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Originally Posted By: cjcride Could the threads on the filter be faulty, cross threaded or stripped? The filter remained on the vehicle and was just covered with the oil pumped out around where it screws onto the vehicle, and so the dealership that rebuilt the engine examined it and said that...

Originally Posted By: ZeeOSix ...But IMO, the dealership has way too many "outs" in this case. I mean they could simply say: "How do we know someone didn't vandalize this guys car by loosening the oil filter? We never see any oil filters loosed up by themselves after 3000 miles." The plaintiff...

Originally Posted By: dnewton3 Further, the lube installer could even defer some or all of the problem onto the owner, for having a lube warning system that was not fully operational. Think of the OPs statements here; he specifically mentioned that the oil pressure system (oil pressure idiot...

Originally Posted By: Danno We have something called small claims court in Canada and for a very reasonable fee, you can bring your case to the judge. I feel you have an avenue if you have that type of a system. In any case it would be worth your while to get a legal opinion on this one. Did...

Originally Posted By: threeputtpar What I'm getting at is if you can point to the filter that fell off and say that the last place to change the oil didn't use that specific kind of filter at the time of the change, then you can deduct that they didn't change it and possibly did loosen it to...

Thanks for all of the responses thus far. No known enemies - the vehicle was parked in a lot with about 400 other cars at a college campus. Even if somebody intended to do harm, it would be hard to find the vehicle, and with the cut-out on the skid-plate for the filter, you can barely get your...

Wondering if anybody has any data from a reputable source that might help answer this question for me... Fighting with a dealer that changed the oil on a Jeep Patriot, and then about 3000 miles later the oil filter came loose, the oil was pumped out and the engine seized. (This was a different...