oil filter location

Dec 06, 2006 4 Replies

Hello,



Skoda Octavia vRS 54 plate - 1.8T Where is the oil filter?



I've marked what sure looked like the oil filter. Standing in front of the car looking into the engine bay it was located in a central position lower down on the front of the engine. A black cylinder about the size of a mug/beaker as I'd have expected and angled down towards the front of the car. It had the word filter on and lots of german but not oil filter anywhere I could see.



Reason I ask is it's gone in for dealer servicing and I want to be sure i'm paying for a new oil filter and not the old one cleaned up to look new. I couldn't get access to see clearly this morning before it went in if I was mistaken.


That'll be it. It's the only cylindrical object that should protrude from the block (that I can think of).

a lot oil filters these days are paper ones and housed in their own casing, so you only remove & refit the internals, so you would never know if its been changed or not.

That sounds like the same engine as my 1.8T Passat and where you say it's at sound like the right spot. Mine is a regular oil filter where the whole item is replaced. AL

Yeah car is back with new filters and fluids, it's been done and the can that was there when I got it back tonight was new, well...not the one they took off at least. Probably being a bit OTT with the paranoia but for a £200 service I want every pennies worth.

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