>fram filter
ew
Wrong oil filter?
Ayden Cook
Nolan Evans
>China has been getting into motor oil exporting too.
It would be hard to trust chinese oil. Heck, they might even bleach dark oil a lighter color if that was cheap enough to do. The chinese companies even cooked food with used discarded oil and sold that canned food as imports to the usa. It even got caught by the FDA eventually (after like 15 years of sellling) and banned.
Jack Walker
Are you retarded?
Ethan Ortiz
no purolater is retard fram is better
Lucas Miller
Wix/Napa Gold or nothing.
Grayson Roberts
>not buying oem
Juan Thompson
OEM for my car is made by FRAM, so no thanks.
Owen Reed
>Mazda filters
I buy the rx-8 filter for my Subaru outback. $10 which is relatively cheap and it's a Tokyo roki reskin. Really really good filter.
Chase Howard
>no purolater is retard
>fram is better
Purolator did have a lot of internal filter media tears in their filters in recent years. You wouldn't know it unless you saved the filter from the oil change AND opened up the metal can. Some of the dedicated people in various different car forums as well as the BITOG have opened up purolators and frequently found tears. Purolator seems to be using chinese suppliers and the new media was too "brittle".
It's way too frequent percentage wise because it can be considered the filters picked to be examined are from a random pool of filters. Thus the hit rate for problems is actually quite high. Purolator has been keeping quiet and also ignoring filter users with complaints. Fram has been addressing any complaints and even asks people who have certain types of filter problems to send them in (they provide shipping). In some cases where there is a genuine problem discovered with the raw material supplier (media and internals from China) then some users have gotten not just a refund but also a free case of filters.
Fram ultra filters have a wire mesh forming the pleats, so pressure pulses causing a hole is pretty tough. If you use an "ECO" type car, there may be a lot of oil pulses because the engines start and stop a lot and some of the starts are due to the driver already flooring the pedal, so the pulse may be especially large.
In my opinion, I think Fram is trying to make sure product performance problems are fixed. The problem is that chinese suppliers are unreliable and will substitute and change things for unethical profit.
Logan Robinson
OEM has a standard requirement for warranty. If the oil filter made by Fram fails and causes a warranty claim you bet your ass the vehicle manufacturer will sue Fram.