General Which oil filter?

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General Which oil filter?

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The time has come to give the old girl a few treats - pre-winter service.
As usual, I enter my reg into Euro Car parts' home page & tap on oil filter, air filter, etc. had to wait a day or so for everything to come into my local shop then went to collect.
I did think at the time that the oil filter seemed a tad small but as I'd not handled it for a year, I thought time was simply playing tricks.
Managed to get the old one off & sure enough, it's almost double the height of the new one - which wouldn't even go anywhere close.
Looking at their website, everything they recommend for my dobbie comes in at a mere 53mm high but trying to find out which oil filter mine is supposed to have is becoming a nightmare. I've looked at a few sites where you enter your reg & the filters that come up range from 53mm high all the way up to 100.5mm!

Never before have I come across this problem when buying service bits for the dobbie.

PS, anyone know what size it is supposed to be?
 
Is that from your VIN..?

Maybe have a look on here by VIN

https://www.fiatdalys.lt/en/catalog/step2/T/DOB

I'm even more confused than ever now. Lists 9 filters for my car ranging in size from 53mm high all the way up to 79mm.
I took the tiny one back to Euro & the chap checked with their supplier who recommended a filter which was about an inch longer.

Once upon a time, I entered my reg & I had a choice of two or three filters with little to choose between them as they were all, seemingly, identical.
Ho, hum, such is life.
 
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