Similar with my wife’s E46, except it has a hex bolt-shaped top on it so you can remove and replace it with a socket. Very good idea.

You don’t need no stinking rope if you had the oil filter where it belongs! Near the bottom of the engine easily reachable by hand but with a filter too narrow for those plastic wrench thingies but too big for anything aside from massive pliers.

i have to remove the entire intake to get to the oil filter on my volvo c30.

My E21 may not have the filter on top but it’s still pretty easy to get to.

I know I have to change the plugs in my outback as part of routine maintenance. I have the requisite plugs and everything, I’m just dreading the process

I used an oil filter relocation block to… (wait for it) relocate the oil filter on my ‘87 325is to the spot behind the strut tower, in front of the windshield (under an Accusump, which protects the engine from oil starvation in left-hand turns).

S54 has the oil filter on top like that, the only price we pay for 8k rpm is solid lifters that have to be re-shimmed occasionally. But even that was just a few hours the first time I did it.

Yeah the french engines are shit and everyone (yes, everyone) bitched about it forever and ever. Combined with the fact that MINI is now essentially BMW’s test bed for platforms and powertrains, they finally engineered their own engines.

Jealous!

I suspect the E90's underpanels have to do with it. It would be a bitch to get the wrench if it fell down the engine bay.

But BMW decided you need a special wrench to open that cap instead of the trusty and not special 13mm socket or wrench in the trunk tool set.

Wait wait wait... trying the wrench to the engine? That’s... brilliant!

Can I ask why you have a wrench tied up in your engine compartment? Is it there by choice? Was it a bad bad wrench?

That sucked. You need tiny hands and the best luck in the world to even find the top mounting bolt for the water pump.

Yup, that’s the new bmw style. been around since at least the e36's.
The e46 added a 36mm “Nut”, so you could open it easier. Looks like they went backwards on the newer cars. Those things are not easy to un-screw.

Working on my 135 could be a bitch in some ways, but my god oil changes were amazing.

I have an e36 so it’s for sure there for me, but idk if anything older has that goood placement

I think that started with the E36? I’m always jealous of how much easier that must be.

There are people at NASCAR Motorsports events who aren’t boozed up?

Slow down, two lipsticks munching box in a NASCAR grandstand would be a hit. They’re just to ignorant to comprehend the hypocrisy.