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[jefrs]

Deanobats has a 2015 B5, 2011-on, the type with three screws on the outer cover to the main oil filter. And more ambitious oil pumps. There is a spring but it's not the type that explodes in your face when you withdraw it. The entire assembly is different to pre-2010. There are number of O-rings, I took phone photos to aid reassembly but have since deleted them. The supplied filter is correct but only a few of the O-rings in H's kit were of suitable size. I had to re-use many of the old one, fortunately 2015 is not all that old. My dealership which did the first service apparently used the correct size O-rings, which means there is a genuine RE oil filter kit out there somewhere.

[jefrs]

ric - I agree - any oil filter must be fitted correctly. I remember using a pattern part cannister filter on a car and nearly destroying the motor, because unbeknownst to me then, the oem filter had a pressure relief valve in the middle of it. This is not an area to get cheap on, and yet that pattern filter was a know-good make, prolly a UniPart, just not the manufacturer's own part. Oops.

[Revband]

I would be very interested to know the make and model of the car.

[ric]

Jefrs, a similar thing was discovered in the USA with the modern Triumph Bonnevilles and using aftermarket oil filters.
Many aftermarket filters had their filtering capabilities negated from Day1 because of an incompatible bypass valve lift pressure. From memory about 60% of available aftermarket filters shown as being suitable for the EFI twin engine didn't filter the oil at all.

[jefrs]

Revband, it was a long time ago and I really have had a lot of cars. Senior moment here. I do remember I went to the local auto parts distributor for the pattern part, and then shortly after got the the oem replacement because the motor was unwell. Could have been the Volvo 245. There's very little left to spanner on a modern car, I let the garage do it.

[Rattlebattle]

I found the same thing as Jefrs regarding wrong o rings supplied in the oil filter kit. Re oil filters generally I always use genuine items, or ones sourced from the supplier to the manufacturer, because not all cheaper ones have either the right filter density or pressure relief value. It reminds me of a while ago when I had a Honda Deauville NTV700 ( great bike for what it was). If you fitted the wrong type of filter that used to be ok on the older 650 model, when you raised the main stand it would clout the filter and puncture it because it was too long....Hardly worth saving a few quiz on a cheap filter IMHO.