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Originally Posted by Vooryjoni
Thanks, I looked into the purolator but the Bosch actually holds more capacity and is even cheaper. I decided against the OEM because I need a filter than can last like your OCI because I will be switching to full synthetic since I changed most engine seals one year ago.
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I find it interesting you're discarding the thought of using OEM and are buying the Bosch because of their claims about their filters. Whose to say the Bosch folks aren't full of shit? What's backing up their claims about what their filter can do?
A guy did a tear down comparison of a bunch of different brand oil filters a while back. Here's what he said about the OEM filters:
Here is the Toyota OEM. The biggest filter in the pack. When set side to side with other filters its about an 1 inch to 1 1/2 taller than the other filters. This by far has the most paper filter on it. The paper is very different from the others. It soft yet dense with volume. It also has a plastic seal seal on it before us. Very fancy!
This was his conclusion:
So after opening up all these filters and seeing with my own eyes what did I conclude? Dont buy fram or pennzoil. K&N and Mobil1 is NOT worth the $10. STP is the same thing as the high performance advertise oil fitlers, but at 5 bucks which came out to the biggest oil shocker for me. AcDelco is average maybe less than average. Bosch(Purolator) is a solid design and great for its price. Toyota OEM is a great filter. I bought a case of 10 for 5 bucks each at Twos R Us. You cannot go wrong with oem. TRD for 14 bucks and fancy paper material is unknown to me. Unless I have a crazy rev happy engine I would not spend 14 bucks on an oil filter. Maybe Im just cheap.
If you guys have anymore questions on what else to look for on these filters before I throw them all away feel free to ask away. Hate to throw away 70 bucks in unused oil filters.
Here's a link to the oil filter comparison experiment:
Oil Filter Exposed | MR2 SpyderChat
The pictures aren't clear because of the photobucket website BS.
A 7500 mile oil change interval doesn't require a special filter. If an OCI of 7500 miles was pushing the limits of oil filters, there'd be people blowing up engines left and right. There's so many people who abuse the crap out of their vehicles and either don't ever change the oil or maybe do it every 10-20k.
A friend of mine a very long time ago who was a paid mechanic advised me to always buy OEM oil filters and I followed his advice and have always bought OEM filters for my vehicles. Anyway, I've blabbed enough. Good luck with your Bosch filters.