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Mini Cooper oil filter plastic core and spring?

Mar 21, 2009 by Jimbo | Posted in BMW

During an oil change the repair shop discarded the plastic core and spring from the oil filter housing. See the picture in the link.

http://www.promini.com/technical/tech_ti ps/cooper_oil_filter.php

Now I cannot even find

Have you tried the dealer? Not knowing what year or model Cooper you have I had to sort of guess, but I did find this part listed below. It looks like it is all combined together and called the oil filter cover.

M333 | Mar 21, 2009

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