Oil Filter Leaks

[pedxxx]

Ever year my car gets a service and every year (or most years) the oil leaks from the oil filter seal. This is always the case with a Bosch filter but has now happened with another brand.

This is very frustrating. Does anybody else have this issue?

 

[Rusty2k]

What engine do you have? There are several oil filter setups used on the Mk2 Leon.

 

[R3k1355]

Are you using a cartridge filter or a paper element job?

With the paper element ones you'll also get a new O-ring which wants replacing after it's been primed with some used oil.

 

[pedxxx]

From memory it's a 1.2 TSI.

 

[RUM4MO]

If it is an EA111 1.2TSI then there is a good possibility that the previous, or a previous filter seal is also in there, a well documented problem/possibility.

With the added "bonus" of reduced oil pressure as the "should be closed" oil return, which should only get opened when the filter is unscrewed slightly, is open at all times.

So, if you have had any low pressure warning then that could be why that was happening, either way, it might be a smart idea to buy a new oil filter, remove the old one, and investigate if there is an extra and much older seal still stuck to that oil filter head part of your car.

 

[rdraheim]

This is correct ... the EA111 1.2 TSI has issues with O-rings remaining from the old filters. Well documented, even when I bought my Golf in 2014.

Here's a thread with some pictures.

1.2 TSI intermittent oil pressure warning

Hello everybody, today I left my house to head to see a car 2012 Fabia Monte Carlo 1.2 TSI as I need a change of car as I'm starting a family and would like to change to a more economical (slower) car, the car was 270 miles away from my home and my mother generously offered to drive me there with...

www.briskoda.net

another

Oil warning light intermitent

I have a petrol Fabia 2013 and the oil warning light keeps coming on intermittently. I've had the oil pressure checked and it's fine so got the oil pressure sensor replaced but it keeps happening. The light and warning sound only come on after about 20 mins driving and if I am going below 50 mph....

www.briskoda.net

I would start there if it was my EA111 1.2 TSI.