My neighbor decided she was going to change her own oil and could not get the filter off and called her dad and tried the “ancient Chinese secret” of running a screw driver thru it. She came over and asked if I could get it off. I told her that trick would have worked 20 years ago but these thing are so thin like a coke can. When I crawled under there the only thing left was the top plate and the nipple run into block. Not easily accessible on a Suberu