Edit: I snapped this after I found it. That’s how I knew it was on so tight. It still took me a good few minutes to find it because I kept looking under the car. I wasn’t expecting the filter to be on top.

  • seathru@lemmy.sdf.org
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    18 hours ago

    That’s not really so much of an issue. Virtually all spin on oil filters are designed in such a way that you can tighten them until the metal filter body contacts the sealing surface and the o-ring will still be happy and protected from over-squishing in it’s little recess.

    All bets are off if you’re buying no-name filters tho.