Quattro fuel filter replacement

Let me start by saying what a pita this is to change. Why Audi placed it in the way they did escapes me. I read a few DIY before I got started and one was very helpful. The filter is held by a plastic ring that is pinched together with a triple square which I don't have. Even if I did, you can't get to it. Simplier way, take off the bottom banjo fitting, cap the filter with the cap that comes on the new filter so it doesn't drip on you. Grab the filter with giant h2o pump pliers and pull it down out of the holder. You have to pry the plastic ring that keeps it from sliding down out of the way, once that's out of the way it comes right out. If I did it again, I don't think I would even lower the tank at all. Funny thing, I think the filter was original, 175k on the car.