Oil filter change on 300C?

Getting ready for the first oil change on a new 300C and have done all of my
own routine maintenance on my vehicles since 1961. When I crawled beneath
the car I noticed that there is some sort of plastic "splash shield" that
covers the entire undersurface of the engine and that the oil filter must be
somewhere above that splash shield. Is it possible to remove the back two
retaining screws and allow the splash shield to drop down enough to get
access to the oil filter (while laying on my back beneath the car) without
placing the car on a service station lift? [Never thought there was a need
to crawl beneath the car before it was purchased]

MikeSp

 

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
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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')

 

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.

 

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

Damn plastic toys!

Ted

 

Daniel J. Stern wrote:

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.