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Originally Posted by Penguin
FunfDreisig's procedure at the start of this thread tells you, e.g., 1 1/4 inch socket or 32 mm. I splurged and bought a set of large metric sockets at Sears to get the 32 mm.
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I just bought a
Lisle 14700 socket from amazon. <---- This one for BMW Diesel
It is a
32mm six point 3/8" drive socket specially designed for oil filter canisters. It's inexpensive, low-profile, and most importantly it is designed to not round off the corners of the plastic filter housing. Oddly, it is marketed as being just for the GM Ecotec 2.2, but it fits fine on my X5 35d's filter housing.
I've been using its big brother, a
Lisle 14500 (36mm) with fine results for years on my Volvo. I think it may also fit some petrol BMWs.