Recent content by mphilleo

Fram built such a good mouse trap that they had to discontinue it and decontent its replacement.

If an individual has that much ferrous metal material circulating in their oiling system, there are likely serious problems developing, or already developed. Furthermore, there is a point of diminishing returns with something like that.

If you need that many magnets, you have bigger problems than oil and oil filtration.

I see someone likes to live dangerously...

That glue job looks like it belongs in the Louvre, framed on a wall, compared to most filters these days.

This reminds me of the modern automotive landscape of CUVs...about 5 different derivations of the same thing at slightly different price points. Pointless and crass. What a shameless cash grab, screw First Brands and their brands.

I just installed one on my Jeep Wrangler, transitioned from the Mobil 1 filter. After tearing that one apart, it's a pretty nice filter...just not $15-16 nice. With the MSL, I feel like I'm getting what I'm paying for. If high single digits and low double digits is our brave new world, I'll...

My newest filter is a Micogard Select. One of the things I like best about it are the holes. You don't have to wonder about them - they're either open or they aren't.

That makes sense. I figured there had to be a simple reason like this one.

If that's the case, how do they justify the price they're listing the Titanium at? The cool, black, anti-slip coating? :rolleyes:

Pour one out for the OG Wix...if it hasn't already leaked out the base plate.

I feel as though there must be a materials or manufacturing advantage to louvered center tubes. Because you know it's not going to be for the benefit of performance if costs is a factor. 😂 In my mind, if you're able to recycle the slugs from punching circular holes in the center tube, you'd save...

I don't think they make a wide array of filters - I checked.

You're not wrong. When I initially said it was interesting to read their conclusions, I meant it in a Jane Goodall observing chimpanzees in the wild sort of way.

I know that very few people are as much into lube filtration as we are, but maybe that context makes the findings in this article more interesting. Sometimes oil filter quality can be a little subjective, sometimes it's more concrete. Still, it's kind of interesting to read their conclusions...