Originally Posted by tolian21

The metal style toyota canister does not have the same length for core pipe, its a bad idea, these parts are not interchangeable. You will have to go aftermarket. Listen to car care nut, he said he had seen zero issues with plastic and warned about replacing it with a metal one that does not have the same specs

Originally Posted by Denzlex

The only time there would be an issue is if it’s drastically overtightened. If you do your own oil changes, it can obviously be avoided. If someone else does your oil changes and you’re worried about them overtightening, wouldn’t you be concerned about the metal housing potentially damaging the threads of the oil pump housing? You can’t damage those threads with a plastic housing.

Originally Posted by ukcats

It is not a problem. You just change the factory core into the metal cap. Easy, takes less than two minutes. Several videos on you YouTube to show you how.

Originally Posted by zul8tr

Like I said in my post #7 the Lexus service dept excessively overtightened the filter I had to use a 3 ft breaker bar with about 50 lbs to get it loose. I bought a real good all steel tool (details available) not the junk cast aluminum to fit snug on all the filter flukes and luckily the plastic filter was not damaged and I reused it and back at 18 ft lbs.

Originally Posted by Denzlex

Um, ok. I read that. Are you under the impression I was responding to you? And did I say something to dispute what you said?

Originally Posted by ukcats

It is not a problem. You just change the factory core into the metal cap. Easy, takes less than two minutes. Several videos on you YouTube to show you how.

Originally Posted by tolian21

if this produces the same specs, great. But if you DIY you have to ask yourself why you are doing this, if you do not over-tighten it, plastic one will work fine and will not fail. They now put plastic valve cover in some toyotas, and it works

Originally Posted by es250fsport

The only issue is metal cap ones aftermarket and the quality of those are questionable.
Genuine plastic ones are OK (although I prefer metal canister style ones). You just need to be extra gentle with those and use torque wrench.