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Originally Posted by JustRalph
Find out what kind of filter the mechanic used. If it’s a cheap no name brand, you’re screwed. Especially if your car has a “Skyactive” engine. The manual on my wife’s CX5 instructed the use of “Skyactive rated filters” Going to be hard to get around that. They will just say you used an un-approved part or a non rated part. I stopped taking hers to the dealer for oil changes, but I bought expensive “Skyactive” filters for the quick lube to use.
They are 79 bucks a piece on Amazon.
If the filter came apart and it’s a name brand you can make a claim against the filter company. I had a friend that did that years ago. They actually ponied up some cash for about 1/2 of his repairs because the filters were defective, and recalled.
Have you spoken with the mech that changed the oil?
Maybe he will do the repairs cheap, all things considered.
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The mechanic who changed the oil used an STP oil filter. I talked to him about the problem I am having, and he swears that he has never encountered this before.
He advised me to take the car away from the dealer and let him “play with it”, but I am in no mood to “play” right now.
