Oil filter change poll

[spottedtango]

I was changing the oil in my car today when I was googling if I should bother changing the filter as I changed it during the last oil change.

Alot of people recommend changing it with the oil every time as filters are pretty cheap. I prefer to do it every other time due to the fact thats what I've been used to plus alot of service manuals still state that you dont need to do it everytime.

What is the general consensus of BCF when it comes to changing the oil/oil filters on their bikes?

[Fidge]

depends when I last changed it. Over long term I would replace both.

[Tierbirdy]

Always, for the sake of a £6 filter why not?

[almostthere]

the more clogged a filter gets the better it filters, there's no point changing it every oil change
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[Kickstart]

Hi

Filter is cheap compared to the oil going in the engine, and as a filter gets clogged the engine will just bypass the filter.

All the best

Katy
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[Rogerborg]

Change the filter every 2nd oil change.

But change the oil twice as often as scheduled.

So aye but no.
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[RhynoCZ]

I'm gonna start another poll: Do you think people will ever stop asking this question?

I'm not here that long and this might be the 6th or 7th poll someone started, with the exact same question, since I've joined. And many newcomers just start a thread about it in a wrong section.
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[Rogerborg]

<nods>
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[recman]

[Rogerborg]

[RhynoCZ]

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

If I don't know when the filter was last changed, then I'll change it. Otherwise every other for me. I tend to drop my oil everyone 3k or so on the R1 anyway. New 10p cush washer every time because I'm so flush.
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[Raffles]

[spottedtango]

[doggone]

The only reason not to change it is all the threads about problems getting them off/putting them in/stopping them leaking.
But there are probably even more about the perils of removing the drain plug...decisions decisions...

[mentalboy]

[spottedtango]

[RhynoCZ]

[Raffles]

[RhynoCZ]

[Val]

I have answered every time oil and filter which I always do.

Then I read your post.

Then I read my bike manual.

Apparently Yamaha recommends to change the filter every other time only.

Good to know.

From now on I am not changing every time the filter with the oil.

Because I can and getting out the old filter and getting in the new filter between the hot exaust pipes is major PITA for me.

I always ride the tits out of it before oil change as recomended by the common wisdom

Make of that what you want...
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[rubyhorse2]

the question is...why wouldnt you? its not exactly breaking the bank and, in most cases, a simple little job.

[Evil Hans]

My 125 doesn't have a removable filter ... just a strainer gauze that needs a bit of a rinse now and then. I demand a poll category for that!

[Other bikes: Every time. Unless I am utterly skint - why else wouldn't you?]