Best oil filter for Synthetic oil
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brian2sun
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Well, don't get the Amsoil filter. A couple of members on here recently blew their engines up due to faulty EA057 filters. I have to say Amsoil stepped up and bought them new engines, but what a pain it still must have been to get them to write the check and they had to come up with the $$ to have the dealer fix it and wait for reinbursement from Amsoil.
I have used Mobil 1 extended life filters for years and they're great.
I have used Mobil 1 extended life filters for years and they're great.
Blitzkrieg
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Mobil1, Purolator Pure1, and Amsoil filters all rank pretty high in the independent studies (those not funded by the manufacturers).
I run Purolator Pure1 filters in all of my vehicles exclusively.
OEM filters generally fair pretty poorly in the tests and standard Fram filters are junk.
Hope that helps.
I run Purolator Pure1 filters in all of my vehicles exclusively.
OEM filters generally fair pretty poorly in the tests and standard Fram filters are junk.
Hope that helps.
notrayray
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Please, point me toward the test that shows this. This is in contrary to what I have ever heard, seen or read on the interwebs.
Gerdo
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Read this http://www.300cforums.com/forums/gen...dissected.html The Purolator Pure one and the Bosch look like they have the most filter area and good parts.
XJeepguy
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eric_simo99
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Mobil1
Blitzkrieg
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Unfortunately NRR, there isn't "one" study that shows this. Key word I used is generally.
For the most part if you want to lift the lid on a given OEM filter you need to dig for that specific maker. In general the OEM filters I have compared fair lower than their counterparts made by Purolator or Mobil1.
Now it should be noted that everything I have found in recent searches show that both the Toyota and Subaru OEM filters are quite good. Those two consistently stuck out from OEM sources. However if you take all the OEM filters from Astin-Martin to Yugo and rate them against the top aftermarket filters I'm sure you'll find that generally OEM filters are outperformed.
Here are some of the more detailed independent websites I am aware of if anybody wants to peruse them:
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http://people.msoe.edu/~yoderw/oilfilterstudy/oilfilterstudy.html
Oil Filters Revealed - MiniMopar Resources
The oil and filter debates will go on forever but one thing I do know (and live by) is that the Pure1 is consistently in the top 3 of the heap AND I can buy them for everything I own.
