Filters in Canada are expensive regardless and I only buy when they are on sale, I replaced this with a Fram Ultra. Will change and cut open in a year !
I have no idea! I thought it was weird too when I was looking at the filter but maybe it's part of the design. I was hoping someone from here would know.
I'd only but filters from ct if you have a wackload of ct money to spend. Went to the states recently and picked up a pureone filter for 5.99 tax in, can't even get the ctire branded filter for that price.
Here is the newer Motomaster oil filter 4967 cut open. It was on a corolla for ~4 months / barely 5k on Valvoline Conventional. Was harder to cut compared to a Purolator. Not bad but still expensive since a Purolator built Quaker state is only 1 dollar more and made in the us of a.
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That's interesting. I posted a purolator before and someone said dirty oil too. It has been running maxlife for a while now. The thing is this car doesn't see a lot of mileage. Oh the 5k is kilometres.
Here's some pictures of a honda fram a02 cut open. It was used for a little over 10 months ~5K with maxlife 5w30
The filter itself was pretty solid actually. Filter had a lot of oil left inside, the adbv is parker. Some of the blue chips is from the cutting.
A little gap
Originally Posted By: Rabbler
Try the new Motormaster (Canadian Tire house brand) filter with the Black printing.
They look to now be Purolator mfg vs Fram and are cheaper than the QS branded filters.
Compare them on the shelf!
i put one of the new ctire filters on and will cut it whenever it...