Oil filter change on 300C?

I haven't tried this scenario on mine, I just remove the entire cover and it takes only a few moments.

it would be easier to take all four bolts out and remove the cover completely,and less of a mess.

And they were counting on you making that assumption. 8^)

How many buyers even bother to find out if the cams of a vehicle they are considering buying have timing belts and if the engine is interference or not?

Bill Putney (To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my adddress with the letter 'x')

Bill--they still use cams?? LOL

Mike

Is there somebody who doesn't? None of the solenoid-activated nor hydraulic-activated (and I don't mean hydraulic lifters) valve schemes I've read about are anywhere near production-ready.

Heh heh! Exactly! Bill Putney (To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my adddress with the letter 'x')

MikeSp wrote:

My mother stuffed her Y2K Subaru into the back of a *parked* dump truck about a month ago. Says she "has no idea" how it happened (translation: not paying attention). She's fine, in large part because she had the airbags deactivated when she bought the car (5-foot-nothing, sits about 9 inches from the steering wheel).

$6500 worth of body damage to the car...

...which refused to start upon completion of bodywork. Seems she was probably going maybe just a leetle bit faster than the "no more than 5 mph" she claims, because the forward camshaft sprocket is *broken* in two and the timing belt shredded.

I *knew* there was a reason I told her to get a 2000 or newer, not a 1999 or older. For Y2K, the Subaru engine was changed from interference to non.

DS

Time to take the keys away Dan. My mother did the same thing, drove through a chain link fence and into a tree while she was parking the car. She broke some ribs, could have been a lot worse if the tree hadn't been there to stop her.

Unfortunately, she's only 63! She has never been an especially attentive driver, but this is the first crash she's been in since...ummmm...1983. Claims to be paying more attention behind the wheel since the dump truck incident. We'll see.

Sounds like that opening scene in "Driving Miss Daisy", where Dan Aykroyd(?) says "Momma, cars do not 'behave'. They are behaved *upon*."

My mother was 85 when she did it.

S*it, on these newer cars you can hit them with a shopping cart and do that much damage.

Damn plastic toys!

Ted

My late grandmother behaved upon cars quite proficiently until a debilitating stroke at age 90. Until then, she never had an accident despite fairly poor vision and hearing.

My wife's mother, on the other hand, is a rolling disaster despite better vision than *me*. Thankfully all one-car incidents so far, but one more and the car is going up for sale. Its all the degree of attentiveness, and my MIL has the attention span of a gnat, I'm afraid.