Ok so i go to change my oil this weekend and i go to advanced auto part's that's' like 3 block's away from my house and i buy the oil and then i buy the oil filter BUT the oil filter they have on file is HUGE for the car!! the one that it has on now is like small as hell and the one they gave me is super big
so then i went to Napa and they give me the same thing, I go to a Audi dealer and they give me a huge one also so then i got a bit mad and I went to my house, yanked out the oil filter and the thing say's Napa on it im like WTF! I go back to Napa and the guy Tell's me that the oil filter that i have for my 2001 A4 1.8T quattro is a oil filter for a 2006 A4 so what could this mean?? Any help would be appreciated because i don't want to do the wrong thing in this car

Thank's guy's

 

The oil filter for 1.8T was revised years ago to the huge one to increase capacity to help reduce sludge. It's no big deal really if your car had a smaller one on it. Chances are the huge one has been used on your car in the past. These engines have been known to have sludge issues due to the high heat (turbo), restrictive oil pickup tube/screen, and the use of non full-synthetic oil.. Now with the use of the man sized filter and most people using full synthetic oil the sludge problems are pretty scarce.

 

where was the oil last changed? They did that **** to me at Jiffy Lube once, the smaller filter is way cheaper, so they charge you for the big *** one the car is supposed to have, then put that little one on instead. The big one is the right filter

 

so the big one will fit on the mine?

 

And thanks for the help guy's i was about to go throw my old oil filter on that dealer's head for doing bad thing's to my baby.

 

No...

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YES.

 

No worries man. Yes, the big one will fit. I would use that one from now on if i were you, can't go wrong with a bigger filter IMO.

 

yea next oil change i will definitely use the big one.

 

That's what she said.

 

Lol nice