a sink trap.

 

Well, you've got half of it: Cartridge.

Just mounted under a panel on the bottom of the engine

After learning the trick to 'not' making a mess on my first IS350 oil change, its quick and (mostly) painless now.
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My wife's Eos has a top-mounted oil filter (spin on can though). Makes filter changes nice.

 

It's a Chevy Cruze, owners of those cars don't change the oil

 

nice, but changing the filter alone is not changing the oil!

i highly recommend the fumitomo flip valve for making oil drain a snap and clean!

 

I wouldn't mind that type of filter setup! Still, even with a conventional filter setup, I am happy to get in there and change my own oil.

Turby

 

mazda 3 filter is just like that. OLD

 

You're talking about one of those little screw-in plugs with a built-in valve that goes into the drain plug hole, right? I've seen those ads, but never tried one myself. Have you found the valve to be durable and leakproof?......that's my main concern. Seems to me that if it were such a simple, foolproof set-up, and would last over time, automakers would dump the traditional metric socket-plugs and make them standard. Technicians and service shops would probably like them because it would shorten oil-change time, eliminate the possibility of stripped threads on the drain-plug hole (that problem is fairly common), and allow them to service more cars every day.

 

My '52 Dodge had the same set-up. The replaceable oil filter element was easy to change, but boy, it was a mess. You waited until the oil had a chance to drain back to the pan, then opened the top and pulled out the element. It helped to have a handful of newspapers or a pan to catch the drips.

The local cop shop's motor pool used those valves for years. It seems changing oil in a police cruiser is done about every 5-7 days, due to 24/7 use and high mileage, with a lot of idling. The grease monkeys down at the motor pool kept cross-threading the drain plugs so often, new pans were becoming a budget line item. That drain valve solved the problem - it's almost impossible to mess up.

 

yes, and yes. as for why car makers don't include them, maybe they like the profits from selling replacement oil pans.

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Since Blackstone says I can go 14k miles on an oil change, the valve is in the very marginal category, especially since I have a high volume rough vacuum pump I can use to drain from the dipstick tube.

All 2IS have this style filter, and it's dead simple to change it without a big mess. I wish the wife's Scion had a cartridge filter. I've learned to hate the spin-on style filters after the first time I put it on with a torque wrench and had to stab the thing with a screwdriver to get it off.

 

Welcome to 1990, Chevrolet, glad you could make it. Autoblog, is this the first car you've SEEN in 2 decades?

This is indeed incredibly convenient (I love it on my decade-old BMW), but it's about as far from revolutionary as you can get.

 

Yeah I also like the new Lexus filter style, cheaper and easier to DIY but it still is under the car and requires me jacking it up/using ramps.

 

Toyota seems to be relatively unique in mounting a cartridge-style filter to the bottom of the engine, which negates most of the advantages from an ease of changing perspective. BMW, Mercedes, Hyundai, and others all put it up top. Hell, in my E46 3-series, if you lift the hood and then just let your hand drop, there's about a 40% chance it'll land directly on the oil filter housing. It's literally the easiest thing in the entire engine compartment to get to.

Combine that with an oil extractor, and you could do the entire oil change without even looking at a jack, or getting a single drop of oil on yourself or the floor.