Hello,

New to the forum. My wife owns an 05 Mini Cabrio (R52 I beleive). Now that we are over the 50K mark I am doing the regular maintenence items...oil, lube, brakes, etc.

When I went to change the oil, using a recommended 36mm socket, the hex part of of the oil canister/cap/housing broke. The dealership must have had a gorilla reef it to 100+ lbs rather then the recommended 18lbs. Now I will have to use a starp/chain wrench to get it off.

Does anyone have one for sale or could recommend where I can buy one at a reasonable rate?

From what I have read there may be a conversion kit so that standard filters can be used, is this true and if so is it a reasonable upgrade and where can you get the kit? Or is it not recommended?

Thanks in advance.