Twenty years of turning bolts, and I just learned I was doing oil filters wrong

I've been changing oil on my own cars since I was 16, plus all the customer cars at the shop where I used to work. It wasn't until last month that a younger mechanic pointed out I was tightening the filter by hand until it stopped, then giving it another quarter turn. Turns out that extra turn was overtightening it, causing a slow leak on a 2012 Honda Civic I did last week. He showed me the spec in the manual says just hand tight until the gasket contacts, then no extra turn. I had to ask around and three other old-timers admitted they did the same thing for years. Has anyone else had a simple habit they never questioned until someone corrected them?

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