06 Toyota Avalon Cartridge Oil Filter

[Papa Bear]

If you're going to saddle me with a canister filter; you might as well give me back the 6 volt battery, tube-type AM radio, moon discs, 3 speed stick on the column and fuzzy dice.
Maybe my old blue suede shoes will be "NEW and IMPROVED" someday.
Canister filter.....hogwash !!

P.B.

 

[mgm13]

I believe it will be the same as my Avalon and look for more models to come as its considered enviromentally more friendly.

 

[NorWest5]

'Believe it or not Toyota is back to using cartridge oil filters'

My 2003 BMW has a cartridge oil filter accessable from above. Easiest filter to change I've ever seen.

 

[brianl703]

That's probably because the engine in your BMW (and GM's Ecotec engine) was designed with a cartridge filter in mind, so the filter is in a location that makes sense.

Here, Toyota apparently added a cartridge filter to an existing engine design. A kludge.